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Breaking Down Mental Health Terms: What Is Self-Stigma?

My Brains Not Broken

I was writing a post a few weeks ago when I ended up using a term I rarely think about: self-stigma. It’s not that it’s a foreign concept to me, but I don’t think I’m very comfortable using the term or understanding it well when it is used. That’s why I decided to do a little research to learn about self-stigma, how it shows up in our lives and how we can deal with it.

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Conversations on Social Work Careers: Health Social Work With Donna Shanor

The New Social Worker

In this episode of Conversations on Social Work Careers, Jennifer Luna, MSSW, interviews Donna Shanor, LCSW-S, LCDC, a trailblazer in the field of health social work.

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International Summer School: “Gender and Leadership: Social Work Education in Southeast Europe”

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

International Summer School: “Gender and Leadership: Social Work Education in Southeast Europe”. 5– 9 September 2022, University of Prishtina. The first edition of the Summer School “Gender and Leadership: Social Work Education in Southeast Europe”, an undertaking of the Southeast Women’s Academic Leadership Network , comprised of social work scholars and educators from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Slovenia, and the US, hosted by the Un

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Learn the Facts About Dementia and How You Can Help

Social Work Blog

The belief that dementia is a normal part of the aging process is familiar. But it is not true. “It is a common misconception in society that it is something we should all expect and something that happens to almost everybody,” says Natalia Shtompel, PhD, MSW. “But it’s not the case.”. Dementia is not a normal part of aging, she says. It is a disease that is linked with neuropathology in the brain.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Getting to Know Ourselves Better

My Brains Not Broken

Getting to know ourselves is a lifelong journey – full of twists, turns, surprises and disappointments. What doesn’t matter to us one year could be monumentally important the next, and so on and so forth throughout our lives. I used to think that learning new things about myself was more cinematic. Time would slow down, and my moment of clarity would spring forward.

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Shelter Partners With Let It Be Us for Emergency Foster Care Program

Shelter, Inc

Shelter is proud to announce a $2,000,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to partner with Let It Be Us for a new Emergency Foster Care Program. Being removed from their home, for whatever reason, is a traumatic time for a young person, and having a soft place to land is critical. However, it may take days or even weeks to match the child with the right foster home.

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No One Would Want Me If They Knew the Real Disabled Me

Nnatasha Tracy

I have thought that no one would want me if they knew the real me for, oh, my whole life. It's not because I'm an ax-murderer or puppy-hater or anything; it's just because I'm me, and "me" is very messy, indeed. The inner life of a bipolar can be torture. And then there's whatever Natasha has to offer on top of it. And then there's Ehler's-Danlos. And then there's fibromyalgia.

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Book Review: Conscious Service—Ten Ways To Reclaim Your Calling, Move Beyond Burnout, and Make a Difference Without Sacrificing Yourself

The New Social Worker

Book Review of Conscious Service—Ten Ways To Reclaim Your Calling, Move Beyond Burnout, and Make a Difference Without Sacrificing Yourself

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Sept. 14, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? The family police are always finding new ways to dress up their crusade to tear apart more families in pseudo-science. As soon as one fad – predictive analytics – is debunked, they come up with another: taking “health terrorism” – extrapolating from horror stories to justify more removal of children – and slapping a more acceptable name on it: “safety science.

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CMS Creates Additional Place of Service Code for Telehealth

Social Work Blog

Following a recent update from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), NASW has received multiple inquiries regarding telehealth place of service codes (POS) for Medicare, Medicaid and private health insurance companies. A blog post written by NASW Senior Practice Associate Denise Johnson, CMS Creates Additional Place of Service Code for Telehealth , clarifies what POS codes clinical social workers should use when providing telehealth services.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

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.

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60 Mental Health Quotes #13

Bipolar Bandit

For More Quotes: 50 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#1). 65 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#2). 35 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#3). 45 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#4). 25 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#5). 30 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#6). 3 0 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire Part 7. 30 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire Part 8.

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Helping Schools Motivate Parents to Participate in their Child’s Autism Education Plan

Relias

As a human services professional or educator, you spend a lot of time devising a great autism education plan for each of the children you care for. For these plans to prove as effective as possible, you need to make sure that the child’s parents agree with it and practice it a home. To learn how to do this, we spoke with Cheryl N. Engel, Ph.D.

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Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month

University of Connecticut

From the Desk of Dean Heller Dear Colleagues, Thursday, September 15, is the start of Hispanic Heritage Month. This annual event celebrates the many diverse cultures and histories of Hispanic and Latinx/a/o communities. At the School of Social Work, we are pleased to highlight the achievements and contributions of these communities to our country and world.

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Edith Lewis Receives 2022 Alexis J. Walker Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council on Family Relations

Michigan Social Work

Professor Emerita Edith Lewis has been named the 2022 Alexis J. Walker Lifetime Achievement awardee. The award recognizes her decades of contributions to feminist scholarship, teaching and service and is sponsored by the Feminism and Family Science Section of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Lewis will give a plenary address at the 2023 NCFR conference.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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60 Mental Health Quotes #13

Bipolar Bandit

For More Quotes: (Clickable even though there is no line underneath) 50 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#1) 65 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#2) 35 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#3) 45 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#4) 25 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#5) 30 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#6) 3 0 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire Part 7 30 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire Part 8 Mental Health Quotes Part #9 60 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire, Encourage, or Educate #

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ASWB Exam Prep: Gestalt Therapy

Therapist Development Center

One of the challenges of the ASWB LMSW and LCSW exams are the breadth of content that can be tested. One particularly dense area of content are the many therapy theories. Today we delve into a less commonly tested theory, … Continued. The post ASWB Exam Prep: Gestalt Therapy appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.

