To prepare:
- Review the Learning Resources on resilience and building such resilience in the context of the professional self.
- Access and navigate to your selected case in the Case Studies interactive media in the Learning Resources.
- Analyze how the social worker in the case is showing up at work. In what ways is the trauma-exposure response impacting their professional life and responsibilities?
- If the social worker were your colleague, how might you approach the work issue with them?
Submit a 2- to 3-page paper in which you:
- Explain how the social worker’s response to trauma exposure (i.e., burnout, compassion fatigue, or vicarious trauma) is impacting their work.
- Imagine that the social worker was your colleague.
- Explain how you would address the work issue with them, and why it is important to do so, based on the NASW Code of Ethics. How would you start the conversation?
- What would your next steps be after the conversation?
Use the Learning Resources to support your Assignment. Make sure to provide APA citations and a reference list.
