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- What does ‘direct work’ in social work really mean?
- ‘The mother requires 12-18 months of psychological therapy; unfortunately, this is not consistent with the child’s timescales.’
- Your help needed! Yes, you (maybe)! Parents with learning difficulties/disabilities and the family court
- A Summary of Key Ideas from ‘In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts’ by Gabor Mate
- A Compassionate Enquiry into Addiction
- Parental Advocacy: a FREE webinar
- How to be a Resilient Social Worker and Flourish in a Complex, Emotionally Demanding and Stressful Role (Part 2)
- How to be a Resilient Social Worker and Flourish in a Complex, Emotionally Demanding and Stressful Role (Part 1)
- 3 Reasons Why Direct Work in Child Protection is Challenging and 10 Principles to Overcome them and Build Effective, Meaningful relationships
- 5 books every front-line social worker should read in 2022 to make better decisions, build effective relationships, and improve the lives of children and families.
- 5 books every front-line social worker should read in 2022 to make better decisions, build effective relationships, and improve the lives of children and families.
- 5 books every front-line social worker should read in 2022 to make better decisions, build effective relationships, and improve the lives of children and families.
- 5 books every front-line social worker should read in 2022 to make better decisions, build effective relationships, and improve the lives of children and families.
- 5 books every front-line social worker should read in 2022 to make better decisions, build effective relationships, and improve the lives of children and families.
- End of year review 2021
- 5 points about the tragic death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes (we are unlikely to hear in the media)
- Reflexive Thematic Analysis – The What, Why and How
- The Case for Change: How to Help Children and Families
- Social Work and Conflict
- If I was in charge…
- Conversations with parents about Family Group Conferences
- How to manage resistance and have difficult conversations that make a difference
- Parental Advocacy: Building Bridges
- How the world is healthier, happier, and wealthier than ever – and what that might mean for Social Work
- Recording and Report Writing
- What I learnt attending Alcoholic’s Anonymous
- The Effects of Being in Care, Being Black and The Search for Belonging
- Working with Fathers: Challenging our perceptions of men
- We need to talk about resilience
- Carl Jung: Modern Man in Search of Soul: 10 lessons (part 2)
- Carl Jung: Modern Man in Search of Soul: 10 lessons (part 1)
- End of Year Review 2020
- Forrester versus Featherstone: A debate Part 3
- Forrester versus Featherstone: A debate Part 2
- Forrester Versus Featherstone: A debate Part 1
- Social Media and Social Work
- 10 Lessons from 10 years on the Frontline: 10, Asking for help
- 10 Lessons from 10 years on the Frontline: 9, Small Wins
- 10 Lessons from 10 years on the Frontline: 8, Some parents need long term support
- 10 Lessons from 10 Years on the Frontline: 7, Effective social work depends on effective time management
- 10 Lessons from 10 years on the Frontline: 6, Attachment and Trauma
- 10 Lessons from 10 Years on the Frontline: 5, The complexity of domestic abuse
- 10 Lessons from 10 Years on the Frontline: 4, Parenting courses don’t work (!?)
- 10 Lessons from 10 Years on the Frontline: 2, ‘Yesterday’s Children’ are ‘todays mothers and fathers’
- 10 Lessons from 10 Years on the Frontline: 3, Decision Making and Removing Children
- 10 Lessons from 10 Years on the Frontline: 1, Relationships Matter
- The problem with resilience
- Book review of The Ecology of Human Development (1979) by Urie Bronfenbrenner
- Critical cause of concern and critical cause of change
- Drugs, death and my decision to become a Social Worker
- “She prioritises her own needs above her child’s”
- A Reflection on a long career in Social Work
- Book Review: Protecting Children: A Social Model by Brid Featherstone, Anna Gupta, Kate Morris and Sue White (2018)
- Book Review; Erving Goffman’s Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- Why we don’t talk to children?
- Child protection practice in an evolving era
- A summary on the ‘WHY’ of writing a chronology
- 5 Tips for Social Workers Working at Home
- Social Work and Relationships: the illusion of separateness
- The role of ‘Kintsugi’ in contemporary child protection practice.
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