Sat.Sep 24, 2022 - Fri.Sep 30, 2022

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Five Ways To Stop Shiny Object Syndrome

A Splintered Mind

Long before “Shiny Object Syndrome” was coined as a term, an insignificant blogger from Utah referred to a similar condition and called it Multi-Irons Syndrome. Are they the same thing? Shiny Object Syndrome — The Fancy Term for Something You’ve Been Doing All Your Life There is often a difference between what an expression means when it is coined and how people end up using it.

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Moral Injury in a Broken System

The New Social Worker

Moral injury, a term first coined in research on Vietnam veterans and PTSD, describes inner conflict experienced when betraying an inherent moral code in “high stakes” situations. It has also been found to have high prevalence in healthcare settings.

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What are the F’s of the Stress Response?

Counselor Toolbox podcast

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Closing Thoughts During Suicide Prevention Month 2022

My Brains Not Broken

Every year when I reach the end of Suicide Prevention Month, I take time to reflect on what I’ve learned this month and how that helps my work in suicide prevention going forward. Some years I learn more than others but either way, September is a valuable month of awareness and reflection. While there’s so much that’s being done in the way of suicide prevention, this month is also a reminder that there’s more work to do.

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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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There is progress on advancing the Improving Access to Mental Health Act

Social Work Blog

Progress on Advancing the Improving Access to Mental Health Act (H.R 2035/ S. 870). The Senate Finance Committee (SFC) released its mental health workforce discussion draft component of its mental health legislative package (a summary may be found here ). We are pleased to report two of three provisions of the I mproving Access to Mental Health Act are included in section 12 of the discussion draft.

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Our Recovery Playlist 

Gateway Foundation

No matter what stage you find yourself at in your recovery, music can be a great way to take your mind off things or inspire you. Whether you’re searching for a list of songs to play when you’re driving, studying, hanging out with loved ones, or just relaxing, our recovery playlist has you covered. Whatever genre of music is your favorite, you’re sure to find something you like on this list of songs.

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Breaking Down Mental Health Terms: What is High-Functioning Anxiety?

My Brains Not Broken

Up until a few years ago, I hadn’t heard of the term high-functioning anxiety. To me, anxiety was something that got in the way of functioning. It made decisions more difficult and tasks harder to complete. The idea of a high-functioning version of mental health challenges is new to me, so I decided to do some research. Today on the blog, I want to break down high-functioning anxiety, what it looks like and how we can manage it.

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“Oscar’s Family” – New book teaches children about court appointed special advocacy and family

National Casa Gal

Read More. The post “Oscar’s Family” – New book teaches children about court appointed special advocacy and family appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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IFSW EUROPE NEW SOCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE WEBINAR, Friday 30th September 2022 at 5pm CET

International Federation of Social Workers

Time and date: Friday 30th September 2022 at 5pm CET Speaker: Ketevan Lekishvili – Georgia Please join us for a meeting of New Social Workers from IFSW Europe. It is one […].

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Book Review—The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

The New Social Worker

If you are a field instructor in a hospital setting, here’s my recommendation: assign The Emergency to your student. If you’re a social work student or a new social worker in the hospital environment, seek this book out.

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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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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending September 27, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

A week of extraordinary news coverage. Let’s start with three stories, each powerful in itself, even more so for the picture they paint when read one after the other: ? Does anyone still believe the lie that family policing agencies always tell about how “we can’t remove a child on our own, a judge has to approve everything we do”? If so, please read this story from Honolulu Civil Beat, about how, in Hawaii, they almost never ask a judge first – but keep getting away with it.

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Video Diary for today

Abuse Survivor

Video Diary pt 1 of 2 Sept 29, 2022 Abuse Survivor Blog Sarah Garlits. You can see part 2 on my Patreon at: [link].

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What is Early Trauma and Why Does it Matter?

Swhelper

Deona Hooper. “Any situation or event that leaves a child feeling overwhelmed and alone needs to be considered as trauma.” This presentation was by Jane Evans, UK author, and Parenting Expert at our SWHELPER Summit 2018. Citation Evans, Jane. What is Early Trauma and Why Does it Matter? SWHELPER Summit, 20 March. 2018, [link]. View Full Article - What is Early Trauma and Why Does it Matter?

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Police opens investigation into abuse at mental health hospital revealed by BBC

Community Care

Police have opened an investigation into abuse of patients at a mental health hospital uncovered by the BBC. Panorama filmed staff assaulting , inappropriately restraining and secluding and verbally abusing and humiliating patients at the Edenfield Centre run by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Undercover reporter Alan Haslam, who spent three months at the centre, also found staff falsely recording that they had carried out required observations of patients.

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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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Progressive Values Shape Ayesha Ghazi Edwin’s Family Story

Michigan Social Work

“Ann Arbor and the university welcomed us with open arms, and we fell in love with this diverse, inclusive community.” Lecturer and ENGAGE: DETROIT Program Manager Ayesha Ghazi Edwin’s family history is chronicled in a story on U-M’s Center for South Asian Studies website. The story describes how the progressive values of their grandparents have shaped Ghazi Edwin, who is also an Ann Arbor Council member, and her sister, Dr.

