My Brains Not Broken
JANUARY 20, 2022
As someone who experiences depression on a fairly regular basis, I struggle when it comes to the concept of choosing. I forget about my power to decide, and how those choices can directly impact my well-being. After so many years of experiencing mental illness, the power to choose feels like a theoretical concept at this point, but I don’t think I’d realized just how much I was limiting myself until the pandemic hit.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
JANUARY 18, 2022
38th Annual Social Work Day at the UN. Moving Toward Food Security for All: The Role of Social Work. SAVE THE DAT E : Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Noon — 2 p.m. EST. This event will be held virtually on Zoom.
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Bipolar Bandit
JANUARY 20, 2022
Romantic relationships can come with many highs and lows. You can oscillate between feeling very confident and then insecure. Insecurities can come from unresolved internal issues, such as low self-esteem, fear of abandonment, trauma, and general anxiety. When these issues are not dealt with, they can topple over into your relationships. Insecurities in your relationship may also stem from your partner engaging in gaslighting.
The New Social Worker
JANUARY 17, 2022
The best self-care advice is that which you give yourself. Advice from others sparks new ideas, reminds us of something we did previously and need to resurface, and reinforces or refines our own self-care practice. So, let’s hear from some experts.
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My Brains Not Broken
JANUARY 18, 2022
By and large, writing about mental health isn’t a “fun” activity. A lot of the experiences I write about are challenges that I or other people have faced in the past. Most of the research I do is to signify to others that mental illness is a concern for people of all ages and demographics, and having honest discussions about that will help shrink the stigma and help people get help when they need it.
Gateway Foundation
JANUARY 21, 2022
Detox is the first step in the recovery process from substance use disorder. Whether a person struggles with alcohol use or drug use, the withdrawal symptoms of detox range in severity from mildly uncomfortable to dangerous and life-threatening. Completing the detox process and achieving a successful recovery is possible, and it’s important to undergo detox… The post Dangers of At-Home Drug or Alcohol Detox appeared first on Gateway.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 19, 2022
If the recommendations are enacted, the biggest beneficiaries might be Maine's paper mills, what with all the “theories of change” “logic models” and “strategies” that will have to be turned out. Multiple organizations in Maine – but with the lead organizations dominated by private “providers” have put out a document they’re calling “A Framework for Child Welfare Reform” in that state.
Nicole Clark Consulting
JANUARY 19, 2022
Try this out and let me know how it goes for you. On the road to becoming more data driven, and making sense of stakeholder data, organizations use the data to inform their strategic planning process. A strategic plan, in short, is a written document that outlines an organization’s mission, vision, the context the plan [.]. The post Try This: Check In on Your Strategic Plan appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.
Social Work Blog
JANUARY 19, 2022
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) on January 19 is joining the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, Angelina Jolie , and Senate sponsors of the upcoming Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization for a policy day of action to ask Senators to co-sponsor and pass the bipartisan consensus bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.
Bipolar Bandit
JANUARY 20, 2022
After a few years of unprecedented stress, many of us are struggling to cope. Whether you’ve had a PTSD or C-PTSD diagnosis in the past and it’s being exacerbated by the pandemic, or you’re just starting to take a closer look at your mental health symptoms, we can all benefit from more support and greater trauma awareness. PTSD and Complex PTSD are both mental health disorders that can develop after a traumatic event.
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
1. Yes, families DO have Fourth Amendment rights when the family police are at the door. 2. No, caseworkers cannot evade accountability by claiming they were too stupid to know they’re not allowed to lie in documents used in court. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a simil
The New Social Worker
JANUARY 19, 2022
Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell provides a journalistic exposé of the political, financial, and institutional forces that have created $1.6 trillion in student debt over the last 65 years. Peter Kindle reviews The Debt Trap.
Gateway Foundation
JANUARY 21, 2022
Compulsive gambling affects about 5 million U.S. residents. Consistent compulsive gambling can quickly lead to a gambling addiction, also known as pathological gambling. While it might sound easy to stop before the problem reaches that point, the way that gambling affects your brain chemistry can make it challenging to quit. Below, you’ll discover the science… The post How Gambling Affects Your Brain appeared first on Gateway.
Michigan Social Work
JANUARY 18, 2022
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Professor of Social Work Rogério Meireles Pinto has been appointed the Berit Ingersoll-Dayton Collegiate Professor of Social Work. Pinto’s community-based participatory research aims to improve access to social work and public health services, particularly those services at the intersection of health and well-being.
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Swhelper
JANUARY 21, 2022
Manuel Stoilov. After helplessly watching her sister try to navigate the international adoption process, Felicia Curcuru launched Binti in an effort to reinvent foster care and adoption. Since the launch of the company in 2017, Binti has expanded its network to over 190 agencies across 26 states in the U.S. The software Binti creates helps social workers […].
The New Social Worker
JANUARY 18, 2022
SaraKay Smullens reviews The Unforgivable, starring Sandra Bullock.
Relias
JANUARY 21, 2022
When it comes to rehabilitation therapy, patient commitment and effort are essential to good outcomes. When therapists work collaboratively with their patients to identify their personal goals, patients are motivated to commit to therapy interventions and expend greater effort. In other words, to promote patient engagement in rehab therapy, you must start with the individual patient’s motivation and work together toward optimal outcomes.
