NASW-TX: Self-Care, I'll Squeeze You in Right After This Next Zoom Meeting

Course overview

Professional social workers experience high exposure to trauma in our clinical-community work. Our commitment to reducing or eliminating the causes of traumatic experiences, including community violence, as well as loss related to the current pandemic, make us especially vulnerable. Being empathic and compassionate has a significant emotional impact on the social worker and going from one virtual session to another can be challenging. We acknowledge the need to care for ourselves, but do we really take the time for self-care? What does self-care even look like for a professional social worker in this virtual world? During a pandemic, how do we engage in self-care to ensure that we practice effective mental health? This video workshop will extend, refresh, and revive self-care measures that embrace culture and are informed by personal narratives. We will also identify potential emotional hazards which may lead to worker distress. Self-care tools that have demonstrated evidence of healing will be practiced within the course of this presentation.