Supporting and developing resilience in social work

What does it take to become a resilient practitioner in social work? This free course, Supporting and developing resilience in social work, will guide you through some important concepts. An understanding of ‘emotional resilience’ and ‘professional leadership’ will help to guide you through taking a positive approach to problems that arise in social work practice. You will also be introduced to some ideas about leadership in social work practice.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 What is emotional resilience?
• 1 What is emotional resilience?
• 1.1 Social worker resilience
• 1.2 Coping with feelings of distress
• 1.3 Emotional labour
• 1.4 Organisational and socio-political factors
• 2 Enhancing resilience
• 2 Enhancing resilience
• 2.1 Creating your emotional resilience toolkit
• 2.2 Skills and techniques
• 3 Engaging with professional leadership
• 3 Engaging with professional leadership
• 3.1 Managers and leaders: what’s the difference?
• 3.2 Influencing the practice of others
• 4 Supervision
• 4 Supervision
• 4.1 Reflective supervision
• 4.2 Barriers to supervision
• 4.3 Going further
• 5 Reviewing emotional resilience
• 5 Reviewing emotional resilience
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements