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The Responsibility of Self-Care in Social Work

Recently my colleague and former editor-in-chief of Social Work, Tricia B. Bent-Goodley (2018), wrote an editorial on the importance of intentional self-care in social work practice. Since that time, self-care has become even more essential for us. We have all been battered by a pandemic, by images and experiences of police violence against Black individuals and communities, by news of the murder of Asian women in Atlanta, by job loss and economic hardship. These experiences are different for each of us, because of our varied positionalities and privilege, and we must acknowledge the profound experiences of racial trauma among social workers who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color (Lipscomb & Ashley, 2020). But since the beginning of 2020, to various extents all of us have been pummeled by pain and fear and loss and rage.

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Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 08/20/2021 | Link to this post on IFP |
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