American Board of Clinical Social Work
JANUARY 19, 2022
Happy New Year! As we reflect on 2021 and look forward to this brand new year, here are a few things to consider; For Yourself… Celebrate each day as a new opportunity to be happy. Write down something you’d like to work on this year. Enjoy your morning coffee/tea outside, if weather permits. Fill your mind and heart with a sense of peace and gratitude.
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.
Gateway Foundation
JANUARY 19, 2022
Gambling is a growing national public health problem. In fact, the rate of pathological gambling among American adults has doubled since 1995, with gambling addiction affecting up to 11% of the population. This sudden spike in gambling addiction has led many to question whether a gambling problem could be hereditary. The sections below will explore… The post Is Gambling Hereditary?
Michigan Social Work
JANUARY 19, 2022
PhD student Rita Hu has received the 2021 Elizabeth Douvan Junior Scholar in Life Course Development, part of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) Next Generation Awards. . Named in honor of Elizabeth “Libby” Douvan, the first female member of ISR’s research facility, the fund is designed to support senior graduate students, post-doctoral candidates, and junior faculty members with research agendas in Life Course Development (LCD).
Community Care
JANUARY 18, 2022
A London borough has agreed to pay £2,500 to a disabled boy and his adoptive mother after issuing care proceedings on “incomplete and flawed information”. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found that Richmond council had not considered the full range of information available to it about ‘Ms X’ and ‘Y’ at its legal planning meeting before launching care proceedings.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 19, 2022
? Writing in The Imprint, Vivek Sankaran looks at the implications of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that never should have been necessary. It should have been obvious all along that, when the family police knock at the door, families have Fourth Amendment rights. He also shows that, apparently, there are some pretty awful judges in his own state of Michigan. ?
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Gateway Foundation
JANUARY 17, 2022
Having a “why” behind any major commitment is one of the best ways to ensure you follow through, and detoxing from alcohol is no different. While it might not be easy to give up alcohol, understanding all the ways that quitting alcohol can enhance your life will help keep you motivated. As you stop heavy… The post Benefits of Detoxing From Alcohol appeared first on Gateway.
Michigan Social Work
JANUARY 17, 2022
The conventional mortgage market is not working in Detroit, writes Professor Trina Shanks in a Detroit Free Press editorial. Shanks and her co-authors recommend new programs to support homebuyer education programs and establish a single-family residential rehabilitation fund. “We know the private mortgage market does not serve Detroit in the same way as it does adjacent communities.
Community Care
JANUARY 19, 2022
The way ordinary residence is determined for mental health aftercare remains unsettled, despite the government winning a court ruling relating to its radical new approach to the issue. Last month, the Court of Appeal partially accepted the new policy , under which responsibility for aftercare for people detained multiple times under the Mental Health Act remains with the council where the person lived immediately before their first detention.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
JANUARY 17, 2022
Call for book contributions – community development in Africa. TIMELINE OF PROJECT The following is a tentative outline of submission deadlines: Proposals of Intent: March 31, 2022. Email Acceptance of Proposals: On or before May 31, 2022. For more information, please write to Dr. Charles Gyan, Co-Editor E: charles.gyan@mcgill.ca. Call for book contributions - community development in Africa.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 16, 2022
Auditors for the Montana Legislature have now made clear that Montana’s “child welfare” system is not about children and does not promote their welfare. Perhaps now, thanks to a performance audit of the Child and Family Services Division, lawmakers will face up to the harm done by Montana’s dubious distinction, child removal capital of America. The audit reveals that Montana’s extreme outlier status does not keep children safe, and it reveals that the all-purpose knee-jerk excuse from CFSD – it’
Michigan Social Work
JANUARY 17, 2022
The Vivian A. and James L. Curtis School of Social Work Center for Health Equity Research and Training Center has secured a contract with the National Network of Public Health Institutes to review best or promising practices that address social and structural determinants of health related to COVID-19. The Curtis Center was one of just four research centers contracted to support more than 100 grant recipients from the CDC in the assessment, translation and dissemination of evidence-based practic
Community Care
JANUARY 20, 2022
A safeguarding investigation that failed to uncover the harmful care a woman received at a care home “relied heavily” on the provider’s own internal probe into the concerns. The Lancashire council social worker carrying out the enquiry did not cross-check documentation submitted by the care home concerning “Mrs X’s” care, and reached an “inconclusive” judgment on the safeguarding concerns, found the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.
Social Care
JANUARY 17, 2022
Nadra Ahmed, Executive Chair of the National Care Association, explains how a new website can help people make informed decisions about paying for care. The power of testimony. Friends, family and colleagues are all great sources of information. Sometimes, information comes from chance encounters, when you’re walking the dog or dropping off the kids.
Health & Social Care Workforce
JANUARY 20, 2022
Mary Baginsky, Senior Research Fellow at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, introduces the paper given by Martha Cover recently at the Unit. Dr Baginsky convenes the seminar series where the paper was presented.
Michigan Social Work
JANUARY 17, 2022
Assistant Professor Shanna Kattari and Lecturer Leonardo Kattari have won the 2022 SSWR Book Award Honorable Mention for the book they co-edited, “Social Work and Health Care Practice with Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals and Communities: Voices for Equity, Inclusion, and Resilience.” The book includes chapters co-authored by Assistant Professor Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, PhD student Mattthew Bakko, alex kime, MSW ‘18, and Jennifer Schwartz, MSW ‘13.
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