NASW-MS is concerned on this effort:
NLIHC
Releases Case Studies Highlighting Successes of Five ERASE Cohort Members
Nationwide Low Earnings Housing Coalition
NLIHC launched right this moment a set of case research highlighting the successes of
5 members of the 2021-2022 Finish Rental Arrears to Cease Evictions (ERASE)
cohort: Connecticut Honest Housing Coalition, Idaho Asset Constructing Community,
Prosperity Indiana, Preserve Detroiters within the Their Houses Coalition, and Hope
Coverage Institute & Mississippi NAACP. The case research overview the
actions undertaken by cohort members to be certain that emergency rental
help (ERA) was seen and accessible to the lowest-income households in
their communities and that ERA succeeded in stopping displacement.
Kara Carter and Mercedes Bern-Klug are members of NASW-IA:
A
new mindset on mental health
College of Iowa
When Kara Carter began out as a practitioner of social work in
southern Colorado, she shortly discovered that her experience in psychological well being
was badly wanted—not simply by the hospice company that employed her, however by the
group she lived in. “I used to be in all probability one of many few licensed
professionals within the county, and I’d be requested to talk with kids who had been
going by way of numerous tragedies or to a youth membership that had misplaced a scholar or
to begin a assist group for fogeys who’ve misplaced kids. And I discovered myself
feeling ill-equipped,” says Carter, now a fourth-year doctoral scholar in
social work at Iowa.
Yvonne Chase is president-elect of NASW:
4
things to know about a master’s degree in social work
Fortune
The grasp’s diploma is the common customary for superior social work
observe says Yvonne Chase, president-elect of the board of administrators for
the National Association of
Social Workers. She’s additionally an affiliate professor on the College of
Alaska-Anchorage. “The MSW does open the doorways to many different issues—you possibly can go
into non-public observe, you possibly can work within the authorities methods,” Chase
tells Fortune. “It’s the MSW that you just really want to maneuver ahead
and that offers you the pliability to maneuver into all these numerous specialty
areas.”
Yvonne Chase is president-elect of NASW:
When
should social workers separate families? A federal lawsuit raises thorny
questions
The Telegraph
However social staff aren’t out to get kids; they’re making an attempt to guard
them, mentioned Yvonne Chase, president-elect of the Nationwide Affiliation of
Social Staff. When a hospital, faculty, neighbor or older baby studies
mistreatment, social staff apply a danger evaluation to find out how companies
ought to reply, she mentioned. “The kid protecting company doesn’t create the
studies of hurt. Anyone calls us,” mentioned Chase, a former head of kid
protecting companies in Alaska and Washington. “If a toddler is being critically
abused, they could be very completely satisfied to see that some reduction is coming.”
You can be a
mental health advocate
The Uptake
Many therapists are concerned in activism and advocacy. The truth is, the National
Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics states: “Social
staff pursue social change, significantly with and on behalf of weak and
oppressed people and teams of individuals. Social staff’ social change
efforts are targeted totally on problems with poverty, unemployment,
discrimination, and different types of social injustice. These actions search to
promote sensitivity to and information about oppression and cultural and ethnic
range. Social staff attempt to make sure entry to wanted info,
providers, and assets; equality of alternative; and significant participation
in resolution making for all individuals.”
Viola Vaughan-Eden is a member of NASW-VA:
VCU
School of Social Work alum Viola Vaughan-Eden honored by Capitol Hill advocacy
institute
Virginia Commonwealth College
Viola Vaughan-Eden, a
Ph.D. alum of Virginia Commonwealth
University’s School of Social Work, has been incomes nationwide acclaim
for greater than a decade as an educator, researcher and advocate specializing in
baby maltreatment. The popularity continued this spring because the Congressional
Analysis Institute for Social Work and Coverage honored her as its 2023
Excellent Particular person in Academia. CRISP advocates for the social work
career with federal policymakers, and Vaughan-Eden has appeared twice on
Capitol Hill as a panelist for congressional briefings.
Phelica Glass is a member of NASW-KS:
[Video]
Knowing how to find mental health resources
WIBW
Licensed Medical Social Employee Phelica Glass joined Eye on
Northeast Kansas to speak about psychological well being assets, and understanding methods to discover
evaluation checks to assist decide what you or a liked one could be struggling
with. Self-assessment checks may be discovered at www.mhanational.org.
Phelica Glass additionally has many assets obtainable on the web site for her Topeka
observe, www.thegriefcounselor.com.
Angela Melzer is a member of NASW-CO:
Biofeedback
provides tool to move through trauma, life disruptions
Steamboat Pilot & At the moment
“Jane is a good addition as a result of individuals who don’t wish to instantly
deal with psychological points or who’re desirous to focus extra on bodily signs
of hysteria or trauma, it is a completely different and extra concrete technique to deal with
nervousness,” mentioned Angela Melzer, a licensed scientific social employee and proprietor of
Minds of Movement. “Oftentimes if individuals can begin to see they will management
their physique sensations or really feel empowered in what they will do, they’re extra
keen to handle underlying causes of hysteria or do deeper work.”
Amy Calmann is a member of NASW-NYC:
A
Mental Health Expert Explains What It Means To Receive A Dual Diagnosis
Well being Digest
Having two psychological well being problems without delay is known as a twin analysis,
says licensed scientific social employee and psychotherapist Amy Calmann.
“One instance of twin analysis could be somebody with bipolar dysfunction who
depends on alcohol,” she mentioned. “One other instance is somebody with
despair who’s reliant on opioids like heroin, or on the artificial opioid
prescription medicine, Fentanyl.” She says it’s a problem to know for
certain if one situation precipitated one other.
Jennifer Kelman is a member of NASW-FL:
Limiting
teens’ social media feels impossible. But we have to try.
The Washington Publish
The actual fact is, say specialists and oldsters alike, when teenagers are given
boundaries round telephones, they really feel reduction. “If children actually sat there and took
inventory of how they really feel once they’re on their gadgets, they might discover a drop
in feeling good about themselves,” says Jennifer Kelman, a
psychological well being professional with Just Answer, and scientific social employee specializing in
kids’s psychological well being. “All of us assume our children don’t need self-discipline and
boundaries, however they do. … If we simply allow them to have free rein, they really feel out
of management.”
Richard Brouillette is a member of NASW-CA:
2
Ways AI Fails at Therapy, and Why You Should Care
Psychology At the moment
As a therapist, I’ve watched this battle in psychological well being heating
up: Can AI be a great therapist? I recommend that the reply, as with
screenwriting, comes again to 2 elementary human traits which can’t be
simulated by a digital thoughts: creativity and empathy. These
two traits supply a helpful body for the AI debate: AI lacks creativity and
empathy since it may well solely ever rearrange the data it may well entry, in
ways in which might really feel actual, however shortly flip lifeless and unhelpful.
