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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 2d

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Social conditions of the past that affect us today

In my Social work history bites post earlier this week, I reflected on how ways of looking at the social conditions that created the past are still available to us in so many ways, on the Internet, in...

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 3d

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Bringing social activism into social work's community practice

Social work history in 20 books

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 4d

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Connecting with social work history

Learning about social issues

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 9d

So do spouses without psychiatric conditions also tend to marry each other?
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Spouses tend to share psychiatric conditions | BPS

Across cultures and generations, a huge new study suggests that those with psychiatric conditions prefer to marry those with similar diagnoses.

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 10d

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Workhouse-based cottage homes for children in the early 20th century

Stigma in a total institution

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 11d

Interesting report from a local hospice on how it's starting to work with local communities to respond to people's deaths and bereavement. Some good case studies, too.
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From Conversation to Connection: How St Christopher’s Is Listening to South East London’s Communities

Partnering with groups like the Pineapple Club, the hospice’s Community Action team is opening up honest conversations about culture, spirituality, and end-of-life care — and shaping services to truly...

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 11d

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Social work is about the social: but what's 'social'?

Is cohesion, collectivity and community always the best thing?

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 12d

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Keeping pressure on a clear target

Social work history in 20 books

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 14d

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The 'responsibility carousel' in domestic violence

'Articulation work' between 'expert cultures' clarifies who does what

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 16d

Interesting study which tries to distinguish being tolerated as a minority in your job and being positively valued.
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Feeling accepted versus tolerated | BPS

A recent study finds that embracing differences, rather than being ‘identity-blind’, leaves LGBT+ people feeling more truly accepted in the workplace.

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 17d

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Early community work roles and sources

Liverpool's local social issues, coordination and development, coloniality, emerging social work in the 20th century

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 24d

Should I have tried to write a specialised Substack?
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First-year report on a specialist Substack

Just completed this September

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Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social · 24d

New report shows that when you increase retirement age (many countries are doing it) older women already in poverty and not in employment because of bad health, lose out because they cannot or do not return to work.
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