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Bookwork Entry 9

A Splintered Mind

A lot is said about adults with ADHD and their inability to focus, but not enough is said when they're focused on the wrong thing. Here I became fixated on adding a certain project to my list of things to do, which was already ridiculously long. (Mobile browsers only display the first page. Please view the text entry after the embedded PDF…) 25 AUGUST 2022 Bookwork 9: Did I really want to write a book about Pokémon?

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Two new NCCPR op-eds

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NCCPR in The Missouri Independent: Fixing Missouri child welfare: Darrell Missey has it backwards In his masterful biography The Power Broker, Robert Caro describes how New York City’s “master builder” Robert Moses, became a master destroyer of communities because of a fundamental misunderstanding. Moses thought that if he just blasted enough highways through enough neighborhoods it would end the city’s chronic traffic congestion.

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‘We are just working to live at the moment’ – social workers on the cost of living crisis

Community Care

Community Care’s survey on the cost of living crisis found that a majority of social workers were struggling, with 94% receiving no additional help from employers. Some were going into debt to manage rising costs, whether through credit cards, overdrafts or borrowing from friends and family. One said: Our bills now cost more than my wife’s and my monthly income each month, meaning we are just getting into more debt each month with no chance to change that.” “I struggle to pay my own

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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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Andy Grogan-Kaylor’s team wins a Breakthrough Award at U-M’s Psych Tank Funding Competition

Michigan Social Work

Andy Grogan-Kaylor’s team won a Breakthrough Award at the inaugural Psych Tank Funding Competition, hosted by the U-M’s Eisenberg Family Depression Center. The team came in second place, winning $75,000 for their project “Mental health care for ALL kids! What are we waiting for?

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UK care homes still stopping family reunions months after Covid rules eased

The Guardian

Support groups say relatives are frightened to speak out about being denied access to elderly residents Two and a half years after Boris Johnson announced the first UK lockdown, and seven months after the last domestic measures ended, some care homes in Britain are still denying people access to their elderly relatives due to Covid restrictions. Grandchildren have been banned by some homes, which put age limits on visitors.

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Substance Use Disorders DSM 5 TR Changes

Counselor Toolbox podcast

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DfE merges schools and children’s social care responsibilities under new minister

Community Care

The Department for Education (DfE) has merged responsibilities for children’s social care and schools under new minister Kelly Tolhurst. The DfE confirmed this week that Tolhurst would be its sixth minister with responsibility for social care in four years, three weeks after Brendan Clark-Smith left the children’s minister post to take up a role in another department.

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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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Rebeccah Sokol Part of Inaugural Cohort at U-M Institute of Firearm Injury Prevention

Michigan Social Work

Assistant Professor Rebeccah Sokol is part of the inaugural cohort of six new faculty members hired for U-M Institute of Firearm Injury Prevention to advance knowledge and identify solutions to the ongoing national epidemic. Sokol focuses her research on youth exposure to adversity, and on firearm injury and violence prevention.

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The doctor won’t see you now – the NHS is in crisis | Letters

The Guardian

Philip Wood on having to turn to private treatment because of health service underresourcing, Dr Pilar Murphy on staff shortages and Dr Euan Strachan-Orr on the pressure GPs face Your editorial ( 22 September ) and Rachel Clarke’s excoriating opinion piece ( Instead of helping desperate NHS doctors like me, Thérèse Coffey is sticking in the boot, 22 September ) demonstrate how the Tories continue to mismanage and impoverish state health and social care.

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‘…items and belongings…’ – a hoarding case at the Court of Protection

Health & Social Care Workforce

Stephen Martineau summarises a recent case at the Court of Protection involving hoarding behaviour: AC and GC (Capacity: Hoarding: Best Interests) [2022] EWCOP 39. With thanks to Neil Allen for alerting us to the judgment via this Tweet.

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UNISON members back £1,925 pay rise for social workers

Community Care

UNISON members have voted to back councils’ offer of a £1,925 pay rise for local authority social workers this year. The union – which represents an estimated 40,000 social workers – announced the move on Twitter earlier today. However, the result does not mean that UNISON has accepted the offer from representatives of English, Welsh and Northern Irish councils.

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Invitation to Join 3rd Atal Bihari Vajpayee Public Policy Talk Series

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Invitation to Join 3rd Atal Bihari Vajpayee Public Policy Talk Series. Dear Sir/ Madam, Greetings from Ganpat University- FMS !!! We take immense pleasure to inform you that Ganpat University-Faculty of Management Studies is going to organize a 3rd Bi-Monthly Virtual Atal Bihari Vajpayee Public Policy Talk series on “Journeys Across Continents: A New India on the Global Stage” This is a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural, extremely thoughtful elite talk series where we invite veteran burea

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Temporarily registered social workers no longer able to practise

Community Care

Social workers temporarily registered in England and Wales during the pandemic will no longer be able to practise after today. Social Work England will remove temporarily registered practitioners – who numbered about 6,500 as of this summer – while Social Care Wales will close its temporary register to its five remaining members. Temporary registration was introduced in March 2020 under the Coronavirus Act , to bolster the workforce, in case of increases in demand or staff depletion

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Extra £500m for social care a ‘sticking plaster’, warn sector leaders

Community Care

The government’s £500m injection of cash into adult social care this winter is a mere “sticking plaster” for the sector’s underlying problems, leaders have warned. The package, designed to speed up hospital discharges by increasing the availability of social care, and to boost the supply of care staff, was broadly welcomed by councils, providers, think-tanks and charities.