Social workers encounter a number of unique forms of occupational stress on a daily basis. The more thoroughly they understand the stressors they face, the better-prepared social workers will be able to manage them successfully. Self-Care in Social Work is a guide to promote effective self-care tailored to the needs of social workers, including both individual and organizational approaches. On a personal level, it goes beyond the typical prescriptions to exercise, eat well, sleep more, and get a massage or meditate. In fact, the book is based on the premise that self-care should not be an add-on activity only happening in the rare instance there is some free time. Instead, it is conceptualized as a state of mind and considered an integral part of a social worker's training. In Self-Care in Social Work, the reader is taught how to approach individually oriented self-care through the development of self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-efficacy. At the organizational level, readers are guided through a process of learning about areas of match and mismatch between themselves and their agency structure and culture. The book is timely in that the economic downturn has put pressure on agencies to do more with less, which ultimately leads to stress. Burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma are topics that students, instructors, practitioners, and administrators are concerned about. A practical guide to stress management and approaches to self-care, this book includes narratives gathered from both students and practitioners in the field. It is an excellent resource for social workers, counselors, and mental health professionals in education.

Self-Care in Social Work: A Guide for Practitioners, Supervisors, and Administrators

Kathleen Cox

Sue Steiner

NASW Press

Self-Care in Social Work: A Person-in-Environment Approach to Managing Occupational Stress and Burnout

Politics & Social Sciences

Kathleen “Kathy” Cox

Social Sciences

Empowerment Series: An Introduction to the Profession of Social Work

Elizabeth A. Segal

Karen E. Gerdes

Cengage Learning'

Created as a gift item for Mother's Day or moms' birthdays, this book is filled with short, informative articles, advice, inspirational quotes, humor, proverbs, and profiles of famous moms. It includes what motherhood was like in ancient Greece and Rome, Victorian England, the Middle Ages, and even prehistoric cave-dwelling days; tributes to mothers, such as poems, literature, Whistler's Mother, and the Statue of Liberty; differences in motherhood across various cultures, including Eskimo, Jewish, African, Irish, Latin; great motherly advice in notable quotes and what famous and ordinary people learned from their moms; and motherly advice that turned out to be wrong. It's all here — political moms, singing moms, animal moms, single moms, Elvis's mom, and the Mom Halls of Fame and Shame — written in a breezy, information-packed style perfect for browsing over a nice cup of tea.

Uncle John's Presents Mom's Bathtub Reader

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Portable Press

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