| Title: | Strategies for mind and body health in social work education and practice |
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| Author: | Starak, Y |
| Mediagroup: | journal article |
| Publisher: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Mental Health in Australia |
| Jahr: | 1984 |
| Band: | 1 |
| Heft: | 13 |
| Seiten: | 19 - 22 |
| Language: | English; englisch |
| Abstract: | Describes strategies taught at an Australian university for managing stress in social work education and practice. Social workers often work in stressful situations and are called upon to resolve, ameliorate, or prevent stressful conditions under which their clients live. Social work educators sometimes create undue stresses for their students either purposefully or inadvertently. There is evidence that undue accumulated stress is conducive to major physical and mental disorders. The social work education program for teaching stress management includes yoga, meditation, autogenic training, and awareness through movement and gentle physical exercise routines. A scale of the impact of 42 life changes and a 15-item self-assessment burnout questionnaire are included. (5 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2002 APA, all rights reserved); (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) |