Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

may have fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a range of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities that can occur in a baby exposed to alcohol before birth. People with FASDs may be at high risk for school challenges, criminal justice issues, substance use disorders, and mental health disorders.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The government said the Mental Health Bill would tackle racial discrimination in care, end the inappropriate detention of people with a learning disability and autistic people and give patients a greater say in decisions over their care.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A review into the “complex and fragmented” social care legal framework for disabled children has opened. The DfE’s objectives for the review are: Resolving the patchwork of legislation that currently governs social care for disabled children.

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Community Care

APRIL 30, 2024

The government has proposed overhauling a key disability benefit in the face of its “spiralling” caseload and costs, in a move labelled “dangerous” and “reckless” by charities. It was introduced in 2013 to replace disability living allowance (DLA) for people of working age. What is PIP?

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1992 after I faced disciplinary action while a graduate counseling student because I had disabling symptoms of psychosis. In 2016, I started receiving disability benefits for bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 24, 2022

I wonder about a “nonverbal learning disability.” ” While I am no psychologist, kids have their “tells” that can suggest a disorder. A nonverbal learning disorder is about difficulty reading social/emotional cues. The child was almost five. Acting out was an issue.

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Community Care

APRIL 21, 2023

The ‘outdated’ legal framework on social care for disabled children in England will be reviewed with a view to making it fairer and more effective. To improve how the law on social care for disabled children fits in with the law relating to children’s social care more broadly.

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Community Care

JUNE 13, 2024

A third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties, research has found. They also interviewed 42 social care professionals, 17 lawyers and four mothers with learning disabilities or learning difficulties who had experience of proceedings.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The Hackneys and their lawyer suspect that the algorithm, and the humans who may be slavishly following it, discriminated against them because of disabilities. As the ABA Journal story explains: Lauren Hackney has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder that can cause memory loss, and Andrew Hackney has some resultant damage from a stroke.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

These vague, punitive, and intensely subjective laws have been vehicles for channeling students—disproportionately Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) students and students with disabilities – into the criminal system. That student was then arrested for speaking out against the officer’s misconduct.

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Michigan Social Work

AUGUST 9, 2022

Associate Professor Matthew Smith created role-playing job interview training that helps people with autism and other disabilities find employment. Each practice interview is unique and a real-time coach provides ongoing feedback.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

How can you help your clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who also experience seizures? However, some people experience multiple seizures and are diagnosed with a seizure disorder. Seizure disorder, also called epilepsy, is a developmental disability.

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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder? About six months later, after the disorder had progressed, he revised his diagnosis to rapid cycling bipolar I. A: It was 2008; I was 51 and menopausal. My husband, Rob, and I have 5 kids.)

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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Nnatasha Tracy

DECEMBER 1, 2021

These kinds of hygiene tasks are just too hard for some people disabled with serious mental illnesses. Some people have come to me in confidence and said that they can't brush their teeth and it's causing major dental problems. Other people have said, in hushed tones, that they can't do their laundry so they don't leave their houses.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Those who are pregnant or can become pregnant also risk alcohol-exposed pregnancy and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a range of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities that may affect up to 1 in 20 school children nationwide.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

It will produce a draft bill designed to reduce the number of detentions, tackle longstanding racial disparities in the use of compulsory powers and end the detention of people on the sole grounds of them being autistic or having learning disabilities. They would have to have a co-occurring mental health condition.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

Helping clients discuss their alcohol use can also reduce the risk of prenatal alcohol exposure, a leading preventable cause of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Here are some common questions and answers that can help you discuss alcohol with clients.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Alcohol-exposed pregnancies may also lead to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a range of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities that affects an estimated 2-5% of schoolchildren in the U.S.

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University of Connecticut

JUNE 1, 2022

Addressing the challenges that families face today, including socio-economic disparities, racism, substance misuse and behavioral health disorders, requires an evidence-informed approach that is grounded in social change through the lens of advancing equity. Jody Levison-Johnson, president and CEO of Social Current.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1992 after I faced disciplinary action while a graduate counseling student because I had disabling symptoms of psychosis. In 2016, I started receiving disability benefits for bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder.

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Relias

MARCH 25, 2025

Mental health challenges : Women Veterans experience higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and military sexual trauma (MST) compared to their male counterparts. Although it has been improving, disparities still exist , making it harder for many to access treatment and financial support.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

Helping clients discuss their alcohol use can also reduce the risk of prenatal alcohol exposure, a leading preventable cause of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Here are some common questions and answers that can help you discuss alcohol with clients.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

If you work with clients who live with substance use disorders (SUDs) , understanding the stages of addiction can help you guide them on their path to recovery. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) defines addiction as: “A chronic, relapsing disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use despite adverse consequences.”

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 17, 2023

include youth in the welfare or juvenile justice system, runaway and homeless youth, undocumented immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, and people with substance use disorder. According to the White House, the people most vulnerable to human trafficking in the U.S.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Due to gender differences in body structure and chemistry, women experience more severe health risks from drinking compared to men, including blackouts , liver disease , faster progression of alcohol use disorder , and certain cancers – even when they consume less alcohol.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Room: 2208 Presentation : A Comparison of Religious and Spiritual Beliefs Among Latinx Parents of Children with Disabilities Author(s) : Mogro-Wilson, C. & Room: 2207 Presentation : The Implementation of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Recovery Residences: Theoretical Framework Author : Nichols, C. & Valenzuela, F.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Since then, this sweeping, groundbreaking law has improved the health of all Americans, including children, women and families, men, older adults, communities of color, those with disabilities, and those who are LGBTQI+.

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Relias

AUGUST 30, 2024

Social isolation due to a disability is an all-too-common occurrence. Myriad social forces create an environment in which individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are unable to connect with their peers. This can have lasting and severe consequences for their holistic health.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The reforms were designed to reduce the use of detention and CTOs, tackle their disproportionate impact on black people and end the inappropriate, and often lengthy, detention of autistic people and those with learning disabilities.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

Learning disabilities and autism The draft bill aims to strengthen safeguards for those with learning disabilities and autistic people. The draft bill would also remove learning disabilities and autism as conditions for which an individual could be detained for treatment under section 3 of the MHA.

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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder? It only took a couple of weeks for them to refer me to a psychiatrist who diagnosed bipolar II and prescribed medicines used often in bipolar disorder. A: It was 2008; I was 51 and menopausal.

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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder? It only took a couple of weeks for them to refer me to a psychiatrist who diagnosed bipolar II and prescribed medicines used often in bipolar disorder. A: It was 2008; I was 51 and menopausal.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2022

A London borough has agreed to pay £2,500 to a disabled boy and his adoptive mother after issuing care proceedings on “incomplete and flawed information”. On two occasions in 2016 and 2017, Richmond council refused to pay for continued therapeutic work for Ms X and Y, that had been recommended by a multi-disciplinary assessment.

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Shelter, Inc

MARCH 13, 2023

Shelter is excited to receive the BHI funding,” says Shelter’s executive director Carina Santa Maria, “ as our clients are youths in crisis who are historically under-served, and we believe everyone has the right the quality mental health care.”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

of a set of 11 indicators of need or risk, including mental health issues, disability, self-harm or going missing. The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (Nuffield FJO) found that children had, on average, 4.2 The findings came in an analysis of the first two months of applications to a national DoL court set up in July 2022.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This high rate of comorbidity in this population can pose serious challenges to direct support professionals (DSPs) and others working the intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) field. Prevalent comorbidities among those with autism ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism often co-occur.

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