Self Care
Self-Care A-Z Blog
It's Time for a Super-Self-Care-Summer: Here’s Your Weekly Guide
It’s that time again! Time for a Super-Self-Care-Summer! Join in with our 12-week weekly guide!
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Self-Care A-Z: Wise Up—Self-Care Wisdom From Seasoned Social Workers
Late-career social workers often wish they’d “wised up” sooner about taking care of themselves. From our interchanges, I’ve distilled six practice-wisdom pointers. What might you add?
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Self-Care A-Z: Self-Care and Political/Social Activism
Regardless of context and role, social workers are ethically compelled to engage in activism. In this era, we must attend to self-care and activism as complementary in crucial and intentional ways.
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Self-Care A-Z: March Is Social Work Month—Connecting Compassion and Action Through Self-Care
Self-care is not ancillary to action; it’s essential. Thus, we propose an essential corollary equation: Self-Compassion X Self-Care = Action that is Sustainable, Ethical, Effective, & Exponential.
The Book
Book Trailer: The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals
Watch the book trailer for The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals.
Introducing...The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals
Using an A-to-Z framework, the editors and contributors to this self-care handbook outline strategies for social workers/helping professionals to build a self-care plan with specific goals and ways to reach them realistically.
