Community Care
APRIL 14, 2025
Regional adoption agencies (RAAs) and local authorities had lodged applications with the ASGSF – which is managed on the DfE’s behalf by consultancy Mott MacDonald – that had been put on hold pending a decision on the fund’s continuation. So there has to be an assessment process.
Community Care
APRIL 1, 2025
Concerns were also raised about the significant backlog of ASGSF cases that will need to be considered by consultancy Mott MacDonald – which administers the fund on behalf of the DfE – when applications reopen. In 2023-24, 16,970 therapy applications were approved for services, along with 2,718 for specialist assessments.
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Social Work Blog
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Psychotherapy with Crisis and Higher-Level Codes : NASW urges CMS to allow high-level services such as crisis psychotherapy to be furnished through audio-only. clinical assessments, consultation, therapeutic care etc.) By definition, a mental health crisis is urgent, and help is required as soon as possible.
Clinical Philosophy
MAY 1, 2021
It's from a recent blogpost by Jon Frederikson ; Frederikson is a particularly lucid and thoughtful exponent of ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy). And now the example. The first thing I want to note is that the projection of will is, in a sense, quietly abusive.
Community Care
JANUARY 10, 2023
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. The consultation runs until 20 March 2023. Registration to be removed for contracted counsellors.
Clinical Philosophy
APRIL 13, 2022
I don't know about you, but the reason I often make notes after psychotherapy sessions is because I need aides-memoires. I've about 18 patients - in my private psychotherapy practice - at any one time; most of them attend just once a week. These notes are locked in a drawer in my consulting room (which, naturally, is also locked).
Community Care
AUGUST 16, 2023
References Johnstone, L & Boyle, M with Cromby, J, Dillon, J, Harper, D, Kinderman, P, Longden, E, Pilgrim, D & Read, J (2018), The Power Threat Meaning Framework: Towards the identification of patterns of emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubled or troubling behaviour, as an alternative to functional psychiatric diagnosis , British (..)
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