NSCSW Lunch & Learn: Understanding social work burnout & how to prevent it

Nova Scotia College of Social Workers

Learn how social workers can go from feeling burned out to feeling confident in their practice so you can maintain your overall wellbeing.

Vicarious trauma & secondary stress

Members of the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers are required to complete annual professional development, which must include training or activities related to preventing and managing vicarious trauma and secondary stress.

Social workers face challenging situations in their practice and are at a higher risk of experiencing vicarious trauma, secondary stress, moral injury, and burnout. This webinar is an opportunity for social workers to learn more about strategies to support burnout prevention. Attendees will be introduced to burnout prevention skills including setting &amp; maintaining healthy boundaries, nervous system regulation, collective care, deep self-and care.Many of the complaints made to the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers (NSCSW) can be traced back to a social worker’s burnout that led them to a boundary violation, lack of empathy, or other form of professional misconduct.As part of the College’s mandate to protect the public and support social workers, this webinar supports social workers in preventing or managing vicarious trauma and secondary stress arising from their work. This session is an adapted offering from Amy Pinnell’s Sensitive Social Work course on Boundaries for Burnout Prevention. For more information for the full course, <a href="https://www.sensitivesocialworker.com/courses/boundaries-for-burnout-prevention." title="https://www.sensitivesocialworker.com/courses/boundaries-for-burnout-prevention." target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">visit her website here.</a> <h3>Objectives</h3><h3> </h3><ul><li>Knowledge: Identify and understand strategies and approaches to prevention of burnout, establishment of boundaries, and self-reflective processes to support wellbeing and professional practice.</li><li>Skills: Develop and integrate practices for coping with burnout, establishing boundaries, and better communicate as a social worker.</li><li>Values: Reflect on social workers’ personal relationship(s) to burnout and how this may impact practice.</li></ul> <h3>Speaker</h3><h4> </h4>Amy Pinnell is a Registered Social Worker, Clinical Therapist, and the founder of Sensitive Social Worker. She is on a mission to help tender-hearted, deep-feeling helpers and healers engage in meaningful, social-justice oriented work, without burning out. (Through her online courses and live workshops Amy has helped 100s of Social Workers release martyrdom mentality and embrace their sensitivity so that they could continue showing up whole-heartedly for their clients and for themselves. Amy is the creator of the Love Notes for Social Workers Card Deck, a pocket-sized support for busy Social Workers which has been purchased by Social Workers worldwide). Amy has a Masters of Social Work from the University of Victoria and has 10+ years of experience working as a Social Worker in the areas of mental health and substance use. You can find Amy on Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/sensitivesocialworker/" title="https://www.instagram.com/sensitivesocialworker/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@sensitivesocialworker</a>) or through her website (<a href="https://www.sensitivesocialworker.com/" title="https://www.sensitivesocialworker.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.sensitivesocialworker.com</a>). <h3>Eligibility</h3> NSCSW MembersAll active, associate, retired associate, and student members of the <a href="https://nscsw.org/" title="https://nscsw.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nova Scotia College of Social Workers</a> are welcome to attend; our professional development programming is part of our member services funded by <a href="https://issuu.com/nscsw/docs/connection_spring2023_webfinal/42" title="https://issuu.com/nscsw/docs/connection_spring2023_webfinal/42" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">annual registration fees</a>. Community PartnersAll allied health practitioners in Nova Scotia/Mi'kma'ki interested in learning more about navigating and preventing burnout are eligible to sign up for a $5 partner ticket; just let us know which profession you are a part of when you register. <h3>Related Code of Ethics &amp; Standards of Practice</h3><h4><a href="https://www.casw-acts.ca/en/casw-code-ethics-2024" title="https://www.casw-acts.ca/en/casw-code-ethics-2024" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CASW</a>:</h4>Value 4: Valuing Human RelationshipsGuiding Principle 4.2 Social workers continually develop self-awareness and practise self-reflection to guide their practice and personal well-being. Value 7: Providing Competent Professional ServicesGuiding Principle 7.1 Social workers continuously develop their professional knowledge and skill at the level required to provide competent professional services. <h4><a href="https://nscsw.org/" title="https://nscsw.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">NSCSW</a>:</h4>Value 4: Valuing Human RelationshipsGuiding Principle 4.2 Social workers continually develop self-awareness and practise self-reflection to guide their practice and personal well-being. Value 7: Providing Culturally Responsive Competent Professional ServicesGuiding Principle 7.1 Social workers are committed to the ongoing development of their professional abilities and knowledge, aiming to ensure the delivery of culturally responsive professional services. <h3>Professional development tracking</h3>For members of NSCSW, participating in this event is eligible towards the annual requirement for professional development related to preventing/managing vicarious trauma &amp; secondary stress. Members who have already fulfilled this mandated requirement can track this activity under formal professional development instead.Visit <a href="http://nscsw.org/pd" title="http://nscsw.org/pd" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">nscsw.org/pd</a> for more information about the updated professional development requirements for Nova Scotia social workers. <h3>Questions?</h3>If you have questions about our professional development program content, please contact the College's Professional Development Consultant, Tyler Colbourne, at tyler.colbourne@nscsw.org.

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