Self-Care for Social Workers

Week # 1: June 19

Required Readings:
Haddy, Richard, Clover, Richard. The biological processes in psychological stress. Families, Systems & Health, Fall, Vol. 29, Issue 3, p. 291-302.

Recommended readings:
Anonymous. (2002). Checking your burnout barometer, Nursing, Jun, Vol. 32, Issue 6, p. 98-100.

Greenberg, Neil, Carr, James, Summers, Cliff. (2002). Causes and consequences of stress. Integrative and Comparative Biology, Jun, Vol. 42, Issue 3, p. 508-516.

Week # 2: June 26

Akande, A., de W van Wyk, C., Osagie, J. E. (2000). Importance of exercise and nutrition in the prevention of illness and the enhancement of health. Education, Summer, Vol. 120, Issue 4, p. 758-772.

Recommended Readings:
Latona, Valerie. (2000). Peaceful, easy feeling. Vegetarian Times, Jan, Issue 269, p. 20-23.

Efthim, Paul, Kenny, Maureen, Mahalik, James. (2001). Gender role stress in relation to shame, guilt, and externalization. Journal of Counseling and Development, Vol. 79, Issue 4, p. 430-438.

Week # 3: July 10*Essay on Severe Stress is due
Hardiness

Required Readings:
Kamya, Hugo. (2000). Hardiness and spiritual well being among social work students: Implications for social work education. Journal of Social Work Education, Spring/Summer, Vol. 36, Issue 2, p. 231-232.

Poon, Ming-Tong, Lau, Sing. (1999). Coping with failure: Relationship with self-concept discrepancy and attributional style. The Journal of Social Psychology, Oct., Vol. 139, Issue 5, p. 639-653.

Recommended Readings:
Epstein, Robert. Stress busters. Psychology Today, Mar/Apr, Vol. 33, Issue 2, p. 30-36.

Day, Nancy. Give yourself a break. People Weekly, May, Vol. 55, Issue 20, p. 85-86.

Kloosterhouse, Vicki, Ames, Barbara. (2002). Families’ use of religion/spirituality as a psychosocial resource. Holistic Nursing Practice, Oct., Vol. 17, Issue 1, p. 61-76.

Week # 4: July 17Two students present abstracts

Required Readings:
Epstein, Ronald. (2001). Just being. Western Journal of Medicine, Jan, Vol. 173, Issue 1, p. 63-65.

Recommended Readings
Anonymous. (2002). Practicing meditation. Nursing, Apr, Vol. 32, Issue 4, p. 70-71.

Van Ness, Peter. (1999). Yoga as spiritual but not religious: A pragmatic perspective. American Journal of Theology & Philosophy. Jan, Vol. 20, Issue 1, p. 15-30.

Week # 5: July 24 Two students present abstracts

Required Readings:
Ledous, Joseph, Gorman, Jack. (2001). A call to action: Overcoming anxiety through active coping. American Journal of Psychiatry, Dec, Vol. 158, Issue 12, p. 1953-1955.

Valente, Sharon, Saudners, Judith. (2002). Nurses’ grief reactions to a patient’s suicide. Perpectives in Psychiatric Care, Jan-Mar, Vol. 38, Issue 1, p. 5-14.

Recommended Readings:
Anonymous. (2002). Why can’t I admit that I am unwell? British Medical Journal, Aug, Vol. 325, Issue 7361, p. 449-450.