Episode summary
While I love a steaming hot bath and a chill session on my couch, self-care in social work is so much more than what you do as an individual outside of work. Today I am chatting with an amazing and experienced social worker, Mikaela Higgins, who works in the child welfare sector. Mikaela gives us important insights into workplace self-care and how necessary it is for organisations to embed self-care into workplace structures and roles.
Learn more
Click here for a video on Zone of Fabulousness, recommended by Mikaela.
Click here for a Brené Brown video on empathy, recommended by Mikaela
Click here for details of a study on predictors of secondary trauma.
Click here for details of a model for self-care based on ecological systems theory.
Click here to read about why social workers in Wales are more likely to be happy.
Click here to read more about a self-care movement for social workers
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