Social Work Blog

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and rise in racial injustices signaled the need to engage students in macro-level interventions to maximize their contributions to their schools, communities, and society. Owens, LCSW , lecturer of social work, Jane Adams College of Social Work, University of Illinois Chicago.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

In a 2021 study, 83 percent of healthcare providers reported positive behavior change in patients after conducting alcohol screening and brief intervention with them. What is alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT)? These conversations can have a major impact.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

In a video made by the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business, Ripley explained that “you can make money in this business if you control staffing.” The Committee’s own invited witness, Elizabeth Manley of the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, testified about the need for these programs.

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Foster Care Interventional Child Welfare Medicaid 130

Michigan Social Work

MARCH 19, 2024

Assistant Professor Ashley Cureton was recently selected to be a fellow for the LEAD Global Training Program of Washington University in St. This training program is funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Training Program. She will undergo an intensive 10-week summer training in the U.S.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Article by Diana Ling, MA, Program Manager; and Anna Mangum, MSW, MPH, Senior Health Strategist; Health Behavior Research and Training Institute, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin. If a client who is pregnant is using alcohol, the safest thing to do is to stop drinking. Every day matters.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 4, 2022

” The aim of the webinar is to engage with the newer challenges and renewed responsibilities for Social Work education and practice in the contemporary situation of conflict and ecological crisis. She was previously Co-Director at the Institute of Hazards, Risk and Resilience at Durham University. PM BST, 2.30

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Tertiary prevention efforts are interventions for families that have experienced ACES. Below is an advocacy opportunity, educational resources, and related organizations to help social workers and others engage in Child Abuse Prevention Month. Primary prevention efforts aim to prevent abuse and ACES before they occur.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Councils’ response to child neglect is “slow and inadequate” due to high thresholds for intervention and a lack of services, the NSPCC has found. However, practitioners who took part in online focus groups for the NSPCC’s study, told the charity that neglect often did not meet the threshold for intervention.

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CCRC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Research by the University of Minnesota shows that 80 percent of a child’s brain development occurs within the first 1,000 days of life, making the first three years of development extremely important. At the start of this age, children begin to engage in dramatic play, or the improvised make-believe of preschool children.

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Engagement Psychology Communication Interventional 59

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 28, 2022

Social Transformation Community Engagement and SDGs. Innovations in Community interventions. Towards Universal Social Protection. . – Public Health crisis, Welfare and Vulnerable Populations. Addressing climate change and strengthening disaster preparedness. Changing roles of families and households.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This blog post was written by Amber Sutton, LICSW, ABD, a social work instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in collaboration with students from her undergraduate social work research course during the Spring 2022 semester. You can also read their two poems. I asked them to make revisions as they saw fit.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 11, 2024

More than 1,300 college students from 30 colleges and universities across the state – public, community, and private schools – participated in the online survey. They found a high prevalence of gambling among college students in the state: 74% of all students had engaged in some type of gambling in the past year.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Since July of 2021, NASW and the NASW Foundation have partnered in this initiative with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work to provide national and state chapter-level training, tools, and information that promote COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Since September 2023, Matarese has been hosted in Ireland by the University of Galway, School of Political Science and Sociology, Social Work Programme. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Matarese is among over 800 U.S. Scholar Program.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. This is another example of why it is so important for social workers to be engaged in legislative settings at all levels of government,” Dr. Day concluded. CRISP has a long relationship with Rep. Davis’s office.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Stapleton is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, class of 2016. As a social worker, Natasha is responsible for educating staff about various diagnosis and how to engage students from a trauma informed lens. The team provided restorative interventions for at risk youth and first-time offenders.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This example personal statement will inspire you to write your own unique social work, personal statement to support your application to the University of your choice. My experience will guide me in understanding the different interventions used by social workers and enhance my knowledge of social work theories and methods.

