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. Throughout the Self-Care in Social Work, Cox and Steiner draw upon their extensive clinical and academic experience as social work faculty.
Social Work Blog
JANUARY 19, 2023
It is one thing to share your own experience living with mental illness, but to suggest that mental illness is not real or should be dealt with without the guidance of a trained professional can be harmful. A good place to start is the US Department of Health and Human Services administration, which operates a suicide and crisis Lifeline.
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Relias
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Self-stigma: This is defined as the internalization of negative stereotypes. Often there is worry that talking about mental health and suicide will cause more harm than help. When individuals experiencing suicidal ideation cannot discuss the pain they are in, they begin to self-stigmatize and are at much greater risk of dying.
Relias
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
As a care professional in the human services industry, you’re most likely familiar with the common risk factors and warning signs for suicide, but there are other important factors to consider, like social determinants of health (SDOH) which play a large role in substance use disorders (SUDs) and depression.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 22, 2023
They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities. She’s even part of a group that rushed to defend a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor beloved by Tucker Carlson.
Relias
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
Just as individual practices like self-care can ground you through hardship, building organizational resilience can help your clinicians and staff weather hard times. When clinicians experience burnout, they may have weaker boundaries, harming clients through effects like counter-transference.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? The errors go in all directions, and all of these errors harm children. ? Another criterion: “The degree of harm alleged to the child.” Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.
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