Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

By Violeta Donawa, LMSW, MA Dr. Kathleen Cox and Dr. Sue Steiner bring the concept of ‘self-care’ out of the shadows and demystifies its significance in the lives of social work practitioners and leaders. This reduces turnover rates, increases workers reported job satisfaction, and minimizes reported chronic stress.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

For clinical social workers, this means that we will almost definitely encounter a client with BPD at some point in our careers. Unfortunately, despite the high prevalence of individuals with BPD in our client populations, many social workers misunderstand the diagnosis. Myth: BPD is untreatable.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Collaboration with clients in all aspects of LTSS planning and provision … to maximize dignity and self-determination.” Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Social worker and best-selling author, Brené Brown, says that resilience is tolerating discomfort and painful emotions. It is not just a trait you are naturally imbued with, but rather “ an active practice ” that anyone can engage in. Perhaps the most important thing to know about resilience is that it can be built.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

You Asked, Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication? This is a very common question a lot of people ask in relation to the role of the social worker in health and social care. Social workers play an important role in promoting the health and wellbeing of people in the community.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Qualified social workers who have been out of practice for at least two years will face minimum learning requirements if they want to rejoin the register in Scotland. Regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has launched a consultation on introducing return to practice requirements similar to those in England and Wales.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Having a thriving social network of friends and family makes you healthier because the support of other people reduces the harmful effects of stress. Your self-worth increases and you feel positive about the future. Self-love is not selfish, and it is important to give back to yourself. Try something new I must confess.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

You asked, what is a social worker home visit checklist? A social worker home visit checklist serves as a comprehensive guide for social workers conducting home visits to assess the holistic health and well-being of their clients. Over the years of practice, I have also found this tool useful.

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Beautiful Voyager

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Photo by Matthew Waring Signs, Symptoms, Prevention, and Treatment When confronted with intense emotions, some teens may turn to self-harm , such as cutting, as a means of coping. Familiarize yourself with this self-harming behavior so you'll know what to do when your teenager engages in it. What Is Teen Cutting?

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Collaboration with clients in all aspects of LTSS planning and provision … to maximize dignity and self-determination.” Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission.

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Social Work Haven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Helps us understand our role as social workers. What are the 9 core social work competencies in the UK? Values and Ethics.   Identify and behave as a professional social worker, committed to professional development. Social workers are members of an internationally recognised profession.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

MAY 7, 2023

Welcome to REAL Social Workers Online Magazine This is the place for social workers to Relax, Empower, Advocate and Learn. I am Marcyline Bailey, a licensed clinical social worker with close to 30 years of experience. So, why share this on a blog for social workers. According to Zippia 83.9%

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

JANUARY 17, 2024

Welcome to the REAL Social Workers Online Magazine this is the place where we support and encourage social workers, like me, through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care. In traditional CBT, we work together to identify thought patterns, and thought content that cause harm or distress.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

To become a Best Interests Assessor, social workers have to be registered with Social Work England for at least 2 years and enrol on a postgraduate BIA-DOLS qualification. P enjoys going out for a meal, attending and engaging in church activities, colouring, painting and talking about her childhood memories.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The local authority children services also have a duty to safeguard children, who may be at risk of harm. How do you prepare for a social work interview? Preparing for a social work interview within children’s services requires you to prepare with intention. Why do you want to be a social worker?

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. By Corinne May-Chahal and Sarah Carlick Many think digital safeguarding is about staying safe online but it means much more.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 17, 2023

Over time, repeated, long-term exposure to these hormones can cause harm to the body’s functions. Club I am Marcyline Bailey, a licensed clinical social worker with over 30 years of experience. Stress Talk” was created to help women over 40 live healthy lives through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 17, 2023

Over time, repeated, long-term exposure to these hormones can cause harm to the body’s functions. Club I am Marcyline Bailey, a licensed clinical social worker with over 30 years of experience. Stress Talk” was created to help women over 40 live healthy lives through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 27, 2023

The role of the social worker involves engaging with people at points of crisis or need. The emotion wheel comes in handy for social workers to help manage and work through difficult emotions. An understanding of the emotion wheel is useful for helping social workers and clients communicate their emotions better.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As a Newly Qualified Social Worker a few years ago, I understood that to become effective at what I do as a social worker , there was a need for me to write good Care Act 2014 needs assessments. A needs assessment is carried out by social services to decide your care and support needs.

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Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

This involves judging whether the person would be deprived of their liberty under the proposed arrangement and, if so, whether this is would be in their best interests, necessary to protect them from harm and proportionate to the severity and likelihood of that harm.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As a social worker have you ever stopped to think about what makes Tuesday such a special day of the week? However, let’s pause for a moment and reconsider this day that falls squarely in the middle of our workweek as a social worker. Could reading some Tuesday Positive Quotes and Images make it special?

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

By JaBree Harris, MSW Democracy is not self-sustaining. As social workers, we are not just service providers, we are advocates, organizers, and protectors of civil rights. Thats why the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) firmly opposes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act (H.R.22/S.128).

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

This training is required for all mandated reporters, who include both professionals (doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, etc.) I had taken the training several times in the past–first for my work as a social worker with CFSA and later as a mentor to a foster youth. and volunteers who work with children.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As social workers, sometimes we may have feelings that hurt or emotions that sting the most. REMEMBER, quotes can help uplift and inspire you as a social worker. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. This scholarship, created by Mary and her late husband, Raymond, will provide financial support to a student enrolled in the Bachelor of Social Work program.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

How to Address the Social Determinants of Suicide. To properly address the social determinants of suicide, organizations can engage in activities that both directly and indirectly improve the mental health of their clients.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

The panel, which examined 393 cases, found an over-optimism concerning parents’ capacity to give safe care and an over-reliance on parental self-report, with missed “opportunities” to triangulate this information with that from other sources.

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2024

Though the inquiry stressed that Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden were responsible for the 10-month-old’s death on Christmas Day, 2020 – for which they were jailed for life last year – it said practitioners knew that the couple posed a risk of significant harm to him.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

Most people in the room were engaged with others, with the exception of one older woman who stood apart, her back against the wall with her arms crossed over her chest. I was self-employed and wondered if this hiatus would have an effect on my income and reputation. I’m self-employed,” I started. It was my turn next.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

Cohen As readers digest the report that follows, the content may cause significant discomfort stemming from painful, lived personal experiences and perspectives shaped by social constructs made implicit through centuries of white supremacy and structural oppression. The decision would then be conveyed to the social worker and supervisor.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Part one of NCCPRs news and commentary year in review for 2024 Tomorrow: Part two looks at some of 2024s finest journalism exploring wrongful removal and other harms to children caused by our current system of family policing. As a result, she reportedly suffered significant physical and emotional harm.

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 5, 2025

No surprise, it was predominantly reflections on his self-perceived greatness. There were human props, those persons Trump pointed out that helped feed his narrative that others either love him, or suffered egregious harm or loss due to the previous president. Do not give space to hate or your social media a place to propagate hate.

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