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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Concerned individuals should consult an experienced and trusted immigration law attorney about your situation to verify that what you are doing will be honored by authorities in your state. What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado? Will my children be adopted?

Child Welfare

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Human Services

Use of unregulated experts in family courts to be curbed following ‘parental alienation’ concerns

Community Care

MARCH 24, 2025

The PSA accredits a number of non-statutory registers, based on them having met a set of quality standards, with several of these covering counselling, therapy or psychology. The consultation runs until 6 June 2025.

Psychology

Psychology Consultation Counseling Clinic

SSW Alumni Spotlight: Barbie Nadal-Cristofaro, MSW

University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

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?

Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence Advocacy Administration Counseling

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

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

Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

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.

Adoption

Adoption Psychotherapy Counseling Therapist

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

JANUARY 26, 2024

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.

Foster Care

Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Counseling

Controlling the narrative: How the state of Washington is trying to censor the foster parent voice in court

Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

This form is the only voice foster parents have in the dependency process, since they are not parties to the case, and thus are not entitled to receive legal counsel, file motions, read pleadings, or speak in court unless called on by the judge.

Communication

Communication Foster Care Child Welfare Advocacy

AMHP and approved mental capacity professional training standards finalised

Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Social Work England has finalised training standards for approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) and the new role of approved mental capacity professional (AMCP) following consultation. AMHP and approved mental capacity professional training standards launched for consultation. Related articles.

Confidentiality

Confidentiality Therapist Consultation Mental Health

(CY) 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Key Provisions Impacting Clinical Social Workers

Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

clinical assessments, consultation, therapeutic care etc.) NASW agrees with the proposal to require Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) to use a service-level modifier for audio-only services for counseling and therapy. Making social workers independently reimbursable for the provision and delivery of pain management-related services (e.g.,

Medicare

Medicare Clinic Telehealth Social Worker

The middle-class white person’s guide to dealing with a child abuse allegation

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Would she call the suspicion “justifiable” were she, at this very moment, making sure the house was spotless in case of a surprise inspection from CPS – in between her mandatory “counseling” and “parent education” classes? This is a judgment call to quickly consult an attorney about. Two trips to the E.R. Emphasis added.]

Hospitals

Hospitals Child Welfare Interviewing Foster Care

What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Counsellor : They provide counselling and emotional support to individuals and families facing a wide range of challenges, including mental health issues, addiction, and crisis situations. You may also provide direct services, such as counselling or case management, to clients or their families.

Social Worker

Social Worker Treatment Planning Interventional Justice and Corrections

Three Questions to Improve Your Counseling Practice

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 31, 2025

These three questions provide the service provider an opportunity to learn about their impact and affect in the counseling process. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker.

Counseling

Counseling Private Practice Mental Health Therapist

You Asked, Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication?

Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

Provide therapy or counselling services It is quite common for people to confuse social workers with counsellors or therapists because some parts of their roles overlap however; they are very different. Social workers are not qualified to provide therapy or counselling services. Contact your registered GP surgery for an appointment.

Social Worker

Social Worker Treatment Planning Mental Health Interventional

10 Steps To Optimize Your Revenue Cycle Management

Relias

JUNE 1, 2023

This included prior authorizations, pre-registration, financial counseling, price estimates, and collections. This can reduce staff workload and improve collections efficiency,” said Andrew Hajde, CMPE, Director of Content and Consulting at MGMA. Centralized teams can cover more sites with the same resources.

Healthcare

Healthcare Administration Medicaid Hospitals

10 Steps To Optimize Your Revenue Cycle Management

Relias

JUNE 1, 2023

This included prior authorizations, pre-registration, financial counseling, price estimates, and collections. This can reduce staff workload and improve collections efficiency,” said Andrew Hajde, CMPE, Director of Content and Consulting at MGMA. Centralized teams can cover more sites with the same resources.

Healthcare

Healthcare Administration Medicaid Hospitals

Psychologist vs Social Worker: The Differences You Need to Know

Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

Common tasks that psychologists do include administering tests and assessments, conducting therapy sessions, developing treatment plans, researching and studying behavior, evaluating mental health programs and providing consultation services. Clinical social workers provide direct counseling to individuals, families, or groups.

Social Worker

Social Worker Psychology Mental Health Interventional

The New York Times rediscovers wrongful removal, class bias and racial bias in child welfare – and gets a lot right. But the story is marred by some glaring errors.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The story also notes how workers themselves favor something their top leadership opposes: a “Miranda warning” law requiring that parents be immediately informed of their rights not to speak to caseworkers and not to let them in without a court order, and to consult a lawyer.

Child Welfare

Child Welfare Welfare Administration Foster Care

Addressing the Unique Mental Health Needs of College Students

Counselor Toolbox podcast

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Summary - To thrive, students need access to services and programs of outreach, education, and prevention that: - Eliminate fragmentation and improving access to biopsychosocial services - Recognize patterns in campus life that suggest the presence of mental and behavioral health concerns among individual students, groups of students, or the campus (..)

Mental Health

Mental Health Psychology Counseling Consultation

Plan to change social housing rules will aid domestic abuse victims

The Guardian

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The plans, which are being put out to consultation, would see the so-called local connection test scrapped. In Australia, the national family violence counselling service is on 1800 737 732. In the UK, call the national domestic abuse helpline on 0808 2000 247, or visit Women’s Aid.

Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence Counseling Consultation Government

Parenting Teens – Accept and manage your role as consultant.

Gary Direnfeld

JULY 24, 2022

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.

Consultation

Consultation Private Practice Mental Health Counseling

Just because you don’t argue in front of the kids….

