How to Thrive in Professional Practice: A Self-care Handbook [Paperback]

This engaging book pulls together the individual strains of self-care, spirituality and common sense. It is a one-stop bible to give social workers and other professionals an uncomplicated, easy to read resource that empowers them to manage and maintain their well-being through personal responsibility and self-care.

The world today is fast paced and societal expectations for impeccable service are high. We cannot always alter the demands of our professional or personal lives, but by actively pursuing well-being we can enhance skills to support open discussion in supervision (or in personal reflection) so that individuals (and organisations) can successfully rise to meet challenges head on and reduce the risks associated with burnout.

Building on the authors years of personal experience, this book

• Brings together everything professionals need for their own self-care?through a range of practical activities
• Gives you tried and tested self-care ideas backed by the latest research
• Allows you as professionals to take a holistic approach to a range of subjects that people usually explore in isolation.?

Stephen J Mordue has 19 years experience in social work, initially as a practitioner and team manager working with older people and for the last seven years as a lecturer in social work specialising in adult care and the Mental Capacity Act and Beat Interests Assessment. He works at the University of Sunderland.

Lisa Watson has over 25 years' experience of working in health and social care settings, ranging from Occupational Therapy to Social Work. She graduated as a mature student, from Sunderland University with BA (Hons) Social Work in 2008.

Following job demands and burnout, she took a career brl#$