Reflective Practice in Social Work: Some Ideas

 

 

School of Social Work University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA Reflective Practice in Social Work: Some Ideas  Jane F. Gilgun Main Points

         

Reflective practice is awareness or mindfulness in contexts of various sorts. Reflective practice is central to effective practice.  Values lead us to be social workers. Most forms of social work direct practice is an invitation to secondary trauma. Dysregulation characterizes secondary trauma: emotional distress and intrusive thoughts and images.   Many strategies for coping with dysregulation.   Benefits of coping positively with dysregulation.   Self-knowledge   Empathic understanding of others and their situations.   Opens researchers up experientially to the big wide world and multiple perspectives    As social workers, we connect to others but we must maintain an analytic stance. References

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