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Private Practice

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker

Counseling and Change

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 22, 2022

That is the objective of all counseling whether it is how one thinks, feels or behaves. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Counseling

Counseling Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker

Before Sending Your Kid to Counseling….

Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 16, 2022

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.

Counseling

Counseling Psychosocial Private Practice Mental Health

Couple Counseling? Maybe in time….

Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 23, 2023

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.

Counseling

Counseling Domestic Violence Therapist Private Practice

Connect to Your Kid

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 31, 2025

So much of what kids are sent to counseling for can be dealt with by that connection. Assuming you are taking your kids to counseling, it is likely the drive together that is really the therapeutic benefit. Don’t discuss school or the counseling. In fact you don’t have to discuss anything.

Counseling

Counseling Mental Health Private Practice Schools

Think Beyond Counseling for Your Teen

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

While you or someone else may think a particular teen needs counseling, it doesn’t mean it will be helpful. Counseling is one of those things that simply works best when attended on a voluntary basis by someone who self-identifies a need as well as a desire. Think beyond counseling. Looks good, does nothing.

Counseling

Counseling Private Practice Mental Health Communication

When you are looking for your third, fourth or more therapist….

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I would often decline such requests for couple counseling. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. For the latter, they may have any number of issues keeping them deadlocked.

Therapist

Therapist Private Practice Counseling Mental Health

Sexual Abuse – When asked to keep it secret….

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Self-harm

Self-harm Mental Health Private Practice Psychology

Just Before the Kids Come Home

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Private Practice

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker

Couple Counseling: Is It Safe?

Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 30, 2023

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.

Counseling

Counseling Domestic Violence Self-harm Mental Health

When Your Family is the Threat

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

It you are having trouble coping, do consider counseling. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Those who escape these toxic families may truly lose their relationships.

Psychology

Psychology Mental Health Private Practice Counseling

Child Behavior and Time with Parents

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Mental Health

Mental Health Private Practice Counseling Social Worker

Hop Over the Rabbit Hole

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 31, 2025

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Communication

Communication Mental Health Private Practice Counseling

Sometimes You Just Have to Accept It

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Mental Health

Mental Health Private Practice Counseling Social Worker

When Your Partner Sits Around Playing Video Games and You’re Carrying the Family

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This is where counseling comes in as well as a good consultation from a family law lawyer. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. As the gal finally seeks to separate, he seeks to claim child and/or spousal support seeking to maintain his lifestyle. You need this team.

Counseling

Counseling Private Practice Mental Health Consultation

Three-Hour Sessions? Sure!

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Private Practice

Private Practice Mental Health Therapist Counseling

Grief and The Holiday Season

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Mental Health

Mental Health Private Practice Counseling Social Worker

Counseling? His Turn, Her Turn

Gary Direnfeld

MAY 11, 2023

He went to counseling just as she wanted. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. He had to address his anger. He learned to take a break if conflict arose.

Counseling

Counseling Private Practice Mental Health Communication

Consider Yourself and Empath?

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Mental Health

Mental Health Private Practice Counseling Social Worker

Growing Up With a Difficult Parent

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The parent may blame the child and even seek for the child to attend counseling as a damaged individual whose damage is intrinsic to the child and not an outcome of the parent’s twisted parenting. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. I am available in person and by video conferencing.

Counseling

Counseling Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker

The Annual Christmas Concern

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Mental Health

Mental Health Private Practice Counseling Communication

Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work: What’s The Difference?

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Psychiatry

Psychiatry Psychology Mental Health Private Practice

Hooked on Video Games?

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Mental Health

Mental Health Schools Hospitals Private Practice

People Pleaser? You?

Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Mental Health

Mental Health Private Practice Counseling Social Worker

When the kid listens in without the parent knowing….

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Mental Health

Mental Health Anxiety Depression Private Practice

Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

Use of unregulated experts in family courts to be curbed following ‘parental alienation’ concerns

Webinars

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SSW Alumni Spotlight: Barbie Nadal-Cristofaro, MSW

Webinars

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

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.

Controlling the narrative: How the state of Washington is trying to censor the foster parent voice in court

AMHP and approved mental capacity professional training standards finalised

(CY) 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Key Provisions Impacting Clinical Social Workers

The middle-class white person’s guide to dealing with a child abuse allegation

What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Three Questions to Improve Your Counseling Practice

You Asked, Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication?

10 Steps To Optimize Your Revenue Cycle Management

10 Steps To Optimize Your Revenue Cycle Management

Psychologist vs Social Worker: The Differences You Need to Know

The New York Times rediscovers wrongful removal, class bias and racial bias in child welfare – and gets a lot right. But the story is marred by some glaring errors.

Addressing the Unique Mental Health Needs of College Students

Plan to change social housing rules will aid domestic abuse victims

Parenting Teens – Accept and manage your role as consultant.

Just because you don’t argue in front of the kids….

Counseling and Change

Before Sending Your Kid to Counseling….

Couple Counseling? Maybe in time….

Connect to Your Kid

Think Beyond Counseling for Your Teen

When you are looking for your third, fourth or more therapist….

Sexual Abuse – When asked to keep it secret….

Just Before the Kids Come Home

Couple Counseling: Is It Safe?

When Your Family is the Threat

Child Behavior and Time with Parents

Hop Over the Rabbit Hole

Sometimes You Just Have to Accept It

When Your Partner Sits Around Playing Video Games and You’re Carrying the Family

Three-Hour Sessions? Sure!

Grief and The Holiday Season

Counseling? His Turn, Her Turn

Consider Yourself and Empath?

Growing Up With a Difficult Parent

The Annual Christmas Concern

Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work: What’s The Difference?

Hooked on Video Games?

People Pleaser? You?

When the kid listens in without the parent knowing….

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