enhancing social work skills and confidence building by chris dyke
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Enhancing Social Work Skills and
confidence buildingby Chris Dyke
Motivation
Do you really want to do the job?
Not just a…
Physical job
Intellectual job
Emotional job
Political job
Social job
ALL OF THESE!
(and more)
What motivates you?
Managing Workloads: organising yourself…
To-do list for Wednesday1. Reply to new emails/messages (by 10am)
2. Write casenote from last night’s visit (by 11am)
3. FINISH Jones Assessment (by 12:30pm)
Lunch12:30-1:15
4. Re-read papers for Smith case
5. Leave for Smith visit at 2pm, get 14:08 train2:30pm: Smith Home Visit, 123 Wilson Road6. Back by ?4:15pm
7. Write up Smith casenote (by 5pm)
ANXIETY ABOUT THE WORK(venting about stress to colleagues, complaining, ‘freezing’,
talking to people outside work about stress)
THE WORK(the whole thing: talking to children/families; writing
reports; going to meetings; having supervision; reflecting; learning; training etc)
ARGUING ABOUT THE WORK(arguments over why you can’t do it, why someone else
should be doing it; having meetings about who should do the work; having meetings about why it hasn’t been done)
This is tough, but do-able: {
This is impossible:{
Boundaries and emotional health
Reflection Integrity Reliability