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

January 27, 2025 - 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM CST

Presented by Kathy Cox, PhD, LCSW

This webinar presents an approach to self-care that goes beyond cliched self-help advice. It assumes both a micro and macro approach to preventing stress-related conditions, including vicarious trauma and burnout. The presentation will provide an overview of the impact of chronic stress, the origins of the concept of self-care, and culturally-relevant approaches to furthering wellness, including radical and decolonized self-care. On a micro level, it offers in-depth coverage of personal strategies for managing stress that incorporate a cognitive-coping framework as it relates to self-assessment, self-regulation, and self-efficacy. On a macro-level, it discusses organizational strategies for furthering workplace wellness, including the management of mismatch between personal and organizational culture, supervision that supports self-care, and agency policies and practices that contribute to the psychological safety and well-being of diverse employees. It concludes with a note of hope for social workers and agencies embracing the ethical imperative to further self-care in social work.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn to distinguish between secondary trauma, vicarious traumatic stress, and burnout.
2. Understand the meaning of radical and decolonized self-care
3. Understand the importance of appraisal-based coping in social work.
4. Learn strategies for enhancing self-efficacy in social work.
5. Gain knowledge of organizational policies and practices that further self-care.

1 Continuing education hour

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COST

Members - $25
Student/Retired Members - $20
Non-Members - $35