Select any one or several of the self-care strategies described in this chapter and describe how you might apply it to yourself in a social work job, student placement, volunteer experience, or any other type of current or recent employment.

What will be an ideal response?


The self-care categories (but not the individual strategies) are listed below. For this assignment the student needs to personalize these self-care strategies, and also demonstrate how implementing them will have positive outcomes for clients as well as the social worker.

• Appreciate the rewards of social work practice
• Do not deny or minimize the stresses inherent in social work practice
• Cultivate and maintain connections with other people
• Set clear boundaries with clients
• Create a facilitative physical work environment for yourself
• Cultivate a sense of mission

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A. autokinetic effect. B. theory of social comparison. C. rightness evaluation. D. conformity theory.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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When you report the findings of the ANOVA, you will report:

a. the mean scores of the groups and the value of p. b. the sample size and the value of p. c. the mean scores of the groups, the sample size, and the value of p. d. the mean scores of the groups, the value of the F statistic, and the value of p.

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