Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JULY 14, 2021

Editor’s Note : This blog post is adapted from the Second Edition of the Social Media Toolkit for Social Work Field Educators. There are many reasons for social workers to have a personalized social media policy – to maintain boundaries, protect privacy and confidentiality, and model professional behavior. To be clear, I am not referring to the policy that your organization or institution might have, directing the faculty, staff, and students on when it is okay to use social media, b

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

For more than 50 years, KVC Health Systems has provided heart-centered service to children and families. These services strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. As KVC has grown from a volunteer effort to help children in Kansas City, Kansas, to a national leader with 35 locations in the U.S. and best practice training and consultation that stretches around the world, KVC’s presence in its home region of Kansas

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Shelter, Inc

JULY 22, 2021

Before completing his freshman year in college, Noah Mayo was making plans for this summer. He would continue his track workouts for his body, take two summer classes for his brain, but as he says, he “wanted to do something to help others and feed his soul.” Noah researched where his talents could be applied and heard from his grandmother about Shelter and the Boys’ Group Home.

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National Casa Gal

JULY 30, 2021

As we prepare for this new school year, it’s important to acknowledge the teachers, school administrators, parents and community members who are working hard to ensure that students can learn safely and make academic progress. Read More. The post Supporting children and youth in the new school year appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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International Federation of Social Workers

JULY 29, 2021

In acknowledgement of this year’s global social work theme Ubuntu, the Journal of International Social Work is providing free access to an article on ‘ubuntu and its potential impact on the international social work profession’. The article presents an in-depth description of Ubuntu and how it can strengthen social work theory and practice. It describes […].

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A Splintered Mind

JULY 4, 2021

Feedburner is being put to pasture by Google, so I have moved my Feedblitz email subscribers over to follow.it. Thank you for understanding. My original RSS URL is sixteen years old, back from when I called this blog THE Splintered Mind, long before I discovered that early blog indexers alphabetized their listings without ignoring determiners like "a" or "the".

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Clinical Philosophy

JULY 23, 2021

Does anxiety have a meaning? I now recognise that, when I started out training as a psychologist, a tacit message I then imbibed was that it doesn't. Here's how I learned to think of it: Anxiety is just an aversive experience, an unwanted condition. It has a certain physiological, autonomic, cognitive and sensory character. Its reduction should be the central aim of such treatment as is provided to those who present because of it.

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Social Service Workforce

JULY 15, 2021

Issues of violence, abuse and exploitation—including domestic violence, child marriage, child trafficking, sexual and gender-based violence, child labour, corporal punishment, peer to peer violence, online abuse and mental distress—continue to plague millions of

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Shelter, Inc

JULY 15, 2021

While every youth in our Emergency Group Homes has experienced a unique and difficult journey, they deserve happy summer memories like all kids. Unfortunately, childhood and summer end all too soon, and both should be enjoyed to the fullest. Thanks to our supportive community and incredible staff, this summer is jam-packed with fun in the sun as well as engaging activities, even on rainy days.

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International Federation of Social Workers

JULY 29, 2021

Deadline Extension: Submit your Abstract for IFSW Africa Region SWSD Conference before 15th August 2021? You are all welcomed for this great Hybrid international Regional Ubuntu social work conference hosted by the Rwanda National organisation of social workers and the IFSW Africa to be held in Kigali – Rwanda from 23rd to 26th Nov. 2021. […].

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

N.A.H

JULY 8, 2021

In this video, I provide an introductory talk on Critical Race Theory, touching on dominant narratives, the power of story and counter-narratives, and basic tenets of... The post An Introduction to Critical Race Theory appeared first on N.A.H.

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Therapist Development Center

JULY 5, 2021

Last month we discussed the differences between Bipolar Disorder 1 and 2 and offered an application question to test your knowledge on this topic. This month we’re back with a reasoning based question to help show how the same … Continued. The post ASWB Practice Question: Bipolar Disorder appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.

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Social Work.Career

JULY 4, 2021

This post is part of the monthly series, Free Mental Health Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 35 free webcasts that I could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health. To make it easier for you to find a webinar that is of interest […]. The post Free Mental Health Webinars, July 2021 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.

