Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Walsh explores the role of social workers in mental health settings, such as hospitals, clinics, and community agencies. Many journal articles are available through university library databases or on the websites of professional associations such as the Community Care. Social Work in Mental Health Settings” by Kevin J.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This provision of law has never been enforced and is almost universally ignored. R ather than face clandestine drug testing and suspicion from medical professionals who are mandatory reporters, pregnant people stay away from prenatal care and giving birth in hospitals. It doesn’t have to be this way. Texas has largely done this.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Decades later, Stacy Torres, now a professor of sociology at the University of California, San Francisco, writes in Vital City that the wounds have not healed. CNN reports on how some hospitals finally are moving to put the needs of children first. I have a blog post on the case , with a link to the Register story.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. NPR and The Marshall Project exposed the practice in 2021.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Editor’s note: This post was written by Melanie Sage from the University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a university professor , I do not work with clients directly. times more likely to die of COVID , and up to 4x more likely to be hospitalized with COVID. She feels guilt.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

. ● Two big new studies, one in JAMA Open and one in Academic Pediatrics examine who gets drug tested in hospitals and who doesn’t. ProPublica has that part of the story ● ProPublica also spoke to to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced.

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