The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Excessive advice-giving doesn’t belong in the therapy room. As a new social worker, you will need to resist the temptation a dozen times a day to pack clients full of your fresh therapy knowledge.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. This year’s local government pay deal has been agreed after the biggest union failed to gain a sufficient mandate to take effective strike action. UNISON said it had agreed to employers’ pay offer to staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for 2024-25 because of a relatively low turnout in its ballot for industrial action.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When anxiety forced Kathryn Faulke to give up her NHS job and became a care worker, she never thought she would enjoy it. Now, she has written a ‘love story’ of a book about the profession Care work, Kathryn Faulke thought as she scoured job adverts, “is a rubbish job. They’re not going to turn me down.” She had, after all, been a senior dietitian and worked for several years in the NHS – a career that had left her with anxiety and burnout.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social care services are likely to be badly affected by cuts across most English councils next year, a Local Government Association (LGA) has found. Almost four in five authorities (79%) said services for disabled or older adults were very or fairly likely to be negatively affected by savings in 2025-26, while 63% said the same about provision for children, young people and families.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Those nar-cissists. They’re not just former partners. Sometimes they are your parent. Growing up with a nar-cissist parent can leave you forever questioning your worth. You wonder how much crap you have to eat to be written into their good books. Thing is, that goal post is forever shifting and even if you scored a goal today, tomorrow you can again be yesterday’s news.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

● Dr. Sharon McDaniel, a pioneer in doing kinship foster care the right way, speaks out about the enormous harm of doing it the wrong way – through the subterfuge known as “hidden foster care.” In a commentary for The Imprint , she writes: I want to be clear that while I believe hidden foster care should be eradicated, the path to doing so is not to simply place all of those children in the formal foster care system instead.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When you think of factors that influence your health, you probably think of eating well, staying active and seeing a doctor when sick. But there are many more factors that impact our wellbeing beyond the actions we take for ourselves and our families. In fact, our health is greatly determined by the conditions in which we live. Health starts in homes, schools, workplaces and communities.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Some of us are late bloomers. I was. I dropped out of high school to sell shoes. It was a girlfriend at the time who convinced me to go to college and after one semester, I transfered to university as a mature student (over 21). Not having learned much in high school, I didn’t know how to write an essay. The first one was returned with a big bright red “D” and the comment that I have a serious writing problem.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If you are a people pleaser, there is a good chance you came from a family with a member, likely a parent, who was scary and erratic, if not outright abusive. That people pleasing then would have been a learned strategy to cope and manage living with that person. Now, as an adult, when faced with so much as a different point of view, you may find yourself giving in with the belief that it is up to you to keep the peace lest something bad happen.

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