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.

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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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