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May 05, 2024
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SWK 642 - The Resilient Social Worker 3 hours
The Resilient Social Worker: Practices for lifelong balance and professional satisfaction The demands placed on social worker workers in supporting people through challenging circumstances can contribute to high levels of stress, fatigue, and burnout. Self-care practices implemented regularly may decrease those levels while also serving as strategies for coping during particularly stressful times. This class will serve to deepen student’s understanding of self and how that self interacts with the workplace. Students will explore the effects of social work practice on their lives (compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue, including burnout and vicarious trauma), discern their strengths and areas for growth around self-compassion and self-care, practice skills to enhance their well-being (mindfulness skills, setting boundaries, accessing intuition, expressive arts), and create a flexible, individualized self-care plan to be used during the semester and beyond. Students will develop the tools to maintain balance and connection in their lives as a professional social worker.
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