Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

SAMHSA defines recovery as a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives and strive to reach their full potential. Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 27, 2023

The role of the social worker involves engaging with people at points of crisis or need. The emotion wheel comes in handy for social workers to help manage and work through difficult emotions. An understanding of the emotion wheel is useful for helping social workers and clients communicate their emotions better.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

That can bring psychological and emotional harm. That injury can bring harm to self-worth, dignity, trust, security, faith. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Trigger warning. This post discusses sexual abuse. —— Sexual abuse. It shouldn’t happen. For some, it does. There can be worse.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

This training is required for all mandated reporters, who include both professionals (doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, etc.) I had taken the training several times in the past–first for my work as a social worker with CFSA and later as a mentor to a foster youth. and volunteers who work with children.

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s not uncommon for me to decline a request for couple counseling. Risk indicators includes screaming, name calling, breaking of objects, hitting, pushing, shoving, choking, threatening harm, abuse of pets, limiting access to resources, police or child protection agency involvement. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 1, 2022

They flee those conditions that being harm to self and others within the home. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Some young people don’t leave home.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 25, 2023

She thought him self-centered. She saw how speaking up brought harm to her mother. As scary as the thought of counseling was, for them it worked. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. He thought her a complainer. He hailed from a family where dad abandoned him and his mother, when he was an infant.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 8, 2022

This only increases the likelihood of further conflict as well as emotional harm to the children. 6) Consider counseling. If individually, the purpose can be how to manage yourself under pressure and how to bring your better self to the negotiating table. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 4, 2023

The learning for some is the closer you get intimately, the greater the risk of harm and/or betrayal. Just be open to self-examination. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 21, 2022

That may mean threats of violence, destruction of property, self-harm, suicidal behavior. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. It will carry risks no matter what.

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Gary Direnfeld

MAY 17, 2022

The more you seek to set expectations, the more challenging the behavior, up to threats of violence, destruction of property, self harm, suicidal gestures. Counseling is often sought for the child. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker.

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Counseling Self-harm Private Practice Mental Health 147

Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 15, 2022

Apart from the potential harms as noted, there is also those who use the substance to self-medicate for any number of physical or mental issues. So despite the availability, mythology and false information, there remain significant potential harms. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 22, 2021

If from early on, you experienced trauma and were poorly supported, it may skew your set-point for self-protection. As you now take care of yourself, set boundaries and risk losing those relationships now understood as harmful and/or exploitive, you take charge of your self-worth and elevate it. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. This scholarship, created by Mary and her late husband, Raymond, will provide financial support to a student enrolled in the Bachelor of Social Work program.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

I was self-employed and wondered if this hiatus would have an effect on my income and reputation. Who wanted a social media and marketing consultant who’d spent time in a mental hospital? I’ve had worsening fantasies of harming or killing myself and I haven’t been able to get rid of them. I’m self-employed,” I started.

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Those were always they whom I assessed as having been harmful to their children or the situation. As a social worker (retired), it terrifies me. However those with horrible self-interest and greed are leading. After a career in social work, I believe it matters now more than ever. I settled with my regulatory body.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. -- Based on her extensive research Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The program, first adopted in Nassau County on Long Island in New York, redacts all race and race-related factors from the dossiers used by social workers and supervisors in determining child welfare cases. That makes the computer-generated risk score more like a self-fulfilling prophecy than an actual prediction.

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 5, 2025

No surprise, it was predominantly reflections on his self-perceived greatness. There were human props, those persons Trump pointed out that helped feed his narrative that others either love him, or suffered egregious harm or loss due to the previous president. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

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