Shorts Media - home of Social Work Shorts and Self Care Shorts

  • HOME
  • Social Work Shorts
    • YouTube Gallery – Social Work Shorts
    • Practice
    • Theory
    • Communication
    • Student Zone
    • Voices
    • Commentary
    • Being Organised
    • In the News
    • Post Session Material
  • Self Care Shorts
    • YouTube Gallery – Self Care Shorts
    • Well-being
    • Being Organised
    • Productivity
    • Exercise
    • Nutrition
    • Sleep
    • Self Care
    • Thrive Videos
  • Subscribe
  • Post Session Training Materials
    • Right Gear, Right Time, Right Place
    • Building Resilience in Student Social Workers and ASYE’s (for NESWA)
    • Introduction to assessment and care planning
    • Mental Capacity Act Awareness Training
  • Focus on…..
    • Key points from Focus on…. Emails
    • Key points from Focus on… What makes a good leader
    • Key Points from Focus on… Habits and Building Better Routines
    • Key points from Focus on… working from home
    • Focus on… working from home
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT

Author: George Bull

Strengths based practice – Verbs and Powerlifting meet social work.

  • George Bull
  • May 10, 2023
  • Commentary
Verbs As a solution focused social worker, I am interested in supporting sustainable positive change. However precisely what activity (in the broadest sense) do we offer as professionals to achieve this.  To...
Read More

Forming our views; Rishi, social workers, and primates.

  • George Bull
  • February 9, 2023
  • Commentary
In the caring professions our experiences are the cornerstone of our practice, setting our moral compass and future decision-making processes (heuristics). Despite each individual experience being important our brains are designed to...
Read More

Social Work Change, Priti Patel and Gauss Linear and non-linear Problems

  • George Bull
  • February 9, 2023
  • Commentary
Written by George Bull…. Thousands of words, column inches and twitter feeds have been spilled out by our profession paining over what is going wrong; poverty, a ‘crowbarred in’ care review and...
Read More

Churning the Soil, caring professions (health, teaching and social care) and Madonna.

  • George Bull
  • February 9, 2023
  • Commentary
agraph Last month I enjoyed the lecture of Durham University’s new social work lead Professor Carlene Firmin, on contextual safeguarding. I was particularly energized by the language of “spaces” and shifting the risk...
Read More

Language and Power in Social Work, a fresh perspective from the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • George Bull
  • February 9, 2023
  • Commentary
Social work can be seen as an endeavour of attempting to grasp at another person’s reality. We assess people and families striving to be as faithful as possible.  In this article I...
Read More

Podcast Show Notes: Stephen talks to George Bull about risk in light of the murder of Arthur

  • George Bull
  • February 9, 2023
  • Commentary
Social Work Shorts (Episode 25): Insights #8 In the latest episode of the Social Work Podcast Insights series Stephen and George talk about risk in light of the murder of Arthur and...
Read More

Academic referencing: Durham’s Moon, Nuclear Weapons, Avengers and middle aged man returns to University.

  • George Bull
  • February 9, 2023
  • Student Zone
After a 13 year break I have returned to University to complete an Education Masters at Sunderland.   This week I have been writing my first essay and returned to the business of...
Read More

Efficiency, Slack and Social Work – Featuring Pareto, Cost Co and Privatisation.

  • George Bull
  • February 9, 2023
  • Commentary
There is a war raging in UK social work presently.  To name a few of the various battle fronts – the COVID recovery, rising inequality, the lurking shadow of increased privatization and...
Read More

Social Work and Poverty Echoes through Time, Stewart, Sterling and Situated Choice

  • George Bull
  • February 9, 2023
  • Commentary
1895 London, Mary Stewart walks into work in her new role as hospital almoner (churchy term for some one that gives out charity/alms to poor). With this the profession of social work was...
Read More

Invisible: Two Presidents, Catwoman and Social Work Reviews

  • George Bull
  • February 9, 2023
  • Commentary
Last month the government announced a wide scoping investigation into childrens’ social work and the care system with Frontline boss Josh MacAlister appointed as the head honcho. Josh is a rising star...
Read More

Posts pagination

1 2 Next

Recent Posts

Myron’s Maxims – this weeks discovery
October 4, 2024
Professional Identity – defining the box.
October 1, 2024
Biology’s Challenge to Social Work – Embodying the Person-in-Environment Perspective
September 25, 2024
Common student questions answered
July 10, 2024
Working from home: Are you a segmentor or an integrator? It could make a difference.
May 2, 2024

About

Shorts Media is the home of Stephen J. Mordue, Self Care Shorts, Social Work Shorts and ResetMySoul

Calendar

May 2025
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Oct    

Shorts Media

Our mission is to bring you content that stimulates your thinking in an easy to digest format. That’s not to say the content isn’t complex it’s just that we think that you can express complex things in fairly straightforward language – wasn’t it Einstein who said if you can’t explain it to a six year old then you don’t understand it yourself?

Gallery

Get in Touch

Email: sjmordue@googlemail.com

Copyright © All Rights Reserved.
  • HOME
  • Social Work Shorts
    • YouTube Gallery – Social Work Shorts
    • Practice
    • Theory
    • Communication
    • Student Zone
    • Voices
    • Commentary
    • Being Organised
    • In the News
    • Post Session Material
  • Self Care Shorts
    • YouTube Gallery – Self Care Shorts
    • Well-being
    • Being Organised
    • Productivity
    • Exercise
    • Nutrition
    • Sleep
    • Self Care
    • Thrive Videos
  • Subscribe
  • Post Session Training Materials
    • Right Gear, Right Time, Right Place
    • Building Resilience in Student Social Workers and ASYE’s (for NESWA)
    • Introduction to assessment and care planning
    • Mental Capacity Act Awareness Training
  • Focus on…..
    • Key points from Focus on…. Emails
    • Key points from Focus on… What makes a good leader
    • Key Points from Focus on… Habits and Building Better Routines
    • Key points from Focus on… working from home
    • Focus on… working from home
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT