Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 14, 2022

Trigger warning. This post addresses domestic violence. ?————— One eight-year-old boy explained to me that he would hide a walkie-talkie under the kitchen table to listen in on his parents’ fights so he would know when to come downstairs to complain of a tummyache so they’d stop fighting. A nine-year-old girl told me how she would sit out of sight at the top of the stairs to listen for parents fighting to know when to gather her two younger siblings to h

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My Brains Not Broken

APRIL 14, 2022

Over the years, my relationship with therapy has ebbed and flowed. I’ve gone from being skeptical about it to going twice a week and everywhere in between. The common thread is that I’ve never been with one therapist long enough to making any long-term changes – until now. And now that I’m noticing some things about myself and how mental health affects my life, I’m facing a new challenge.

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 10, 2022

Multiple U.S. states have introduced policies that are harmful to our trans and gender nonconforming communities. These communities are advocating for social justice. What will you, as a social worker, do today to advocate alongside them?

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Therapist Development Center

APRIL 11, 2022

Today’s topic is one near and dear to us here at TDC-suicide. If you haven’t already heard, I’m excited to share with you that Amanda Rowan’s incomparable 6 hour suicide training is here. On the Edge of Life: Introduction … Continued. The post ASWB Exam Prep: Suicide appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 13, 2022

Professor Luke Shaefer has received the 2021 U-M President’s Award for Public Impact. This award honors individuals whose research and expertise tangibly address a major public-sector challenge. Shaefer is a leading scholar of contemporary American social welfare policy and the inaugural director of U-M’s Poverty Solutions. He is co-author of the acclaimed book, “$2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America,” which helped lay the groundwork for current anti-poverty legislative efforts, includin

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My Brains Not Broken

APRIL 12, 2022

Last week I was feeling a little under the weather , which l ed me to writing about the perfectionism that it brought out in me. After several days of not feeling so hot, I woke up yesterday morning feeling somewhat healthy for the first time in a while. It was, as the saying goes, a breath of fresh air – not only physically, but mentally as well.

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Clinical Philosophy

APRIL 13, 2022

I don't know about you, but the reason I often make notes after psychotherapy sessions is because I need aides-memoires. I've about 18 patients - in my private psychotherapy practice - at any one time; most of them attend just once a week. And sometimes they'll say something, or I'll think of something during or after the session, that I want to make sure I hold onto for later lest it should then prove relevant.

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2022

England’s first independent children’s trust is to close with the council taking services back in-house. Doncaster Children’s Services Trust (DCST), set up in 2014, is transferring provision back to the council after the organisations agreed the current model was hindering progress and as Ofsted downgraded services from ‘good’ to ‘requires improvement’ , with leadership rated inadequate.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 14, 2022

Resources related to older persons in humanitarian action and forced migration. Here are documents address working with older persons who are displaced or in situations of humanitarian assistance in emergencies. One is from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and the other was developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, a UN General Assembly-created mechanism for inter-agency coordination in humanitarian assistance.

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 11, 2022

Your Social Work Career Coach Jennifer Luna interviews Dr. Octavious Bishop on social work in sports, inclusion, entrepreneurship, and more! He shares his experience and views on working with student athletes and working at “eye level.

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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.

Beyond Advocacy

APRIL 13, 2022

I was back on Capitol Hill Tuesday, April 5, for the first time in two years. My last visit to the Hill was CRISP’s Social Work Day on the Hill reception in the Rayburn Building in March 2020. We cancelled Student Advocacy Day scheduled for the next day as the House and Senate would go into hiatus until the Covid-19 pandemic abated. We are still waiting.

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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2022

“Significant” difficulties recruiting social workers are undermining practice and thwarting improvements at an ‘inadequate’ local authority, Ofsted has found. In a since rating the authority as inadequate in 2019 , inspectors found its recruitment problems had negatively affected the services its duty teams offered to children. Inspectors reported that some children were being left in situations of unknown risk with “too many” experiencing “unnecessary drift and delay” in having their needs ass

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 14, 2022

Resources of World Social Work Day at the UN-Geneva. We hope you participated in the online edition of the World Social Work Day at the UN-Geneva, on March 16. You can find the speeches, presentations and podcasts of the different sessions by clicking HERE.

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 10, 2022

Multiple U.S. states have introduced policies that are harmful to our trans and gender nonconforming communities. These communities are advocating for social justice. What will you, as a social worker, do today to advocate alongside them?

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 12, 2022

A hospice nurse visits an elderly man. Getty Images. Brittney Chesworth. While most people don’t like the idea of death, they are able to accept to some degree that they are going to die one day. For some, however, the fear of death leads to a host of worries about anything that could potentially end their lives, says NASW member Brittney Chesworth, PhD.

