The AtoZ SelfCare Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals,Used

Selfcare is an imperative for the ethical practice of social work and other helping professions. From A (awareness) to Z (ZZZZSleep), the editors and contributors use a simple AtoZ framework to outline strategies to help you build a selfcare plan with specific goals and ways to reach them realistically. Questions for reflection and additional resource lists help you to dig deeper in your selfcare journey. Just as the ABCs are essential building blocks for a young childs learning, you can use the ABCs in The AtoZ SelfCare Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals to build your way to a happy, healthy, ethical life as a helping professional. Includes a selfcare planning form to help you set goals and formulate strategies.The AtoZ SelfCare Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals...offers a broad range of concrete suggestions for improving individual selfcare that should provide guidance and support to fit a broad range of practitioner needs. The book also includes material in several chapters that notes the important role organizations must take in stress and burnout reduction and support of selfcare.SUE STEINER, Ph.D., MSW, Professor, School of Social Work at California State University, Chico, Coauthor, SelfCare in Social Work: A Guide for Practitioners, Supervisors, and Administrators...a caring and useful resource for helping professionals concerned about burnout, stress, staff turnover, and wellness.... By focusing on insights and reflections and providing resources and strategies, The AtoZ SelfCare Handbook is a practical guide and an empowering book.DR. BARBARA W. SHANK, Ph.D., MSW, Dean and Professor, School of Social Work, University of St. Thomas, St. Catherine University, Chair, Board of Directors, Council on Social Work EducationAs the leader of a large nonprofit organization, the health and wellbeing of my colleagues is always top of mind for me. The AtoZ SelfCare Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals is just what an organization like ours needed to promote selfcare in a way that makes sense for all of us!JENNIFER HANCOCK, LCSW, President & CEO, Volunteers of AmericaMidStatesSometimes there is a book that speaks to what you also have tried to put into words that feels truly handinglove. I see The AtoZ SelfCare Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals as precisely this book.SARAKAY SMULLENS, MSW, LCSW, author of Burnout and SelfCare in Social Work: A Guidebook for Students and Those in Mental Health and Related ProfessionsGriseOwens, Miller, & Eaves The AtoZ SelfCare Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals is a muchneeded handbook to inspire and guide selfcare practice. Its insights are farranging, original, practical, and flexible. The short chapter format, focused topics, and fresh tone are both accessible and sure to motivate. Even those who have given a great deal of thought and attention to selfcare will find new, exciting, and practicable guidance in its pages.LISA D. BUTLER, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University at Buffalo, School of Social Work, Primary Developer, UBSSW SelfCare Starter Kit