Have you heard any information about an accredited international SW degree (over 20 years old) by the Council of Social Work Education (CWSE) and how it can benefit the applicant to apply to the advanced MSW Program instead of the standard MSW program?

“Anyone know of social workers that help navigate ALF options, associated costs, financial aid possibilities, etc for families who have a family member with dementia and are looking for long term care? Asking as I am not sure if there is someone who can help us navigate this process, rather than calling each ALF one by one and so forth. We live in Maryland. Thanks!”

HELP !!!

I am two weeks away from my LMSW exam and not feeling super great about it after scoring a 91 on the AWSB practice exam. Many have mentioned that they used the social work exam bootcamp but I am tight on finances right now. Does anyone have the material to share ?

Thanks in advance

Hello,

Sorry to bother but I am a student in college who is interested in becoming a social worker. For a class I have to interview a current social worker in person or online (zoom) to find out more about the career. I would only need 20 minutes of your time.

Thank you

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I’m a 50year old female. I have nieces and nephews that are now grown with small children of their own. They grew up in dysfunctional and emotional and verbally abusive households and through their lives I’ve tried to help and be there for them. I would buy cloths, birthday gifts and even send money to their mothers annually. I’ve gone so far as to try and adopt 2 of the girls at different times in their lives to offer support and stability and love only to get abused by my sisters and mother for trying to help.Currently: my 21 year old niece has a 1 year old. Her mother has been providing child care and has decided not to any longer. She says it’s because the niece is ungrateful and neglectful to the 1 year old. And she will only continue care if given Full custody. My own mother and 2nd sister have also refused to help my niece because of her attitude and have gone so far as to call the police on her in an effort to remove custody from my niece.My niece chose to marry at the court house the babies father. they yelland fight and do not get along. I have offered to my niece to move from the east coast to the west coast were I live so I can help her get a job and child care for her 1hear old to help her stabilize. (Because her mother, auntie and grandmother won’t help with child care, my niece has been unable to go to work and was fired from her job)

I brought my niece to the west coast 10/18 and had an interview at a child care center setup for her. She would pay 1/2 for child care and have a good steady job with weekends off benefits and holidays. She agreed to go to the interview and try for the job before she arrived. She stayed with me for the week before I had to leave for work 10/24 to texas for a few days. ft I left for 1 day and she text me saying she doesn’t want the job at a daycare because that doesn’t feel like a career to her and that she wants to join the army. She has not taken and passed the ASVAB tests and says there is a 90day program on the east coast she wants to do but she would need me to watch her year old child without any power of attorney documents. I to,d her this was not what we discussed and she became upset

she did go to the interview but continued to tell me she doesn’t know if she will accept the job. This is not acceptable as I can not care for her and a pre toddler without her having a job and earning an income to support herself and her child she also has a divorce date setup for 11/2 on the east coast and of course needs my financial help to get there as she has no money for a place to stay or a vehicle

We get to the east coast and she tells me that she will place her 1year old with her cousin to attend to the 90day asvab school on the east coast. This is to start 11/15 but she would still like to return to west coast with me (50/50) if she will accept the job, and the recruiter would help her get to east coast by bus. I said okay because eit looks like she is getting a plan together and I want to stick to what I said. So preparations are being made for her child to stay with the cousin as we speak.She has her divorce court appointment and demands alimony and child support postponing the finalization of the divorce proceedings. She then lies to the husband and says the cousin is adopting the 1year old and says she is feeling bad about leavin* the child on the east coast while she returns to the west coast. AITAif I leave her on the east coast? This whole situation is getting out of hand and costing me a lot of m6 resources and is a lot of drama in a short time. From 10/18-11/2. She has kept to nothing agreed upon and expects me to foot the travel bill, lodging and food. We are do to return to the west coast 11/3

I am an Licensed Master Level Social Worker In the State of Texas looking to obtain my License as a Clinical social Worker (LCSW).
Will the 3000 hours of supervised clinical social work experience count if I take a position under Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who has her on own independent practice or do these hours only count if your supervised by an LCSW? And seek 100 hours of direct supervision from an outside source who is a board approved LCSW?

Any advice for a parent struggling with caring for her young adult daughter that was in a car accident at 13 and suffered severe TBI? Daughters frontal lobe was obliterated and she now has no filter and becomes violent without warning. Mom can’t take anymore of the abuse. Daughter was in OPWDD group homes but was kicked out due to behaviors. Is there anywhere she can be placed where they will understand and treat the behaviors? In NYS but mom is desperate and open to anything anywhere. TIA

Hey there! I'm hoping someone with have some advice on this-
Have any of you been asked to sign a VCO exception form? If so, did you? What are your thoughts? Ethical considerations?

