Event date: 1/27/2025 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Export event Kyle Northam / Monday, November 25, 2024 / Categories: Uncategorized Self-Care in Social Work: A Person-in-Environment Approach to Managing Occupational Stress and Burnout NASW WI Chapter Webinar 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: Learn to distinguish between secondary trauma, vicarious traumatic stress, and burnout. Understand the meaning of radical and decolonized self-care Understand the importance of appraisal-based coping in social work. Learn strategies for enhancing self-efficacy in social work. Gain knowledge of organizational policies and practices that further self-care. 1 Continuing education hour REGISTER COST Members - $25 Student/Retired Members - $20 Non-Members - $35 Previous Article Got Millennials? The Sustainable Workforce of the Future Next Article Chat Bots and AI Image Generators: Practical Tools for Today’s Social Work Practice Print 138 Tags: occupation stress More links Self-Care in Social WorkWebinar Registration Link