Blog for 11/21

Present was Danielle, Kady, Stephanie, Daniel, Gina, Mariah, Kappy, and Lindsey. The group wanted to clarify with Lindsey the information to be posted on the blog and our ideas of where we want to go with our project. The group continued to conceptualize the project and what specifically we wanted to address with the project, for example; do we want to provide various methods for self-care for SW students and/or therapists, or awareness of burn out, or both. Group members have been conducting informal interviews to determine the need for self-care awareness. The next step after the completion of the paper is to decide if we want to create a survey for SW students and therapists, or to use the one from the University of Buffalo. We will also talk with Brad Lundall about possible resources, or even a workshop. The group confirmed who had the parts of the paper that needed to be accomplished and the deadline to which the paper had to be to Gina for editing and formatting. It was decided that by Dec. 1st everyone should have their portion of their paper to Gina. By our next meeting Kappy will have contacted Brad Lundall to see when we can talk with him about our ideas for the project; we will also bring together our resources and discuss them as a group. 

Blog Post 4: 11/7/14

On 10/31/14 we had a group meeting after class.  Present during our meeting were Daniel, Danielle, Kappy and Mariah and absent were Gina, Stephanie, and Katie. During our meeting we decided who was going to write the different parts of our group paper.  Kappy and Mariah are writing part one and two, Daniel is writing part three, Stephanie is writing part four and Danielle and Katie are collaborating on part five. Gina will be responsible for proof reading and editing our group paper.  Our group is still in the process of researching our topic and have stumbled upon some interesting research related to our topic done by the University of Buffalo. As a group we will decide if we want to implement some of the components from the study done by the University of Buffalo into our project.  Over this last week we have been talking with other students in different classes regarding their perception of self care and how they feel out program here at the U addresses it. We have gathered similar views from almost everyone we have talked to. We also would like to pass around a self care assessment tool that the University of Buffalo produced to see the different results other students in our cohort get.