A VCO form is a document that is now mandatory for a juvenile court system to have completed within 24 hours of detaining a juvenile status offender. Essentially, if a juvenile is taken to a detention center by the courts, the court is required to have a VCO exception form completed by a mental health professional within 24 hours as a way to deter courts from detaining low level offenders. Due to the reasoning and purpose behind a VCO exception form, I'd imagine that licensing boards have some feelings on if licensees should even partake in the process? Any thoughts or feedback would be helpful.

Has anyone gone to AU online for their MSW? I got accepted, but in researching, cannot find reviews on the school. Please let me know!

Im looking for online programs that dont require letters of recommendation

Hello, I am an MSW student at the University of Texas at Arlington and was wondering if I could interview someone for an assignment.

The prompt is to ask any individual who delivers mental health services about three critical issues regarding mental health in detail. Honestly, you could probably post it here and I can turn it into an essay.

Thank you in advance fellow social workers.

I just transferred from Massachusetts to Florida to work at a VA hospital. I had an LICSW in mass. Florida doesn't have reciprocity. Seems like a pretty convoluted process to get licensed down here. Any one have any experience or insight?

Hello fellow social workers,

Me and my research partner are students at California State University, San Bernardino and are conducting a study to fulfill the requirements for our Master’s degree. The study explores the relationship between social workers’ adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their resilience in the field.

The survey is available online and accessed via the link below:

https://csusb.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXNKIeqD1s4Shx4

To participate in this study, you must currently or previously have been employed in a social worker position.

You will not directly benefit from this study. However, our hope is that the information learned from this study will benefit the field of social work and our understanding of how to better meet the needs of social workers. This study is completely voluntary but participation is greatly appreciated.

Cross posted in r/socialworkerresources and r/Legaladvice.

This whole post is a train wreck, sorry in advance.

Content warnings: SA, Financial Abuse, Emotional Abuse

Another, more important question:

Are there any resources for them to get out?

Are there any risks to exposing her?

Any advice is appreciated.

TL:DR Any advice would help. My friends adopted mother allowed them to be sexually assaulted as a teen, gets paid for keeping silent, manipulated my friend from the time they were a child that she HAD to take care of him because of their diabetes. She then neglected to help manage it to the point they now have lasting and chronic health conditions, and is now holdng their family financially hostage. To top it off she told them to their face had she known the abuser was a pedophile she would have chosen said pedophile over adopting children. HOW DO WE MAKE THIS BITCH PAY?! Legally.

A was adopted at 5 years old by a couple of school teachers. A is now in their late 20s with a spouse and young children, and they are all being essentially held hostage by the lady who adopted A. She has manipulated them into being financially dependent on her under the guise of helping them.

A has trouble keeping work due to unmanaged childhood diabetes, again, the fault of this woman who was supposed to help raise them. A has tried for years to get on disability because they are not able to keep employment as they are in and out of the hospital every couple of months. They have are on their second appeal and recently got another job that hopefully will be flexible enough that their attendance will not get them fired.

A’s wife, B, moved in at 20 to be with them and escape a separate family abuse situations.

Shortly after, they got pregnant. As soon the pregnancy was found viable this woman encouraged B to stop working "for now" and has since continued to incrementally gain financial control over the family. This was done by steadily convincing them that they are incapable and that she is helping them. Now that they are working, she has stopped working and makes them dependent on her by providing “childcare.” This situation is obviously not ideal considering her history with abuse, but as she is continuously demanding more money, they are unable to afford alternatives.

She demands that they (the couple) pay rent now that they have started working, which they have no problem with, but she has continued to increase the amount. It has gone from $300 to them being expected to pay the entire note of $1000. That will be more than half of their combined paychecks. On the other hand, she regularly allows people that A and B have repeatedly asked not be allowed onto the property into the home, eats half or more of their food stamps, expects them to wait on her hand and foot, as well as maintain the house they are all living in while refusing to maintain any of the house herself. It has fallen into disrepair to the point that to tend to the children they have to cook meals and ensure their family bathes at friends’ houses. They have tried for years to get out and are to a point where they could feesably start saving up to move. But, she is constantly demanding more money from them. They are afraid that if they take the wrong actions, their children will get taken away because of the state of the house.

