A Yorkshire training company has launched a new stress management workshop for people in social work and other stressful jobs. Positive Days has developed the wellbeing workshop in line with guidelines on the mental wellbeing of employees from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
With a Community Care survey last year showing nearly three-quarters of social workers feeling they faced burnout due to making difficult decisions under stress, and more recent reports that many social workers are taking anti-depressants, it seems initiatives like these are badly needed.
- Allan Sutherland, a disabled poet, has taken up a post as artist-in-residence at the Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University.
Sutherland, who has grand mal epilepsy and is also a scriptwriter and performance poet, is currently working on transcription poetry based on interviews with disabled people.
The core aim of his work, he says, and "all my life", has been about finding a voice for disabled people. He hopes to continue this at the London university's highly regarded research centre for user participation.
- Voluntary organisations across Scotland are set to receive £900,000 to help meet the cost of staff training.
The Scottish Government said the grant from the Voluntary Sector Development Fund will go to 67 providers including housing associations and care organisations.
Taking the brunt of the nations unwillingess to face up to the realities of modern family life would create stress in anyone.
The world is not necessarily filled with devoted, caring,responsible and loving parents and the media's tendency to sensationalize high profile stories exacerbates the problem
I'm not surprised so many social workers face burn out these days and it's wonderful that employers are starting to realise their stafff needa more holistic approach to stressful working environments.
Hi, I am a new social worker and doing a 9 week training course that prepares incoming social workers for field duty. The training is very stressful and I was told that the reason why it is stressful, is because, they want to make sure that new social workers are equipped to handle the stresses of social work. I have no problem with that, however, why stress people during training, wouldn't that scare them away? We should be relaxed during training not stressed out. It's just plain ridiculous to put new people through this unnecessary stress! This is my second week of training and I am really stressed out. I am doing my best to hang in there, but I'm tired. My supervisor has been monitoring my work and she told me that I have been stressing too much. Yes, I have because they are putting us through so much and expect us to not react when we burnt out. Does she assume that because you are social worker you are cold-blooded and stress resistant? That's bullshit and they know it. I am going to do my best to make it through this training because I want to be a good social worker. Please, someone, email me a response about this.