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University of Connecticut

JUNE 20, 2023

This workshop will focus on how we can shift from an experience of anxiety and dread to a confident approach that engages our curiosity and creativity. We will also discuss practical tools, activities, and interventions to engage involuntary clients on a variety of different topics.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 23, 2022

Social Transformation Community Engagement and SDGs. – Innovations in Community interventions. – Towards Universal Social Protection. . – Public Health crisis, Welfare and Vulnerable Populations. – Addressing climate change and strengthening disaster preparedness. – Overcoming neo-liberal legacy.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By looking at youth and young adults from varying nationalities, we hope to learn about what motivates or hinders them from being actively engaged in addressing climate change.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Martin Guggenheim calls “ACS’s widespread practice of engaging in lawless home invasions that terrorize parents and children.” That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Since July of 2021, NASW and the NASW Foundation have partnered in this initiative with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work. As part of a national response to the pandemic, Connect to End COVID-19 is a $3.3 To read Part One, follow this link.

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Interventional Communication Social Worker Mental Health 52

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 26, 2022

Social Transformation Community Engagement and SDGs. Innovations in Community interventions. Towards Universal Social Protection. . – Public Health crisis, Welfare and Vulnerable Populations. Addressing climate change and strengthening disaster preparedness. Changing roles of families and households.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

She is a professor emerita at the University of Chicago, where she was a longtime faculty member in the Department of Education and Social Policy. Howard Goldstein is a renowned social worker and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. Tamara Grigsby is a prominent social worker and state representative.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

At the Self Care Forum , we believe these weeks are vital for engaging and encouraging people to make better choices about their health and wellbeing. Universities and colleges: we believe training for health and public health students must include ways to empower service users and patients.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Dr Ty Lostutter, a clinical psychologist at the University of Washington Medical Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance reports that while everyone experiences anxiety, people experience differing degrees of severity. BUT, there are things you should never say to someone with anxiety. So, what is anxiety?

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

During this phase, I had the opportunity to engage in fieldwork, where I witnessed firsthand the impact of social workers working tirelessly to address the needs of marginalised communities. I am excited about the prospect of joining [mention the university/program] and its esteemed MSW program.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The University ensured that students had access to several resources to help make our placement journey a success, however, placement experiences differed because of a combination of several factors. Skills: This helped me explore how the student may use social work methods or interventions to effect change.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Connect to End COVID-19 Campaign In 2021, NASW and the NASW Foundation partnered with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute (HBRT) at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work on a national $3.3 MI-SBIRT are evidence-based models for supporting clients in making informed decisions about their health.

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Social Work Haven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Skills and Intervention. Set some time aside and take on some online training or pay for course at a university to enhance your social work skills further!   Skills & Interventions.   Only when trust and respect are achieved, will any size or scale of intervention work. Engage in policy practice.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Since July of 2021, NASW and the NASW Foundation have partnered in this initiative with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work to provide national and state chapter-level training, tools, and information that promote COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake.

Communication 52

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 1, 2023

Recommended interventions have included physical activity, human touch, an increase in economic support policies, programs to address mental health concerns, and training on mindfulness and self-help skills, such as meditation. Active engagement, very effective when working with older adults, is an important part of this process.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

This article provides an overview of narrative therapy techniques and strategies for using them to engage clients in productive conversations about their experiences. He examines how new technologies can be used to improve interventions, explore data, and manage cases in innovative ways. Recommended Books. Social Work Registration.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

Encyclopaedia of Social Work (Oxford, Oxford University Press). 2000) Social Work Skills: a Practice Handbook (Buckingham, Open University Press). Socialworkhaven.com Useful Resources Recommended Books Best Social Work Books Every Student Must Read is a great article full of highly recommended and engaging books. Davies (Ed.)

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Community Care

MAY 22, 2022

Action to raise quality of initial social work education, including through Social Work England oversight of practice educators and a government evaluation of university-based social work courses. The review also called for new universal care standards, which would ensure that all looked-after children received care up to the age of 18.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

While the regulator said effective workforce planning required collaboration, a survey of providers found that just 18% said their local authority consulted or engaged with them completely, with a further 44% saying their council did so to an extent. However, overall, the CQC said authorities’ plans were short-term.

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