As for the sexual abuse: this woman allowed every single one of her adopted children to be SAd by her husband, stating that she "had no idea" about what was going on under her roof despite being told about it multiple times. It all came to a head a couple years ago when the man was caught on camera trying to grope his now adult adopted child. When she saw proof that could not be ignored she begrudgingly divorced the man. She then made some sort of agreement that she would not report him for this abuse nor bring it up in their legal proceedings if he paid her a certain amount of money “to help his victims." But she does not use it for that, she uses it and most of her other money on her own recreational expenses. She has plainly told A and B that if they talk about it, she will have their children taken. She regularly brings up the entire situation as though she is the victim of the whole ordeal, even going as far as to tell one of his victims that if she had known about him being a pedophile, she still would have married him, she just wouldn’t have had children.

These things are just the very surface. I am really trying to make this an organized post and include all the important details, but it all makes me so angry I can hardly see straight. I hope that I conveyed how deeply manipulated A and B have been. They are afraid of having the children taken away because of the state of the house and the fact that the woman threatens to call any time they do something that makes her unhappy. They want their kids out so badly and have been trying for so long, do any of y’all have any suggestions?

Also they never stopped teaching after this until the woman retired recently. As far as I know he still teaches.

As for my question: what can I do, as A and B’s friend, to make sure she is held accountable?

Tennessee, USA

Hello fellow social workers,

Me and my research partner are students at California State University, San Bernardino and are conducting a study to fulfill the requirements for our Master’s degree. The study explores the relationship between social workers’ adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their resilience in the field.

The survey is available online and accessed via the link below:

https://csusb.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXNKIeqD1s4Shx4

To participate in this study, you must currently or previously have been employed in a social worker position.

You will not directly benefit from this study. However, our hope is that the information learned from this study will benefit the field of social work and our understanding of how to better meet the needs of social workers. This study is completely voluntary but participation is greatly appreciated.

I am looking for resources for a clients teenage children. The client recently passed away and my agency is working with the family to process the grief and get them set up with continued services.

Looking to start my private practice as an LCSW. What advice wld u give to me who is thinking about hiring msw’s and compensating them with clinical hours.

-Yes I have malpractice insurance -This is in Ca

• open to pay them per session as well (how much is reasonable?)

-telehealth

Ty! Lmk if ur interested.

Hi Social Workers! Here is a Mock Therapy Session for Anxiety. I looked at the group rules before I posted this and hope that this is ok to post. I hear from a lot of Social Workers how difficult it is to be expected to work in a clinical setting when you have not had a lot of examples of what therapy looks like or how to use various therapy techniques. Wanted to share this resource with you which is a mock therapy session on how to use CBT interventions with a client experiencing anxiety. Hope this helps. If you have any questions, please let me know!

Hey everyone, So I am completing my last MSW placement as a therapist. What resources did you guys do to learn how to provide therapy? My experience is in case management type roles with a splash of psychotherapy. My placement is outpatient and I have about 6 clients a day (if they show up). I hate therapy and I feel completely unprepared. There was no shadowing opportunities or actual training. I was thrown in.

Hello all, I just graduated with my MSW degree in April. I live in MI and I plan on moving out of state soon. I am wondering if there are any states where I can take the ASWB exam without having to first wait 2 years to acquire supervision hours. The rules recently changed in MI and I can't seem to find concrete information online. Thanks!

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I’ve personally been frustrated with the way our mental health care system currently works, where it can take days to weeks to even months to talk with someone and get some level of support with the issues I’m currently facing. I’ve always just wanted someone to talk with who can relate to some of the feelings I’m going through and has background working in the mental health space so that I trust them to be able to empathize and support me. I’m hoping this free platform we just launched may provide some people with the support they need during the days they aren’t able to get a hold of their traditional support system.

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Our profession is full of funny and hilarious stories. There is nothing better than ‘gallows humour’ as they say. If anyone has any funny stories to share please head to r/SocialWorkerHumour and share!

Please remember confidentiality!

Hi. I'm a new School Social Worker (1st year) and I have a pushy parent requesting I meet with their student 4-5x. That's virtually impossible with a caseload of 50+ students, upcoming evaluations, and only being placed in that school part-time. I often find myself struggling to explain to families why school-based services do not replace those of an outside therapist. Can anyone provide wording or a good explanation for me to provide to families that is understandable? It does not seem to be clicking when I do it.

I'm an adult woman and I'd like to start doing family therapy with my brother and mother online. However, I'm not sure how to go about finding a therapist that will be able to work with us since we're in New York, Ohio, and Washington DC. I know that licensure is usually granted on a per-state basis, so I'm not sure where that leaves us in terms of finding a therapist. Any guidance or resources would be greatly appreciated!