Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

You Asked, Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication? This is a very common question a lot of people ask in relation to the role of the social worker in health and social care. Social workers play an important role in promoting the health and wellbeing of people in the community.

Social Worker 52

Social Worker Treatment Planning Mental Health Interventional 52

Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

1 Although PTSD has commonly been associated with the military and veteran populations, it affects people of all ages, communities, gender, and social economic background. Social workers are the largest group of mental health providers in the United States and treatment of PTSD is one of their specialty areas. June 21, 2022.

Disorder 105

Disorder PTSD Military Mental Health 105

R.E.A.L. Social Workers

JANUARY 17, 2024

Welcome to the REAL Social Workers Online Magazine this is the place where we support and encourage social workers, like me, through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care. This is part of my Positive Psychology Toolbox. If you enjoy this post, please subscribe to the Stress Talk Newsletter.

CBT 52

CBT Self-harm Psychology Clinic 52

Relias

AUGUST 30, 2023

This has been especially true for psychology, where mental health has traditionally been seen as something wholly separate from physical health. This means that separate organs do not operate in a vacuum, and our psychological health cannot be completely separated from our physiological health.

Psychology 52

Psychology Healthcare Mental Health Case Management 52

Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Between 2019-21, researchers analysed the impact of DfE intervention in 24 authorities after they were rated inadequate by Ofsted, through interviews with leaders, managers, social workers, partners and government-appointed advisers, and an analysis of outcomes. Social workers urge inspection overhaul to enable more direct work.

Interventional 53

Interventional Consultation Social Worker Psychology 53

Community Care

AUGUST 16, 2023

We began to feel that the parents involved needed psychological treatment. At the same time, psychological assessments of parents in care proceedings almost always recommended psychological treatment. This exposed the significant disparity between the support provided to parents and what they required.

Psychotherapy 49

Psychotherapy Psychology Psychiatric Therapist 49

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The social worker understands that social situations often within families can give rise to unwanted behavior, feelings and attitudes. Those who seek to facilitate a bio-psycho-social approach can offer a more rounded approach resulting in a combination of treatments to address the various aspects of the problem.

Psychiatry 130

Psychiatry Psychology Mental Health Private Practice 130

Clinical Philosophy

MAY 1, 2021

So: I come to my therapist's consulting room but then, rather than stay in touch with my wish to know myself better and do the work of therapy, I regress and in effect say 'I want to be here but I don't want to do the work'. Being 'the adult in the room' is not, we might say, simply a matter of having a certain psychological maturity.

Psychotherapy 40

Psychotherapy Therapist Empathy Engagement 40

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

That can bring psychological and emotional harm. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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. Trigger warning.

Self-harm 130

Self-harm Mental Health Private Practice Psychology 130

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

It is at least psychologically abusive and where there is a financial and/or housing dependency then it is also financially abusive. Those who do escape tend to be psychologically healthier for it. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. “So you don’t want to be part of this family?”

Psychology 130

Psychology Mental Health Private Practice Counseling 130

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 3, 2024

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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. Are you following me on Facebook yet? If not, you are missing many more posts!

Mental Health 130

Mental Health Private Practice Counseling Social Worker 130

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There is a psychological process known as mystification of experience. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Private Practice 264

Private Practice Mental Health Psychology Counseling 264

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 31, 2025

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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. Let someone know what would be better for you. They just might oblige.

Mental Health 130

Mental Health Private Practice Counseling Social Worker 130

Gary Direnfeld

JUNE 9, 2024

Stopping these medications cold turkey can cause an adverse psychological reaction. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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.

Anxiety 173

Anxiety Depression Mental Health Private Practice 173

Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 2, 2022

While I found that program basic, I took a psychology course as an elective and fell in love with it. I graduated with a Specialized Honours BA in Psychology. I promised I would become a good social worker and never become a political scientist. It set the roots for the social worker I was to become.

Psychology 147

Psychology Mental Health Private Practice Schools 147

Gary Direnfeld

JULY 14, 2022

The reason it is important is because there are different vulnerabilities and different psychological processes involved depending on one’s background. So even through many of the management strategies are the same, how they feel and work for the individual may be colored their psychological profile. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

Psychology 147

Psychology Private Practice Disorder Mental Health 147

Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In attempting that, you inadvertently become emotionally and psychologically unsafe to your child. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters.

