Mad World: March 2009 Archives

Changing perceptions of social work: let's follow Scotland's lead

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 31, 2009 1:22 PM | No Comments

Tomorrow social work chiefs in Scotland launch a PR offensive to try to improve the public perception of social workers.

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Should all teenagers be screened for depression?

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 30, 2009 12:37 PM | No Comments

In the US there have been calls to screen all teenagers for depression, in a bid to prevent the condition before it takes hold.

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From gang member to social worker

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 27, 2009 12:49 PM | No Comments

Canadian newspaper the Vancouver Sun has an account of a gang member who turned his life around to become a social worker and academic.

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Why won't the government promote social work as a career?

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 26, 2009 12:23 PM | No Comments

Care services minister Phil Hope is to spend a day as a social care worker to help promote the government's campaign to get more people working in social care.

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Oppositional defiant disorder - does it really exist?

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 25, 2009 3:34 PM | 5 Comments

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has produced a pdf guide to oppositional defiant disorder, which they explain is:

a pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior directed toward authority figures.

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Study links depression to thinning of brain cortex

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 25, 2009 10:51 AM | No Comments

There's a story in the New York Times about a new study which links depression with a thinning of the brain wall.

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Lawyer With Schizophrenia Says Analysis Saved Her Life

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 23, 2009 4:48 PM | No Comments

Spotted this piece when I was looking through my feed reader.

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Things that make you happy and ecopsychology

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 23, 2009 2:01 PM | No Comments

Psychology Today has asked people on the street what makes them happy.

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Misconceptions about social work in Singapore

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 23, 2009 10:17 AM | 1 Comment

There's a debate going on in CareSpace about popular social work misconceptions in the UK.

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Other people know you better than you do

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 20, 2009 2:33 PM | No Comments

Ask someone else, even a stranger, to predict whether you will like something and they will make a better job of it than you would.

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Narcissistic personality disorder

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 20, 2009 1:59 PM | No Comments

What is narcissistic personality disorder and why does everyone seem to have it? This is title of an interesting piece in Slate.

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Depressed people have trouble appreciating good things in life

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 19, 2009 5:00 PM | No Comments

Depression might be more about failing to appreciate positive experiences, rather than focusing on negative ones, new research suggests.

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Media coverage of Laming report reviewed

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 13, 2009 2:45 PM | No Comments

Perhaps it was just me but I found a great deal of the reporting of the Laming report quite heartening.

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New social work student blog

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 13, 2009 2:32 PM | No Comments

There's a new blog on CareSpace by a social work student, who talks about her life and experience on her course. It's worth checking out.

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Therapists, choice and The Matrix

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 13, 2009 12:04 PM | No Comments

Have been doing a lot of work on Community Care's campaign for fair treatment of social workers in the media recently, so haven't had much time for mental health blogging. I did spot these few items though.

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New guidance on reporting suicide: learning from Bridgend

By Derren Hayes on March 12, 2009 4:26 PM | No Comments

By Derren Hayes

I saw first hand the devastating impact that the press coverage of the suicides of young people in the Bridgend area of Wales had on the whole community last year.

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Stand Up Now for Social Work: opinion piece

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 11, 2009 3:10 PM | 1 Comment

I've done an opinion piece for journalism.co.uk about how the coverage of social work issues in the media needs to improve, to tie in with our Stand Up Now for Social Work campaign.

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Stand Up Now for Social Work: campaign launched

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 11, 2009 1:35 PM | No Comments

Community Care today launches its Stand Up Now for Social Work campaign, which aims to get fairer treatment for social workers in the media.

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Samantha Morton joins Unison jobs demo in Nottingham

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 9, 2009 4:12 PM | 1 Comment

Mad World doesn't get many opportunities to feature celebs in its posts, so I have grabbed this particular opportunity to feature a picture of Samantha Morton.

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Rules for being human

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 9, 2009 2:34 PM | No Comments

Catatonic Kid has 10 rules for being human - which I like.

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Salmond stands up for social workers

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 6, 2009 11:54 AM | No Comments

It's good to see a politician stand up for social workers for a change. Alex Salmond said social workers were not to blame in the Brandon Muir case.

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Living a biblical life for a year

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 4, 2009 11:29 AM | No Comments

Here is a man who could teach other journalists a thing or two about really immersing yourself in the stories you are covering - having spent a year trying to adhere as literally as possible to the rules of the bible.

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Nudity, diaries and music therapy

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 3, 2009 1:15 PM | 1 Comment

It looks like there will be an interesting Horizon programme on BBC tonight, looking at why human feel shame at being naked and whether it can be unlearned.

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Stress, depression, doodling and spelling

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 2, 2009 2:29 PM | No Comments

Scientists have discovered a protein linking long-term stress and depression, well at least in rats anyway.

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Recruitment from US and social workers facing abuse

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on March 2, 2009 11:55 AM | No Comments

The "Baby P factor" is said to be forcing Croydon Council to try to recruit social workers from the US, as fewer people turn to the profession given the media witch hunt.

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March 2009 Archives