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DfE proposes law change to improve adults’ access to adoption therapy

Community Care

The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling. The Department for Education is consulting on removing the requirement for counsellors providing adoption-related therapy to adults to register with Ofsted as adoption support agencies.

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SSW Alumni Spotlight: Barbie Nadal-Cristofaro, MSW

University of Connecticut

I am also a school social worker for Hartford Public Schools and I run a small business, ‘Ends2meet LLC’, which creates awareness on poverty and provides people with basic needs including counseling. What are your favorite hobbies?

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Backers of a bill that tries to legitimize hidden foster care in Virginia say it creates guardrails. On the contrary; it sends the rights of children and families careening off a cliff.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

You could fight us in court, where you’re entitled to free legal counsel if you’re indigent, where federal law requires us to make reasonable efforts to keep your family together and where an actual judge decides if we can take your children away. The bill says families must be notified of their right to consult a lawyer.

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Parenting Teens – Accept and manage your role as consultant.

Gary Direnfeld

The teen increasingly moves from seeing and accepting the patent as boss to seeing them more and more as a consultant. As a consultant, the teen takes the expectations of the parent under advisement and then knowing or unknowingly to the parent, makes their own decisions. That is simply part of the growing up process.

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Couple Counseling? Maybe in time….

Gary Direnfeld

I recently declined two requests for couple counseling. Couple counseling can be an intense setting where issues are laid bare. Interestingly, in both cases the callers were prepared to continue with couple counseling despite their disclosures of untoward behavior. I suggested individual counseling in both cases.

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Before Sending Your Kid to Counseling….

Gary Direnfeld

While I am pleased so many parents value counseling and want it for their kids, do know that it is not always helpful and indeed, can be harmful. Many kids interpret counseling as them having done something bad for which they must now talk to someone. Counseling in those situations won’t affect the cause.

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Couple Counseling: Is It Safe?

Gary Direnfeld

It’s not uncommon for me to decline a request for couple counseling. Couple counseling can be an intense experience. When concerns are evident about the safety and integrity of couple counseling, individual counseling may be required to address the areas of concern to prepare the persons for couple counseling.