RCPsych Young People’s Christmas Debate: is social media bad for your mental health?
Earlier this week I ran the video below: NASW Leaders Resist Takeover of Our Membership Association
A colleague asked me to run this NASW response:
Update on NASW’s Modernization Initiative.
One of my guiding principles is: Follow the money.
Race, Ethnicity and Old Age: Re-animating Ageing Bodies of Colour | Dr Sweta Rajan-Rankin
Brains, Hearts and Heroin Addiction: Medicine in VR | 360 Video
McMafia: The scale of human trafficking in numbers
Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic
Helping Feed Vermonters
Range and Limitations of the Monitoring the Future Survey
NASW Leaders Resist Takeover of Our Membership Association
We’re Here to Stay
Inside a Suicide Prevention Center in Puerto Rico
The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research
Dr. Wilson Compton on the 2017 Monitoring the Future (MTF)
The Miners’ Strike Taught Me to Think Critically – Gabriel Byrne on RAI (2/4)
How do you deal with emotionally difficult cases?
Concerns Raised About $1 Billion Facial Scan Program with High Error Rate at Nine U.S. Airports
Global Capitalism: What The Tax “Reform” Means To Us All
Obama Chose Wall St. Over Main St. – Thomas Frank on RAI (8/9)
The hurricane that destroyed an island | UNICEF
NIDAMED Web Portal
A Place to Play for Children of All Abilities
Social Work Q&A – Ep. 4 – Rewards
China has been building what it calls “the world’s biggest camera surveillance network”
Apple: The Biggest Tax Cheaters in History Repatriate Profits Under Trump’s Tax Bill
How Tax Breaks for Wealthy Developers Fueled an Affordable Housing Crisis in Baltimore
The gap between rich and poor – The Divide (2/2)
Undoing the New Deal: Clinton Rolled Back the Deal, Obama Blew a FDR Moment (pt6)
Historian Gerald Horne says that President Clinton’s “reforms” were a staggering blow to the social safety net; President Obama had a rare political moment where he could have created a modern New Deal, but he wouldn’t do it.
Grenfell Tower Survivors: 6 Months On
ADHD Parenting – Sadia Sammeeullah
Pakistani Canadian social worker Sadia Sammeeullah shares her experience in the diagnosis and treatment of her son’s ADHD.
“The Rape of Recy Taylor”: How Rosa Parks Helped a Sharecropper Report Her Assault & Seek Justice
A new film looks at the 1944 gang rape of Recy Taylor, a 24-year old black mother and sharecropper. Following the rape, she refused to be silenced and spoke up with help from the NAACP’s chief rape investigator Rosa Parks.
Sexism and the system – Sally Campbell
Life on the line in eastern Ukraine | UNICEF
Eastern Ukraine is one of the most mine-contaminated places on Earth. The scars of war run deep for eastern Ukraine’s youngest citizens after nearly four years of volatile conflict.
Undoing the New Deal: African-Americans, Racism and the FDR/Johnson Reforms (Pt5)
Stella Smith, Principal Social worker at Tower Hamlets
Five things you may not know about homelessness
Jeane Freeman responds to Social Security stage one report – BSL translation
The Anti-Protest Gear Used in Venezuela | NYT Investigates
A state-owned company in Beijing is turning military vehicles into riot-control systems, complete with water cannons and tear gas launchers. Then it’s selling them to rogue nations like Venezuela, known for trampling on human rights.
Stuff UNICEF Cares About: Holiday Special | UNICEF
New bill would require all police precincts to have social worker on staff
Improving trauma triage with a video game
Diagnosis requires the clinician to collect and integrate complex, uncertain, information from multiple sources. To do this they use a heuristic cognitive process – a combination of pattern recognition and simplifying assumptions.
Risks that Social Workers face when providing E-services to their clients
Agents of Change for Foster Youth: Faces of those Whose Serve Children First
Using the internet for the first time in Cameroon | UNICEF
Schools, Children and Family Wellbeing Service | Catholic Care Leeds
2017 TANF Summit Plenary: The American Safety Net – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Keynote Speaker Alvin Finkel: Legacies of Social Welfare Work in Canada Conference Series
Improving welfare for Scotland’s homeless pets
Undocumented Youth in the United States—Progress in the Face of Precarity
Undoing the New Deal: Roosevelt Created A Social Safety Net, Not Socialism (pt3)