Insights #14 In this Episode Stephen talks to Barbara Starn about mindfulness and her book The Mindful Social Worker: Living Your Best Social Work Life published by Critical Publishing

Available here https://www.criticalpublishing.com/the-mindful-social-worker

and here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindful-Social-Worker-Living-social/dp/1915080355/

Jamie, George and Stephen are joined by Joe Hanley in the role of Marley as Social Work is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future! Festive fun and delights!

In this episode of the podcast Stephen talks to Faith Walkwell about her role as a Social Prescriber to find out just what that is and what the role sets out to achieve. Stephen and Faith worked together in practice as Social Workers in Sunderland City Council in the Older Peoples Service before moving into other roles.

If you wanted to read more there's a Kings Fund article here 

Jamie, George and Stephen - three friends - delve into some philosophical ideas and think about the impact on them as social workers and on social work practice. This time they are joined by Freya Scorer as they talk about Social Work as a job, an art and a science, and try to decide which it is!

They're at it again - the Beers and Ideas amigos - Jamie, George and Stephen - three friends delve into some philosophical ideas and think about the impact on them as social workers and on social work practice. This time it's Adorno and the Yale lock - capitalism, revolution, and social work!

In this episode Stephen looks at the dirty word that is Resilience. Having spotted on Twitter that someone was outraged that their wife had been told to 'bake a cake' as this would help build resilience Stephen wanted to explore resilience and try to promote the positive aspects of resilience building and resilience in general... noting however that baking a cake results in no more than having a cake that you've baked. Resilience is dependent on two things - yes - what we do ourselves but also the environment we then have to do what we do in.

In this episode of the podcast Stephen talks to George Bull, Social Work Shorts writer, looking at his latest article Social Work Change, Priti Patel and Gauss  Linear and non-linear Problems.

You can find the article here http://www.socialworkshorts.co.uk/2022/06/16/social-work-change-priti-patel-and-gauss-linear-and-non-linear-problems/

And here are some links to things that get mentioned in the podcast and the article!

Gauss the prince of maths (In our TIme) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gbnfj

Lorenz - In Our Time Chaos theory https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548f6

Strange attractor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjP90rwpBwU

Butterly effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGlmJ6ZXBds

Status Quo Match Stick men !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huybJRdzyNk

In this episode of the podcast Stephen talks to Angela Kirwin author of 'Criminal: How Our Prisons Are Failing Us All' about the reality of being 'behind the wall'. You can find out more about Angela here - https://www.angelakirwin.com/ 

You can buy her book here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Criminal-How-Our-Prisons-Failing/dp/1398705837 and from other places

In this episode of the podcast Stephen talks to fellow Social Work Shorts writer George Bull about his latest article "Churning the soil - Caring Professions - and Madonna". You can find the article here - George explores how, like soil, when a work force is depleted it can't function to do its job.

In the latest episode of the Social Work Podcast Insights series Stephen talks to Matt Graham Senior Lecturer in Social Work at UCLAN and co-author of A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 about some aspects of the Mental Capacity Act

You can buy Matt's book here

If you want to join us it would be good to have a discussion over on our Discord Server which you can link to at this link Social Works Shorts brings you Social Work UK on Discord