Nada India Foundation News update

Revitalizing social defence as a sector within social work is essential for defending the profession and addressing its inherent stresses. This article explores how integrating innovative approaches such as Emotional CPR and ear acupressure, alongside advocating for comprehensive rehabilitation programs like SMILE, can empower social work educators and practitioners. By upholding the core values and principles of social work, these strategies ensure the profession remains robust, empathetic, and adaptive, capable of effectively meeting contemporary social challenges. The relevance and identity of social defence within the realm of social work have gradually diminished, relegating it to a mere chapter in social work education or morphing it into other forms. This shift has prompted a need to reconnect, empower, and revitalize the profession. It is essential to reinvigorate the discussion around social defence as a distinct sector, capable of defending the profession of social work and a...

Guidepoints News from NADA  Jan/Feb 2015   Vatsyayan writes, “Utilizing theories of human behavior and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work. Acupuncture and all  Qi-flow therapies ‘help the body help itself.’ And this is also the goal  of social work.” Book Review : Social Work Education and Practice Engagement , edited by Sanjai Bhatt and Suresh Pathare Social worker and Nada India Foundation (NIF) chairperson, Suneel Vatsyayan , is a contributing author to a new volume on social work in India which has just been published by Shipra Publications. Vatsyayan’s chapter in this anthology considers the connection between social work and the NADA ear acupuncture treatment. Specifically, he describes how the NADA protocol s as an ideal social work intervention for drug and alcohol addiction. Vatsyayan trained first at ...