TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the self-compassion of health-care social workers
T2 - How do they fare?
AU - Lianekhammy, Joann
AU - Miller, J. Jay
AU - Lee, Jacquelyn
AU - Pope, Natalie
AU - Barnhart, Sheila
AU - Grise-Owens, Erlene
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/8/9
Y1 - 2018/8/9
N2 - Indubitably, the challenges facing health-care social workers are becoming increasingly complex. Whilst these problematic professional circumstances compound the need for self-compassion among health-care social workers, few studies, if any, have explicitly examined self-compassion among this practitioner group. This cross-sectional study explored self-compassion among a sample of practitioners (N = 138) in one southeastern state. Results indicate that health-care social workers in this sample engage in self-compassion only moderately. Further, occupational and demographic/life characteristics (e.g., age, years practicing social work, average hours worked per week, health status, and relationship status, among others) are able to predict self-compassion scores. After a terse review of relevant literature, this paper will explicate findings from this study, discuss relevant points derived from said findings, and identify salient implication for health-care social work praxis.
AB - Indubitably, the challenges facing health-care social workers are becoming increasingly complex. Whilst these problematic professional circumstances compound the need for self-compassion among health-care social workers, few studies, if any, have explicitly examined self-compassion among this practitioner group. This cross-sectional study explored self-compassion among a sample of practitioners (N = 138) in one southeastern state. Results indicate that health-care social workers in this sample engage in self-compassion only moderately. Further, occupational and demographic/life characteristics (e.g., age, years practicing social work, average hours worked per week, health status, and relationship status, among others) are able to predict self-compassion scores. After a terse review of relevant literature, this paper will explicate findings from this study, discuss relevant points derived from said findings, and identify salient implication for health-care social work praxis.
KW - Health-care social work
KW - self-compassion
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U2 - 10.1080/00981389.2018.1471017
DO - 10.1080/00981389.2018.1471017
M3 - Article
C2 - 29723135
AN - SCOPUS:85046465691
SN - 0098-1389
VL - 57
SP - 563
EP - 580
JO - Social Work in Health Care
JF - Social Work in Health Care
IS - 7
ER -