Social Work Blog

JANUARY 6, 2023

Here are some of the articles in this issue: Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions: A Call for Disability Justice in Social Work. Despite decades of advocacy, Disabled people continue to experience ableism—such as inaccessibility, stigma, and exclusion—in all realms of social work. Quiet Quitting. What is Quiet Quitting?

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Disability Code of Ethics Social Worker Advocacy 115

Social Work Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

While the molecular model of SCD has led to advances in medical management, its reductionism obfuscates the sociopolitical dimensions of the condition, affording little attention to the racialized, gendered, classed, and disabling disparities faced by people with SCD.

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Disability Healthcare Disorder University 91

Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Social workers across practice settings provide services to individuals, including pregnant people, who are consuming alcohol at risky levels. FASDs represent a range of behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities across the lifespan, and might affect up to 5% of school children nationwide.

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Disorder Social Worker Interventional Disability 111

Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

Social workers could form part of neighbourhood-based multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) providing support for people with complex health and social care needs. As in previous years, some of this NHS money must be used to fund adult social care, with the DHSC stipulating that this component increase by at least 3.9%

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Social Worker Hospitals Rehabilitation Disability 39

Social Work Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

The obstacles and stresses that children with developmental disabilities and their families face can become overwhelming. Before exploring how social workers can help neurodiverse children and their families, it’s important to understand their unique struggles. By Dinah Wisenberg Brin.

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Disability Depression Anxiety Social Worker 98

The New Social Worker

MAY 18, 2022

There are five things social workers can do today to be better intersectional practitioners in support of disabled people in the Asian American community. They center around the need for social workers to be reflective and reflexive practitioners.

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Disability Social Worker 98

Community Care

JANUARY 2, 2025

Social workers in leadership roles have been recognised in the 2025 New Year Honours list. They include a director of children’s services (DCS) who led his authority to two consecutive outstanding ratings and a head of service who has championed the voting rights of people with learning disabilities.

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Disability Social Worker Adoption University 53

Social Work Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

President Biden has announced his intent to appoint social worker Mia Ives-Rublee, MSW, to his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Ives-Rublee is currently director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress. Mia Ives-Rublee.

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Social Worker Administration Disability University 98

Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 6, 2022

The parents were poor, disabled and unable to work. Sure they had disability support payments, but it barely covered basic needs. His parents although disabled, were still caring. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I left him alone. This was poverty.

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Disability Private Practice Mental Health Counseling 182

Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Social workers dedicate their lives to helping others, including some of the most vulnerable people in our society. However, research shows members of the social work profession are more likely to experience work-related stress, burnout, and a lower quality of life compared to other professions and the general population.

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Social Worker Self-harm Child Welfare Communication 111

Social Work Haven

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This personal statement will suit social work students who will soon qualify as social workers, and may want to look into applying for a Newly Qualified Social Worker role within children services. I recognise that there may be a power imbalance between social workers and service users.

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Social Worker Mental Health Self-harm Interventional 97

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You asked, what are the 10 roles of social workers ? While I can provide a list of 10 common roles of social workers, it’s important to note that our roles often go beyond these. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Interventional Justice and Corrections 95

Social Work Blog

MAY 10, 2022

However, RJ can also be understood as a trauma-informed mental health intervention allowing perpetrators, who have frequently been victims of past trauma, to regain a sense of voice and control, and to maintain social connection within their community. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership.

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Schools Social Worker Self-harm LMSW 95

Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

A clutch of social workers have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours list, announced this week. The recipients included a past and present principal social worker (PSW), the co-founder of the secure base model of therapeutic caregiving and a retired practitioner who used to support Holocaust survivors.

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Social Worker Disability Foster Care Adoption 66

Community Care

JUNE 13, 2024

A third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties, research has found. However, in most cases, parents’ conditions were only identified at the court stage, in part because social workers lacked the time and training to do so.

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Disability Interviewing Social Worker Communication 61

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 28, 2022

This outcome further disables the child come adulthood and also financially burdens society. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. It is so short-sighted. Next election, please vote “ABC,” Anyone But Conservative. Are you following me on Facebook yet?

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Private Practice Mental Health Administration Counseling 190

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 6, 2023

Education Resource- International Perspectives of Disability video Here is a video from social work day prepared by various student/intern at the UN NY and participated in the Global Student Conference held on April 2, 2023. The video is about the different perspectives of disability around the world.