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Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month

University of Connecticut

From the Desk of Dean Heller Dear Colleagues, Thursday, September 15, is the start of Hispanic Heritage Month. This annual event celebrates the many diverse cultures and histories of Hispanic and Latinx/a/o communities. At the School of Social Work, we are pleased to highlight the achievements and contributions of these communities to our country and world.

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Nick Espitia Successfully Defends Dissertation

Michigan Social Work

Nick Espitia, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Sociology, has successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Our Existence is a Political Issue: Examining the Political Participation of Undocumented Latinx Immigrants in the Midwest.” Katie Richards-Schuster served on his committee. Espitia has accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the department of social work at Oakland University.

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Get Connected: Using Social Media for Social Work Success

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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Agile working failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland, finds study

Community Care

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. Approaches in which people are not allocated a fixed desk and work at different times and locations depending on need have become increasingly common, but practitioners are consistently negative about them, found a five-year study into newly qualified social workers published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). .

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Working When You are Struggling with Mental Health

Abuse Survivor

I’d like to tell you that it’s ok to take breaks and to stop working for a little while but that’s not a reality for most people. Bills and other financial obligations don’t stop when we aren’t feeling well. This list is helpful for me and my hope is that it may help others to think about things that can help them get through a work day.

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15 Best Play Therapy Blogs and Websites

Creative Play Therapist

The best Play Therapy blog list is curated from thousands of blogs on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness compiled by FeedSpot. Creative Play Therapist was ranked as number 12! Click here to view the whole list.

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Andrew Grogan-Kaylor’s Research Cited in Editorials in the Chicago Tribune and Washington Post

Michigan Social Work

Professor Andrew Grogan-Kaylor’s review of 50 years of research on corporal punishment was cited in a Chicago Tribune article about the return of corporal punishment to a Missouri school district. The review was also cited in an editorial in the Washington Post.

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Empower Your Nonprofit With Effective Payroll & HCM Services

Managing a nonprofit involves many challenges, but payroll and HR shouldn’t be among them. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps nonprofits choose the best provider. Efficient payroll services ensure timely, accurate payments, vital for maintaining staff and volunteer morale. Compliance support helps navigate complex labor laws and avoid costly fines.

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Social Work England to review fees for practitioners

Community Care

Social Work England is to review the fees it charges practitioners under its new strategy, covering 2023-26. Social workers have been charged £90 a year for registration, and its renewal, since 2015, firstly under the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and then Social Work England since 2019. The regulator said it was, consequently, reasonable to review levels, in a consultation paper on the new strategy, published last week.

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Audio Video Diary This Week

Abuse Survivor

This week, I recorded an audio diary. I talk about how my trauma recovery is going and a bit about my work now as things have evolved. I am really having to accept myself and my capabilities instead of trying to strive for a level of functioning that just isn’t possible for me right now. My focus is and needs to always be taking care of my mental health then everything else.

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NCCPR in The Imprint: Safety Science is Good for Aviation, But in Child Welfare, it Won’t Fly

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

A column in The Imprint last month begins by quoting an odd claim made by David Sanders, in the preface to the report of a commission he chaired. He wrote: “Child protection is perhaps the only field where some child deaths are assumed to be inevitable, no matter how hard we work to stop them.” Really? I know of no fire chief who has claimed it’s possible to prevent any child from ever dying in a fire.

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Working with the DSM 5

University of Connecticut

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II. Monday, Oct 17, 2022. 9:30 am – 4 pm. 5 CECs. $110 – UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors. $125 – All Others. Location : Hartford Public Library, Room 026, 500 Main Street. Directions and Parking details will be included in your email confirmation. The 5th edition of the DSM brings with it some of the most significant changes between editions.

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How to Reduce Anxiety in your Body and Brain

Counselor Toolbox podcast

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Liberty, social care detention and the law of institutions

Health & Social Care Workforce

Stephen Martineau, Research Fellow at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce at King’s College London, reviews Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution by Lucy Series (University of Bristol).

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Whose Homework is it Anyways?

Gary Direnfeld

There’s a new crop of students, now in first year university. Among them are students whose parents carried them through high school. Now in university these students are realizing there is an increased work load and yet far more independence. Some of these students will slack off. The work won’t get done. If or when the parents get wind of the lack of progress, some parents will be angry, some worried and yet some willing to “help” their young adult child meet their acad

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The Clinical Interview In-person

University of Connecticut

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II. Monday, Oct 31, 2022. 9:30 am – 4 pm. 5 CECs. $110 – UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors. $125 – All Others. Location : Hartford Public Library, Room 026, 500 Main Street. Directions and Parking details will be included in your email confirmation. What questions do you ask your clients that get at the information you need?

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25 Tips to Strengthen your Brain and Reduce Anxiety and Depression Relapses

Counselor Toolbox podcast

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Social Work England swaps Stonewall LGBTQ+ staff inclusion scheme for alternative

Community Care

Social Work England has left a Stonewall scheme designed to increase inclusion for LGBTQ+ staff in favour of an alternative training programme. The regulator said it was joining charity the LGBT Foundation’s training academy , on the grounds that it was a better fit for delivering its equality, diversity and inclusion action plan, published in February, than Stonewall’s diversity champions scheme.