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- Self-care is essential to ethical practice. Social work education has a crucial role in educating social workers on the critical nature of self-care. The goal of self-care is to not only decrease anxiety but also create meaning and self-exploration.
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With this revision to the Code of Ethics, self-care has formally entered the conversation as an ethical necessity in social work practice. Given the exposure to multiple forms of trauma they face daily, social workers experience high rates of burnout and stress.
The goal of self-care is to not only decrease anxiety but also create meaning and self-exploration. This chapter begins by exploring the relationship between ethics and self-care. It examines the theoretical rationale for self-care, utilizing the Wounded.
- Dorothy S. Greene, Karen T. Cummings-Lilly
- 2019
In the contemporary context of social work practice, self-care is not optional; it is imperative. Yet—despite the promise of self-care in allaying problematic employment circumstances—mistakes, misnomers, and misconceptions about self-care persist.
May 3, 2018 · Self-care may not only be crucial in preventing secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and high staff turnover, but it can serve as a means of empowerment that enables practitioners to proactively and intentionally negotiate their overall health, well-being, and resilience.
- Jacquelyn J. Lee, Shari E. Miller
- 2013
Apr 23, 2020 · “Self-care is a spectrum of knowledge, skills, and attitudes including self-reflection and self-awareness, identification and prevention of burnout, appropriate professional boundaries, and grief and bereavement” (Sanchez-Reilly et al., 2013).
Dec 15, 2019 · This special issue seeks to deepen the social work profession’s conceptualization of self-care and promote effective implementation of self-care in professional practice. The coeditors and contributors advocate for self-care as an essential element of ethical professional practice.
Oct 26, 2018 · Self-Care in the Code: A Rationale. The responsibility to ourselves—our wellness —is as important as our responsibilities to our clients, colleagues, practice settings, broader society, and so on. Jackson (2014) and Lopez (2009) argued that self-care is fundamental to social work practice.