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A Splintered Mind

JULY 3, 2021

?My son fricken tried to commit suicide, so I had to drive all the way over there to deal with it. A few months ago, I pulled up to the one remaining branch in my area that US Bank allowed to be open during the pandemic and tentatively approached the entrance. I had banking to do, but they had bizarrely limited hours and, of course, they were closed.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JULY 22, 2021

NCMHCE Addiction Counselor Exam Review Biopsychosocial Assessment NCMHCE Addiction Counselor Exam Review Biopsychosocial Assessment

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International Federation of Social Workers

JULY 30, 2021

Download the Report The 2021 Joint Report of the European Commission and the Social Protection Committee on Long-Term Care is the most comprehensive overview to date of a policy area whose growing importance for our societies can no longer be overlooked. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the long-standing challenges of ensuring accessible, affordable and quality […].

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 27, 2021

"Where the person is already subject to this type of care and treatment regime, support is needed to help them move to a place they want to live, with the right support in place.". Some lessons learned but more progress needed. It’s been ten years since BBC Panorama exposed the Winterbourne View scandal. Here at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW England), we are taking action to make sure human rights abuses suffered by people with learning disabilities and autistic people are neve

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The Frontline

JULY 30, 2021

Kasey Thompson is a Frontline programme participant in London. Kasey’s experience of working with children and families throughout the pandemic has opened her eyes to new and creative ways of working. . I was six months into my first year on the Frontline programme when everything changed overnight. We were suddenly in a national lockdown due to COVID-19.

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Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.

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Health & Social Care Workforce

JULY 19, 2021

Richard Griffin MBE is Professor of Healthcare Management, King’s Business School. (740 words) Many years ago, I worked for an NHS Workforce Development Confederation (WDC), that had just been merged with a Strategic Health Authority (SHA).

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Irish Social Worker

JULY 12, 2021

In recent years, scientific endeavor has enabled us to produce a ‘picture’ of a black hole. An astronomical phenomenon that heretofore was thought to be purely theoretical in nature. We couldn’t see them, and debates raged as to whether or not they existed. What helped scientist to ‘discover’ them, and to eventually locate one and study it, was to look at how things interacted with them and around them; examining the ‘edges’ and building up a picture of

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JULY 22, 2021

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International Federation of Social Workers

JULY 30, 2021

IFSW AND UNRISD (UN Research Institute for Social Development) have invited The Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work (COSW) to be a formal partner in a new format world summit on ‘Co-building a new eco-social world: leaving no one behind‘ on 29 June to 2 July 2022. COSW responded enthusiastically and nominated David Jones to be […].

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Beautiful Voyager

JULY 11, 2021

Photo by Alesia Kazantceva. If you are, you’re in the minority. Summer is here, vaccination rate is on the rise and health safety restrictions are being lifted a little more. It feels like all human beings are starting to breathe and live again. What’s not to be happy about? It’s all good now, isn’t it? Aren’t we going back to “normal”? It’s not that simple.

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The Frontline

JULY 15, 2021

Emily Noble is a fellow and Frontline programme principle practice tutor. Through the Frontline Fellowship , she recently delivered a session to support social workers build their resilience and focus on self-care – at a critical time for those dealing with the consequences of the pandemic. I decided to deliver a session through the practice network because I wanted to support other social workers where separation between our personal home lives and the things we were seeing and hearing in our w

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Clinical Philosophy

JULY 12, 2021

for a conference on Loneliness in Philosophy and Psychology , Bentley University, July 12-15, 2021 Loneliness as felt want of sociality : We often hear that loneliness stands to company as, say, hunger stands to eating. That we’ve a basic human need for sociality, and that loneliness is our experience of the thwarting of this need’s fulfilment. This makes prima facie good sense.

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International Federation of Social Workers

JULY 14, 2021

IFSW has been working with a range of partners to build a global conversation on what local and global values, policies and practices are needed when we emerge out of the pandemic. Through these partnerships we have launched the Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind’ People’s Summit. This historic people’s summit will […].

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JULY 28, 2021

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JULY 28, 2021

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JULY 28, 2021

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JULY 21, 2021

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JULY 21, 2021

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JULY 21, 2021

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