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How to Improve Behavioral Health Equity

Relias

Educate: Engage in perspective-taking through books and documentaries, and evaluate clients as individuals. This framework reframes trauma symptoms not as disorders, but as adaptive responses to overwhelming or harmful experiences. Collaboration: Engage clients in shared decision-making to reduce power imbalances.

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Children’s social workers to be measured against new post-qualifying standards

Community Care

Asks purposeful, inquiring questions to explore actual or likelihood of significant harm to the child. Makes persistent and creative efforts to gather information in complex circumstances relating to risk, particularly in cases of exploitation, extrafamilial harm, and organised child sexual abuse.

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Councils given guide to evidence on mentoring schemes for children in care

Community Care

The review team examined 58 studies covering 33 programmes, including 20 studies, of 10 programmes, that examined programme effectiveness, most of which were randomised controlled trials (RCT), which randomly allocate participants into a group that receives the intervention and a control.

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Colorado task force’s solution to stop children from running from residential treatment: Fence ‘em in & lock ‘em up!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

If youre wondering why fencing also might be needed to keep dangers out it illustrates another reason why residential treatment is so harmful. Senate Committee report points out: [Residential treatment facilities] are costly, not as effective as community-based behavioral health treatment options, and often harmful to youth in their care.

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How to Become a Trauma-Informed Organization

Relias

Even when organizations dont directly engage with trauma, they are touched by it. Burnout among human services and mental health professionals has been linked to outcomes that harm not only employees, but the organization as a whole. The effects of trauma are present when employees call in sick.

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‘Non-therapeutic circumcision of boys is a safeguarding concern’

Community Care

In 1974, a mother from the Nigerian Yoruba tradition who ritually scarified the cheeks of her two consenting sons with a razor blade was convicted of actual bodily harm. In 2008, a man who made two initially willing boys participate in a Shia self-flagellation ritual was convicted of child cruelty.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

Educator : Social workers educate clients about resources, coping strategies, and life skills to enhance their well-being and self-sufficiency. Researcher : Some social workers engage in research to better understand social issues, evaluate programs, and inform policy development.