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| Great News - Yvonne is back |
 Welcome back to Yvonne who joined us again in the New Year. Yvonne has been on maternity leave for 9 months and having shown her son Alfie what a wonderful mum she is, she has returned to play her part in the High Wycombe team. Primarily she is going to be working together with Sam in ensuring that the finance department works smoothly. Our thanks also go to Sam for doing such a fantastic job in holding the fort whilst Yvonne has been away.
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| Cognitive Behaviour Therapy |
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Last week another of our popular in house training workshops was delivered by Muriel Moore, one of our locums who is currently studying CBT at Goldsmith's college in London. Muriel is a very experienced mental health social worker and approved social worker. There were some positive inputs on how CBT could be used in practice. 10 people attended the workshop. They learned that 'People are disturbed not by things, but their view of things'. This is a quote form Epictetus, a roman philosopher, who realised that is our interpretation of situations which affect our mood. The training covered how people's beliefs are influenced by their core beliefs and locums were shown how to help service users create thought records to help them challenge their faulty or unhelpful thinking.
The information was stimulating and many said they would like a follow up session to look at how CBT can be used to help clients with their depression or anxiety.
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| One minute in the life of... |
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 Welcome to a new feature in the SW2k newsletter telling us a little bit more about the locums who work for us. Please email Vicki if you would like to be featured.
This month we interviewed Simone Mensah. Simone has been working for SocialWork 2000 since December 2004. She joined us as a Social Worker and is now working as a Senior Practitioner in a Children's Disabilities Team in Bedfordshire.
What 3 items would you take with you to a desert island? My partner, eight hour Elizabeth Arden protectant and my iPod
Are you an indoor or an outdoor person? Indoor
Where is your favourite place to eat? My local Italian
What is your favourite Disney film? Lion King
Are you a cat or a dog person? Dog
Do you eat cold cereal at night? Yes
Kill the spider or let it out? Let it out
If you could be someone else for a day who would you be? Oprah Winfrey
Where is your favourite place? Thailand - Ko Phi Phi Island
What do you do on Friday nights? Relax
Performing arts, fine art or sports? Sports
What makes you laugh? Watching Richard Pryor in stand up
What makes you cry? Seeing children suffer on the news
Riding horses or riding dolphins? Riding dolphins
Boat or bus? Boat
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| Double Jeopardy? Finding and supporting families for foetally affected minority ethnic children |
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This conference was designed following the recent study Pathways to Permanence for black, Asian and mixed ethnicity children: dilemmas, decision-making and outcomes, funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. The study aimed to explore minority ethnic children's care careers, and to consider possible differences in decision-making and outcomes for minority ethnic children in comparison with white children.
Mothers of the children in the sample of this study were found to have had high levels of alcohol and drug addiction. Because of this profile, about 30% of all the mixed ethnicity children were born showing symptoms of alcohol/neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Click here for more information.
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| Making Research Count |
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For details of all the forthcoming training and conferences available through Making Research Count, click here to access the latest newsletter.
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Regular visitors should have noticed a fresh feel to our website. Vicki and Shelli have worked very hard during the Autumn together with our marketing company 247 media to bring it up to date. We are very proud of our team and the work they do and you will see that they are featured throughout all our promotional material. What a job I had persuading everyone to let me use their photos - such a modest lot!