The Value of Self Care for Workers in the Helping Profession: An Ethical Imperative
$15.00
Presented by Maxine Bradshaw, Ph.D. and Chezvaugh Turner, MSW, MA
Recorded on Thursday, October 24, 2024
Access provided upon registration on “My Courses” page
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the urgency to connect with loved ones and the need to practice personal and collective measures to preserve life. Indeed, within this post covid era, life seems to return to normal with individuals fixated on “catching up” financially with what was lost during the down turn of financial opportunities necessitated by shut down of the global community. Many organizations see the need to revisit the wholistic health of their workers in order to alleviate burnout and high levels of turnover. However, multitasking and role assignments make it difficult for individuals and organizations to indulge, require or mandate self-care. Institutions that posit helping others lack the mandate require or see the urgency of practicing what they purport for others. According to Canes-Lerma et.al. (2022), self-care enhances motivation to help others, increases positive emotions such as compassion satisfaction, and reverses compassion fatigue. Others have proposed a theoretical model for self-management ((Sun et. al, (2020), Coleman et. al. 2021).
To protect those in the profession, the American Psychological Association (APA) (2017) , emphasizes the need for psychologists to monitor their emotional and physical states, and in 2021, the National Association of Social Workers( NASW) added a self-care section to its Code of Ethics. The question to consider is whether it is ethical to continue providing services to others when you are not operating at an optimal capacity? Those working in the helping profession have an imperative to practice and model self-care as part of mainlining positive wellbeing. However, the precise meaning of self-care is unprecise because of cultural variations and definitions across disciplines (Martinez et. al. 2021). This presentation will define self-care as viewed across various disciplines, discuss the ethics involved in self-care, provide strategies to practice self-care, and examine the efficacy of creating a personal self-care contract.
This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 1.0 APA CEs for Psychologists, 1.0 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, or 1.0 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSW, and LMFTs.
Description
Presented by Maxine Bradshaw, Ph.D. and Chezvaugh Turner, MSW, MA
Recorded on Thursday, October 24, 2024
Access provided upon registration on “My Courses” page
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the urgency to connect with loved ones and the need to practice personal and collective measures to preserve life. Indeed, within this post covid era, life seems to return to normal with individuals fixated on “catching up” financially with what was lost during the down turn of financial opportunities necessitated by shut down of the global community. Many organizations see the need to revisit the wholistic health of their workers in order to alleviate burnout and high levels of turnover. However, multitasking and role assignments make it difficult for individuals and organizations to indulge, require or mandate self-care. Institutions that posit helping others lack the mandate require or see the urgency of practicing what they purport for others. According to Canes-Lerma et.al. (2022), self-care enhances motivation to help others, increases positive emotions such as compassion satisfaction, and reverses compassion fatigue. Others have proposed a theoretical model for self-management ((Sun et. al, (2020), Coleman et. al. 2021).
To protect those in the profession, the American Psychological Association (APA) (2017) , emphasizes the need for psychologists to monitor their emotional and physical states, and in 2021, the National Association of Social Workers( NASW) added a self-care section to its Code of Ethics. The question to consider is whether it is ethical to continue providing services to others when you are not operating at an optimal capacity? Those working in the helping profession have an imperative to practice and model self-care as part of mainlining positive wellbeing. However, the precise meaning of self-care is unprecise because of cultural variations and definitions across disciplines (Martinez et. al. 2021). This presentation will define self-care as viewed across various disciplines, discuss the ethics involved in self-care, provide strategies to practice self-care, and examine the efficacy of creating a personal self-care contract.
This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 1.0 APA CEs for Psychologists, 1.0 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, or 1.0 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSW, and LMFTs.
