Social Workers and Compassion

ISBN-13: 9780367632311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 216 str.

Stewart Collins

Opis

Social Workers and Compassion is designed to assist social work students, social workers, social work managers, social care workers and lecturers in developing knowledge, understanding, skills and values related to various aspects of compassion.

Recenzje

Collins’s balanced and mature, reflective text is a Godsend to today’s student social worker and a clear reminder to long-serving practitioners, educators and academics of the reasons why we enter, educate for and promote social work.

British Journal of Social Work 2023 1-3.

Spis treści

0.Introduction.  1.The Present Context of Social Work in the UK.  2.Compassion.  3.Compassion Fatigue.  4.Compassion Satisfaction.  5.Self-Care to Promote Self-Compassion.  6.Self-Compassion.  7.Mindfulness.

O autorze

Stewart Collins was employed for ten years in probation in Leeds. He has been employed as a social work educator in Leeds, Bangor, and, until recently, in Glasgow. Stewart has worked as an External Examiner for many years with various social work courses and continues to do so. He has been, and is, on the editorial boards of various social work journals. Stewart has worked as a volunteer in a wide range of settings. In particular, he has worked for many years, and is currently working, as a volunteer with an agency that assists people experiencing alcohol problems.