Private Practice 29

Private Practice Mental Health Psychology Counseling 29

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 18, 2022

That was my first lesson in psychology, long before taking any courses. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Private Practice 140

Private Practice Mental Health Psychology Counseling 140

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It’s beyond comprehensible to think that in doing so, they would let their own kids be psychologically and emotionally destroyed by their own actions. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. It’s hard to believe a former partner and coparent would so deliberately poison their kids against the other parent.

Mental Health 147

Mental Health Private Practice Counseling Psychology 147

Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 5, 2022

There I took an elective in psychology and with that applied as a mature student to York University. I took a job as a childcare worker in a group home and from there applied to a Masters program in social work. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker.

Rehabilitation 147

Rehabilitation Private Practice University Mental Health 147

Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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. Are you following me on Facebook yet? If not, you are missing many more posts!

Mental Health 147

Mental Health Paranoia Depression Private Practice 147

Gary Direnfeld

JUNE 9, 2024

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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. It’s a struggle of finding intimacy and validation yet never trusting it.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Disorder 147

Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 9, 2024

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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. If coparenting, worry only about managing what takes place in your home.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 147

Gary Direnfeld

JUNE 9, 2024

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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. You are burnt out. You still matter. You matter to them. They need you.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 147

Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 4, 2023

Such secrets perpetuate pain and abuse to others and cause further psychological harm to the person abused. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Just know, at your discretion, now as an adult, you don’t have to continue to protect your abuser. Now you do.

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Mental Health Psychology Counseling 113

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 8, 2023

However, if one’s own parents brought harm to your life for emotional and psychological abuse, let alone physical abuse or even other problems such as alcohol over-consumption, then it remains reasonable to be protective of one’s kids. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Mental Health Psychology Counseling 113

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 11, 2024

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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. If not, you are missing many more posts!

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 147

Gary Direnfeld

JUNE 12, 2024

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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. The sooner embraced, the sooner one get get on with the necessary tasks.

Mental Health 147

Mental Health Private Practice Counseling Therapist 147

Gary Direnfeld

JUNE 27, 2022

The time in-between allowed for some psychological adjustment to the diagnosis and surgery. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Telling all at once saved the challenge of multiple difficult conversations. Abject fear remained. Within a few weeks surgery was scheduled.

Recovery 147

Recovery Private Practice Mental Health Psychology 147

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 15, 2024

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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 like to think of it more as love in action. Positive action.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 147

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 20, 2022

Such a person exploiting a child is using the situation of the child to emotional and psychologically manipulate them for their own needs, not the child’s. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. The confusion can last well into adulthood. You were but a child.

Private Practice 100

Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Psychology 100

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, we are reviewing footage from Panorama with a view to prosecuting anyone who’s captured committing a crime.” ” The trust also says that clinical teams include a consultant psychiatrist, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists and social workers.

Mental Health 69

Mental Health Hospitals Clinic Patient Safety 69

Gary Direnfeld

JULY 24, 2022

That time allowed for my psychological adjustment to coronary heart disease. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. There was a lead up of about six weeks to surgery during which time the blockages were diagnosed and assessed. That did frighten me.

Recovery 100

Recovery Private Practice Mental Health Empathy 100

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Three workers said they were instructed not to allow youth to fall asleep throughout the night. Here’s how it worked: social workers at times coerced parents into signing [placement agreements that bypassed the courts], saying their children would be placed in foster homes far away if the documents were not signed. “I

Child Welfare 76

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Psychology 76

Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Between my undergraduate, specialized honours degree in psychology and my masters degree in social work, I have taken three courses in research as well as conducted an undergraduate thesis and graduate research paper. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker.

Private Practice 100

Private Practice Interventional Mental Health Psychology 100

Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 23, 2025

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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. Parenting will be crucial. It’s always been so.

Mental Health 130

Mental Health Private Practice Counseling Social Worker 130

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. 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 can live with my fixed mind. Not theirs. These days, fear rules. Not for me.

Private Practice 130

Private Practice Mental Health Diversity Counseling 130