A Splintered Mind

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I joined the Midori Traveler’s Notebook (TN) club this past Summer. I missed the big blogging heyday about them around 2012 to 2015 when the Internet seem to explode over this nifty little notebook system, but I was all about digital back then. I loved my iPhone and didn’t feel a need to go analog. Recently, though, I noticed some artists doing inspiring things in their TNs, and I thought this could be the kick in the pants I needed to fit sketching back into my life.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Fleeing treatment is an understandable wish. Effective Neurodynamic Couples Therapy is often frightening and painful–sometimes horribly painful. Metabolizing historical feelings requires that they be relived precisely as intensely as they were originally experienced when first stored, along with the perceived sense of danger that was present in the original experience.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Combined Reports A team from UConn’s School of Social Work says a new two-year, $4.3 million contract with the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood expands on a six-year relationship with the state agency to provide significantly more resources for the evaluation and development of critical programs benefitting the state’s youngest residents. From assessing access to quality child care and current child care market rates to mapping resources in high poverty and low opportunity communities, the

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Community Care

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Councils are being given £1,125 each to meet new requirements to report on their use of agency social workers in children’s services. The Department for Education funding, which will be paid in October 2024, is designed to cover the burdens on English authorities of fulfilling a new legal duty to submit quarterly data to the DfE on each assignment carried out by an agency social worke

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Vital role looking after destitute children gave these women unusual degree of power for the time, say researchers In June 1697, at a sitting of the quarter session court in Preston, Lancashire, a widow called Alice Brewer submitted a petition in which she demanded to be paid her due. Brewer, described as “very poor, old and necessitous”, had been caring for 12 years for a “poor distressed child” called Anne Helme, which entitled her to a small annual payment from the local parish authorities.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Care proceedings are being completed more quickly in England and Wales, but their average duration still far exceeds the 26-week statutory target, official figures have shown. Cases where councils applied for a care or supervision orders that were completed in April to June 2024 took an average of 41.2 weeks, down from a recent high of 44.8 weeks in January to March 2023, when just a quarte

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The Child and Family Corp

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Key takeaways for caregivers Moral pride is the warm feeling you get after doing a good deed, such as helping someone or sharing. In our recent study of Canadian and Japanese children, we found that older children (nine- and 12-year-olds) felt more moral pride than younger children (six-year-olds). Compared to Japanese children, Canadian children were more likely to express moral pride following good deeds.

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