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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2022

Projects testing the impact of social work support for schools have received a £5m boost, extending their lifespan until the summer. The schemes, which place social workers in schools and provide school designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) with social work supervision, respectively, were due to end last month. But the Department for Education has provided £4.79m in additional funding for What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) to extend the projects, and their evaluations, until Augu

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 14, 2022

April 15 marks the third anniversary of six-year-old AJ Freund’s death from child abuse. Though most of us remember his name, there have been so many others since including six-year-olds Damari Perry and infants Ameer and Johntavis Newell. Have we learned anything since then? The average number of children who die from abuse or neglect in the U.S. fluctuates between 4 and 5 per day.

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 15, 2022

When Social Workers Lobby in COVID-y Times of Injustice, a poem written by Susan Mankita, LCSW, inspired by the NASW 2021 Social Work Month theme “Social Workers are Essential.

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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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American Board of Clinical Social Work

APRIL 10, 2022

When couples come to us for treatment, they have frequently been struggling with the dysregulated emotions of trauma. Their right brains have been correctly mutually creating an outlet for these unmetabolized emotions through their recycling dramas, but the partners usually do not know what to do with them and have almost always developed a sizable amount of fear around their expression.

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) has intervened in a council’s children’s services on the back of an ‘inadequate’ verdict from Ofsted. Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP) is now subject to the direction and oversight of DfE-appointed improvement adviser John Coughlan, under a statutory direction issued by the department this week.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

APRIL 13, 2022

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The Guardian

APRIL 9, 2022

My mother picked a particularly inhumane epoch in Australian politics to get sick. When it comes to aged care, something has to give Get our free news app ; get our morning email briefing In 2013, my mum Lenore was diagnosed with a rare neurodegenerative illness. This sickness – a sadistic killer – was resolutely incurable. “It’s the worst-case scenario,” said the neurologist, who had a model of a human brain on his desk.

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Social Care

APRIL 12, 2022

Multiple perspectives from four dedicated Hertfordshire County Council colleagues, fully invested in the progress, aims and ambitions of the social care workplace race equality standard (SCWRES). Liz Fergus, Diversity and Inclusion Project Manager. I started my role as Adult Care Services (ACS) Project Manager for Diversity and Inclusion as we were applying to be one of the first SCWRES sites.

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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2022

Social workers are “pivotal” to the success of direct payments but need improved training to build their skills and confidence. That was one of the key messages from a report from Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) designed to help councils boost the number of direct payments and the experience people have of using them, in the face of a year-on-year decline in take-up.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

APRIL 10, 2022

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The Guardian

APRIL 14, 2022

Australia’s home aged care providers facing ‘abysmal’ turnover rates as rising stress and poor pay take their toll Get our free news app ; get our morning email briefing The nation’s largest home care provider says its aged care workers are at “breaking point” and are only receiving a fraction of the Coalition’s promised $800 bonus due to flaws with the scheme’s design.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 11, 2022

This is a busy week in family law. As luck would have it, we are in the run up to two significant religious holidays that this year happen to coincide and interestingly, with a third already upon us. Friday is both Easter and Passover, two big family occasions. They occur in the midst of a third, Ramadan. Between separated who don’t get along, these holidays can be a tremendous source of conflict.

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Community Care

APRIL 12, 2022

People who take Ukrainian refugees into their homes should not have the money they receive for doing so counted for the purposes of care charges, the government has said. In guidance issued yesterday, the Department of Health and Social Care said councils should disregard the £350 a month paid to sponsors under the Homes for Ukraine programme when assessing their resources for charging purposes.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

APRIL 14, 2022

The World is Going Bonkers. The world is going bonkers, and it may feel like you are too. Stress is compounding daily. We are bombarded with negative news, messages and images that increase stress and anxiety. So, how can we Reset? The answer is Retreat. In a recent episode of “Stress Talk” Live with Marcyline we kicked off the month with a discussion about the benefits of planned retreats.

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The Guardian

APRIL 9, 2022

A pilot of four-day weeks is unlikely to bear fruit for low-paid staff with little power to negotiate terms It feels strange now to recall that two years ago we had just entered a three-month stretch of government-enforced hermithood as the battle with Covid was joined. I lived alone, forbidden from spending time with anyone else, so my social life consisted of Saturday nights in front of my laptop doing a virtual pub quiz.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 11, 2022

Children look up and recognize they are the product of both parents. I am half this one and half that one. What does it say to a child then if the one parent then runs down the other to the child? How does the child experience this? Do they hear something just as a reflection of the disparaged parent or do they see that as something said of themselves too, being half that other parent?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2022

? While discussing her new book, Torn Apart , on public radio’s The Takeaway , Dorothy Roberts made host Melissa Harris-Perry gasp. Want to hear it? And see also this story in Jezebel. ? Thanks to Greg Abbott, affluent white people are discovering that even “CPS-lite” is enormously traumatic for children and families. As I note in this column for The Imprint , for Black, Brown, Native and poor white families it’s a whole lot worse. ?

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