Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Mattel has honored another one of the NASW Social Work Pioneers ®, Wilma Mankiller, by issuing a Barbie doll inspired by her. Mankiller’s father was Cherokee and she developed a deep appreciation for her heritage. Mankiller (1945-2010) became the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation and helped create the office of Indian Justice within the U.S.

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Nnatasha Tracy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I have spent years of my life with bipolar medication not working -- or, at least, bipolar medication not working to the extent that one would want. I know this isn't the common refrain around medication -- the common refrain being, take bipolar medication and get better -- but it is a reality that many of us live with. So, the question is, what do you do when the bipolar medication isn't working?

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Relias

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health (OMH) reported that 42.1% of citizens identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native relied on Medicaid or other public health insurance, and 14.9% had no coverage at all. Compared to non-Hispanic white individuals in the U.S. — with 34.3% on Medicaid or public health insurance and only 6.3% without coverage — Native American healthcare disparities clearly still exist despite efforts to eradicate them.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

An “exceptional experience for every child, everywhere, every time”: that is the overriding objective that Cafcass has set itself in its new three-year strategy, launched yesterday. The goal would be challenging at the best of times. Cafcass’s workload is driven significantly by factors outside of its control, including parental decisions to settle questions about their children’s future through the courts and councils issuing care proceedings when children are experienci

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Most of the time most of us therapists work as hard as we can to keep a treatment going, knowing that attempts to derail therapy have many meanings that can be explored and understood. I know that I have always been extremely reluctant to “give up.” However, in this post we will be looking at the few circumstances that we may encounter during our careers in which accepting derailing attempts is the only course of action the couple therapist can take.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

"Many providers have jumped at the chance to access the funding and support available and are positive about the opportunities technology opens up to improve the ways they work." [Image created by freepik.com ] Building momentum It’s been 18 months since the Digitising Social Care programme began, delivering the three year £150 million investment in digitally transforming adult social care, set out in the 2021 white paper, People at the Heart of Care.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

National Audit Office says political chaos has delayed proposed measures to improve recruitment in England The government has delayed several key reforms to social care staffing in England due to political chaos caused by the collapse of the Boris Johnson and Liz Truss governments and a Whitehall recruitment freeze, it has emerged. Work to create new training places and develop the low-paid care workforce was supposed to start in September but has been delayed by at least six months.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A new class of accommodation for 16- and 17-year-olds is devoid of day-to-day care and consistent adult supervision, writes Carolyne Willow A judge is rightly astonished that a 16-year-old boy was sent to live in a series of unregulated placements across the country by his “corporate parent” ( Coventry council used Airbnbs to house ‘vulnerable’ teenage boy accused of rape, 2 November ).

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