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- Compassion has always been a core value in social work. Compassion influences a social worker to cultivate the skill of curiosity about others. Compassion together with empathy helps the social worker talk to others about their lives, interests, and views of the world around them.
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Feb 18, 2021 · How can I work on self compassion? Self compassion allows social workers to enhance their knowledge and clarity about their own limitations. Through this, you can improve your mental health as a social worker and have greater life satisfaction.
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On average and using five-point scale, social workers reported above a three for the three components of self-compassion (mindfulness, common human-ity, and self-kindness), as well as their respective counterparts (over-identification, isolation, and self-judgment).
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- Challenges Facing Clinical Social Workers
- Importance of Self-Compassion and Self-Care
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Terminology associated with self-care and wellness, particularly in a professional context, are frequently muddled or misunderstood (Cleantis 2017). Divergent terminology and ambiguous practices contribute to this lack of understanding. Thus, the following paragraphs will briefly define terms relevant to understanding this study.
The contemporaneous challenges facing social work clinicians are multifarious and well-documented. More broadly, over the past decade, social work practitioners have faced a host of organizational challenges such growing case-load sizes and increasingly complex client needs (Arrington 2008; Cox and Steiner 2013; Whitaker et al. 2006). Moreover, soc...
Few would debate the importance of self-compassion and self-care, respectively and perhaps in combination, for clinicians. In fact, evidence indicates that healthy self-compassion and self-care practices may assuage many of the problematic employment circumstances previously detailed in this narrative. Whilst not many studies have specifically exam...
The primary focus of this exploratory study was to examine self-compassion, self-care, and the interaction between the two, among a sample of social work clinicians. In so doing, this paper addresses a unique gap in the current research literature. This research effort was guided by three distinct research queries: 1. 1. How do social work clinicia...
- J. Jay Miller, Jacquelyn Lee, Chunling Niu, Erlene Grise-Owens, Molly Bode
- 2019
Oct 24, 2024 · A strong focus on self-care also helps social workers handle challenges with clarity and composure. Addressing personal well-being leads to improved empathy and patience when working with clients. This introduction explores why self-care is essential for social workers, highlighting its role in maintaining mental health and avoiding burnout.
Feb 14, 2019 · Adept and ethical social work practice requires that practitioners engage in self-compassionate practices. This study offers pragmatic implications for social work practice, including training and apposite areas for research.
- J Jay Miller, Jacquelyn Lee, Nada Shalash, Zuzana Poklembova
- 2020
Oct 31, 2019 · A focus on compassion can extend to self-compassion, with potential benefits for social workers’ mental well-being (Kotera et al., 2018). Another future direction for compassionate social work is to incorporate compassion into social work training, alongside empathy.
Jun 23, 2021 · Social workers might risk experiencing a client’s feelings of anger, depression, anxiety, or joy as their own feelings, which points to the need for emphasising the emotional aspects as a central part of critical reflection in research on sensitive topics and in practice.
