Saturday, November 22, 2014

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. 

1 comment:

  1. Sounds good. Honestly, I would probably choose intervening with students in the College of Social Work OR therapists in the field (but not both). This will help with the feasibility of your project. From my perspective, I'd recommend focusing on students in the College. That way, you can easily survey they about their needs around self-care and develop an intervention. However, you will want to think about how to make this project of self-care sustainable and continue after you've graduated. It sounds like you have compiled a plethora of information on social worker burnout and its consequences. I look forward to reading your paper!

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