Lynn Stanley is govt director of NASW-NH:
Opinion:
Why does New Hampshire still allow children to get married?
Harmony Monitor
Elevating the age of marriage to 18 has been launched to our state
legislature repeatedly. However for some purpose, we can not go a easy
regulation to guard kids. The age was raised from 13 to 16 however it’s
inexplicably caught at 16. This isn’t about maturity, it’s about authorized rights
and obligations that people acquire once they flip 18, no matter
their maturity stage. If it was about maturity, we wouldn’t enable marriage
till the mind is absolutely developed at 27.
Marc Herstand is govt director of NASW-WI:
Following
National Trend, Wisconsin Lawmakers Introduce Book Ban
WORT
The Wisconsin chapter of the Nationwide Affiliation of Social Staff has
additionally registered on the invoice. Marc Herstand with the Wisconsin chapter
says that, the best way the invoice is written, it could possibly be used to forestall college students
from studying about necessary historic occasions. “So no one needs children to see
porn, okay,” Herstand says. “Let’s say that proper originally. Nevertheless,
the best way the invoice is written, we now have some considerations that it could restrict the
means of scholars of public faculties to get details about the Holocaust,
slavery, the Center Passage, issues which have been accomplished to Native Individuals,
and different holocausts which have occurred world wide.”
Jennifer Kelman is a member of NASW-FL:
5
Things Your Partner Says That Mean It’s Time for Counseling
BestLife
The early phases of a relationship are likely to really feel enjoyable and easy, however
the honeymoon part doesn’t final eternally. “After a while in a
relationship, issues can really feel stale and mundane,” says Jennifer
Kelman, LCSW, a mental health expert and licensed
psychotherapist on JustAnswer. “Folks get busy and it may be
exhausting to maintain the connection and romance alive, inflicting one to really feel that issues
really feel extra like friendship fairly than a romantic and intimate
relationship.”
Richard Brouillette is a member of NASW-CA:
Change
the Channel in Your Brain with this Journal Prompt
Psychology In the present day
There may be one easy and highly effective journaling method that you are able to do
for ten minutes a day that won’t solely enhance your each day life however give you
a robust basis of self-care on which you’ll construct bigger life modifications: the
self-talk journal. This self-talk method has a easy construction designed
to attach your mindsets and make you conscious of the totally different elements that make up
who you might be.
Andrea Vidrine is a member of NASW-LA:
The
Enneagram helps many understand habits, relationships, thought processes and
more.
The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
Although the Enneagram was not created by one individual or group, Georgian
thinker George Gurdjieff is credited with the image’s reintroduction to
the fashionable world round 1916, says Andrea Vidrine, a licensed scientific
social employee and interfaith/interspiritual minister who serves as a
companion to individuals in enneagram mentorship and religious course. Vidrine
mentioned that Gurdjieff didn’t assign traits or varieties to the numbers.
As an alternative, that’s credited to Bolivian thinker Oscar Ichazo and was
furthered by Claudio Naranjo, who introduced the knowledge to the States.
Meg McKeon and Willa J. Casstevens are members of NASW-IA:
Opinion:
Republican legislation targets vulnerable LGBTQ+ Iowans
Des Moines Register
Conversely, for presidency to both silence speech or compel it isn’t solely
unconstitutional, but additionally undermines the very cloth of American society.
Sadly, as historical past has lengthy proven us, governments appear unable to withstand
making an attempt. Why? As a result of if profitable, the silencers stay in energy. It
ought to come as no shock that Republican Iowa legislators, emboldened by
midterm wins and GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds’ rising nationwide star, really feel they’ve a
clean verify to focus their agenda on pandering to the acute component of the
conservative base by concentrating on LGBTQ+ Iowans.
Nakeia Alsup is a member of NASW-NC:
Democrats counter Republican-backed bill requiring schools to out transgender students to parents
The Pulse
Nakeia Alsup, a former college social employee, mentioned faculties should stay secure havens for college kids. “For some, college is likely one of the few locations the place college students
really feel secure, the place they really feel like they’ve an prolonged community of adults which have their greatest curiosity at coronary heart, the place they’ll really be themselves and ask wanted questions and get wanted assist,” Alsup mentioned.
Lawmakers
Consider Adding Social Workers as Comp Providers
WorkCompCentral
Maryland lawmakers on Monday offered carryover laws that may enable
licensed licensed social employees to diagnose injured employees with psychological
impairments. HB 694, which was scheduled for a listening to March 1, would
authorize a licensed licensed social employee to “register as a rehabilitation
practitioner and would authorize such a social employee to supply analysis
companies for employees’ compensation claims associated to everlasting impairments
involving a behavioral or psychological dysfunction.”
[Video]
Social worker provides insight on effect of school threats following hoax calls
made statewide
Fox47 (Lansing, MI)/YouTube
Ashlee Barnes-Lee is an assistant professor of social work at
Michigan State College who spends on numerous time on this subject. We
talked together with her after a number of faculties throughout the state, together with Okemos Excessive
College and Jackson Excessive College, skilled pretend capturing threats that compelled
the colleges into lockdown.
