Bipolar Bandit

MARCH 7, 2024

First, let me say it is not easy living with someone with bipolar disorder. Their severe depressions and highest of manic episodes can ruin relationships. Even people who love the person and have supported them for years, can eventually throw up their hands and be done. It is understandable because they have to watch out for their own mental health.

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Nnatasha Tracy

MARCH 7, 2024

I hate platitudes in general, but I especially hate platitudes when they're applied to mental illness. It's so condescending when people offer some simple piece of advice and tell you it will fix everything. It's disgustingly pious when people tell you you're looking at things or handling things the wrong way because they know of a rhyming couplet. Not only are platitudes unlikely to be helpful in general, I would suggest they are even less so for people with a mental illness (especially serious

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International Federation of Social Workers

MARCH 7, 2024

CONFERENCE ON ECOSOCIAL WORK June 13/14 2024 We are thrilled to invite you to the Conference on Ecosocial Work, a dynamic conference aimed at fostering collaboration, knowledge exchange, and innovation […]

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Bipolar Bandit

MARCH 7, 2024

First, let me say it is not easy living with someone with bipolar disorder. Their severe depressions and highest of manic episodes can ruin relationships. Even people who love the person and have supported them for years, can eventually throw up their hands and be done. It is understandable because they have to watch out for their own mental health.

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International Federation of Social Workers

MARCH 7, 2024

67th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) ONLINE Side Event: Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) with Hydromorphone in Austria – a new perspective?

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

By Courteney Stuart The COVID-19 pandemic cast a dark cloud across children’s lives, interrupting education and socialization. For the poorest families in the U.S., however, there was a silver lining. The unprecedented global crisis created the political will to implement long-called-for expansions of government benefits. The March 2020 passage of the American Rescue Plan expanded the child tax credit and created other financial cushions, sending money directly to the most vulnerable families fo

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The government is urging more councils and children’s trusts to test its planned five-year programme of support for newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) in children’s services. The Department for Education issued a second call for bids to trial the early career framework (ECF) today, after selecting eight organisations to do so last year.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. We will be speaking to key figures who have shaped the last 50 years in social work and those who will shape it in the years to come. Mark Allen is the founder and chairman of the Mark Allen Group , a publishing company which employs more than 500 staff and publishes more than 100 titles, including Community Care.

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