Building better social care in Wales
I am passionate about strengths-based approaches to social work practice, so much so that I have dedicated my doctoral research project to studying this field. I hope that my work will help to shape the development of systems and structures that support real strengths-based working across adult services. But what do I mean when I… Read More
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Please join us for the second online meeting of the academic year to hear about two projects with children and young people; and to contribute your ideas for the 2021-2022 programme. We will look forward to seeing you and hearing your thoughts… Read More
Motivational Interviewing is a refined guidance communication style originating in the counselling field. It aims to guide clients in the process of changing many types of unhealthy behaviours including drugs and alcohol use, health behaviours like smoking, eating, sexual behaviour, adherence to medication and offending behaviour… Read More
This ‘young person’s guide to the new Curriculum for Wales’ will tell you about how the new Curriculum for Wales works and how it will help you learn… Read More
I am an Italian PhD student at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science of the University of Trento, visiting Cardiff University and CASCADE for a few months. In this blog I will tell you something about my PhD related to care experienced parenting and I would like to start by telling you something about… Read More
A collection of poetry about care-experience is featured in the new book Marks of an Unwanted Rainbow… Read More
Selfies, Snapchat and Keeping Safe is a Health Care Research Wales (HCRW) funded project, the first of its kind in Wales… Read More
The human ability to tell stories is perhaps our most important characteristic. As Mary Catherine Bateson said: “The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.” Stories allow us to share understandings, emotions and motivations. They allow us to cooperate on a scale no other animal can – through shared stories about nations or… Read More
This open course aims to give new and recently appointed fostering and adoption panel members an opportunity to develop their role as effective panel members and to consider the tasks and responsibilities involved… Read More