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Disability University Social Worker Social Services 59

Community Care

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The self-reported rate of disability among care leavers is double that recorded by councils, research has found. Meanwhile, recorded disability rates among children in care and care leavers differ widely between local authorities, according to the report, published this week by Coram Voice.

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Disability Advocacy Government Mental Health 60

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+. But how has this increase in coverage had a positive impact on addressing the social determinants of health?

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

A former Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has been appointed chief social worker for adults. Sarah McClinton will succeed Lyn Romeo in January 2025 , a year after the longstanding chief left the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) position.

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Social Worker Mental Health Disability Government 57

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 21, 2022

The issue is coming to terms with a likely mental illness that is severe and disabling or alternatively, so much enabling with little accountability since early childhood that this person truly hasn’t learned to cope and manage independently. Also discussed is helping them apply for long term social supports.

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Self-harm Hospitals Disability Private Practice 147

Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Champions of asylum-seeking children and anti-racist practice, respectively, were among social workers recognised in the New Year Honours. Children’s practitioner Kirstie Baughan and adult safeguarding lead Shabnam Ahmed were garlanded in the annual list, alongside chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler.

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Social Worker Disability Foster Care Government 58

Social Work Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are also advocating on behalf of clinical social workers with key federal regulatory agencies and other stakeholders. If you reviewed our December 21 post, you may also find it helpful to review this one. We are continuing to closely monitor this dynamic policy area so we can continue to provide updates to our members.

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Clinic Social Worker Self-harm Psychotherapy 98

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 25, 2022

One of the best pieces of advice I got as a new adjunct instructor was to stick to the role – that is, the job of an adjunct instructor is to focus on helping students to learn the course content, not being their social worker. College students have needs like everyone else – mental health concerns, food insecurity, etc.

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Communication Counseling Disability Mental Health 217

Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2024

. — The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, American Psychiatric Association, National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Association for Rural Mental Health, and National Association of Social Workers on June 28 released the following statement responding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v.

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Mental Health Psychiatric Disability Interventional 105

Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Increasing numbers of children’s agency social workers are newly qualified, amid worsening staff shortages and rising demand, directors have warned. increase in referrals to children’s social care – in part, the result of the removal of lockdown restrictions – and a 9.6%

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Social Worker Disability 63

The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Attention to oral health care has implications for preventing chronic disease and disability, improving mental health, and reducing health care costs. Including a focus on oral health by social workers is consistent with social work's mission.

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Disability Mental Health Social Worker 97

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 11, 2021

Hannah is interning with iHeartTech , where she is working on several projects that involve technology use in social work. The opportunity to support the work of SWVirtualPal, a global community of social workers, was appealing, especially as someone new to the field.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Councils are losing ground to the NHS in the competition for social workers because of their different pay setting arrangements, the Local Government Association has warned. NHS social workers in England have received a 5.5% For a social worker in outer London on the minimum of point 30 (£40,833), it is worth 3.6%.

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Social Worker Government Administration Disability 60

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. They encourage social workers to share these on their social media networks.

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Schools Disorder Disability Social Worker 98

Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week. ”

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Social Worker Disability Schools Communication 56

Social Work Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Social workers can help women prioritize their health by making conversations about alcohol use part of routine practice. As providers of mental and behavioral health services in a broad range of settings, social workers play a pivotal role in preventing risky drinking among women, including any alcohol use during pregnancy.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The government will review the local authority designated officer (LADO) role after an inquiry into the abuse of disabled children identified “major failings” in relation to the function. ” Urgent actions .

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Disability Schools Government Communication 60

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 24, 2022

I wonder about a “nonverbal learning disability.” I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is 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.

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Disorder Mental Health Private Practice Counseling 162

Social Work Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Social workers have a long tradition of social justice and political advocacy – to include working to expand and protect voting rights and promote voter registration. If passed, such bills will have sweeping impacts on communities of color, students, veterans, LGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, and older adults.

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Code of Ethics Advocacy Social Worker Disability 105

Community Care

APRIL 20, 2023

Councils should have a bigger role monitoring local residential settings in their areas to better protect disabled children, an inquiry into the abuse of children in three services has concluded. “These recommendations set out a roadmap to more humane treatment of these children.

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Disability Advocacy Government Communication 52

Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Social workers have been freed up to spend more time with children after council investment led to a “significant reduction” in caseloads, Ofsted has found. Department for Education (DfE) figures show that Walsall’s agency social worker rate halved from 30.5% in September 2017 to 14.8% in 2018 to 13.4 Related articles.

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