Students - Cultivating resilience, wellbeing & self-care in social work

The BASW Charitable Foundation for Social work is delighted to share details of the BASW Foundation Student Development Programme - The Art of Social Work. 

An exciting new initiative enabling social work students to access free webinar style training sessions, covering topics that augment the University syllabus.

Sessions are suitable for student delegates nationwide. Click here for details of the full programme.

Session Summary

Social workers deal with some of the most challenging human situations in life. For a lot of clients, their needs have become more complex over recent years at the same time as resources have become even more stretched. This webinar will emphasise the importance of ‘putting on our own oxygen mask first’ so we can stay well within our profession in the face of these changes. Drawing on up-to-date research and evidence-based strategies, this webinar will help attendees understand what ‘healthy resilience’ really means and will provide practical guidance about how to build personal resilience and reduce overall stress levels.

Learning Outcomes 

• Understand the meaning & importance of resilience, wellbeing & self-care for social workers
• Know & summarise how neuroplasticity & epigenetics can help us build resilience
• Identify practical physiological strategies to promote overall wellbeing
• Evaluate and prioritise skills & techniques that foster mental & emotional resilience and help release stress & tension in everyday life
• Produce personalised self-care plans incorporating new & updated strategies

Trainer Bio

Michelle McMaster is an Independent Social Worker and has worked across all sectors (statutory, not-for-profit and private) in health and social care for over 40 years. She has worked with all service user groups, of all ages, and was also a social work lecturer and tutor for many years.

Michelle’s passion is in mental health promotion and suicide prevention, with a particular emphasis on grief, loss and trauma recovery. She has post-graduate training in Social Research Methods, with accredited practitioner training in Complex Trauma, Clinical Trauma Interventions, Applied Neuroscience and Brain & Behaviour Change. Michelle runs her own private trauma recovery practice and is always keen to share the skills and practical knowledge she applies in her work with clients.

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