Self–care practices among social workers: do they predict job satisfaction and turnover intention?The current health and mental health care delivery system in the United States strives to provide efficient quality care at a lower cost. This cost-effective approach and recent budget cuts have ...
To combat deteriorating mental health, the National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics has called for a renewed focus on self-care practice. Yet, self-care education often fails to consider how to integrate practices into the workplace, especially with constrained resources and ...
Self-care is widely recognized as critical to social work practice, yet little empirical support or practical guidance exists in the literature to steer social workers in its implementation. Self-care may not only be crucial in preventing secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and high staff turnover...
Researchers found that since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in early March, self-care practices among social workers have significantly decreased. In fact, over 90% of practitioners reported COVID-19 has negatively affected their ability to engage in adequate self-care. "Given the importance of...
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stress, trauma, and self-care practices among our students and sought to identify or develop resources they could use for self-care.” The Web pages that make up the tool kit grew out of that effort, according to Butler, and they have applications both for students and social work ...
practices people can and do choose to engage in, for themselves or for those in their care, is heavily context dependent. Factors such as health literacy, access to information, the social environment and individual or family agency all play a role. For instance, improving health literacy in ...
Despite the increasingly wider availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART), some people living with HIV (PLHIV) and eligible for treatment have opted to adopt self-care practices thereby risking early AIDS-related mortality. A qualitative study was cond
There is still room for improvement in self-competence in death work among health and social care workers, particularly the young, nurses and those working in acute hospitals. Future initiatives should involve identifying barriers in individual healthcare institutions. Training of the provision of ...
It’s still important to point out that while engaging in self-care practices should be encouraged and can be a great way to decompress from a stressful day or week, these practices are not a proper substitute for seeking professional help and support for mental health conditions. If you beli...