Professional resilience
Learning Objectives
After considering this resource, you should understand the concept of resilience, appreciate its importance to social workers and be able to assess your own professional resilience and take steps to develop it.
Social work is rewarding, but also hugely demanding. Developing your professional resilience will help you protect your wellbeing and manage the challenges you are likely to face. But what does resilience mean? And what can you do to enhance it?
This article by Liz Frost tackles those questions, looking at the social and emotional dimensions of resilience and offering a model for understanding and developing its key elements.
Reflective Questions
- What are your sources of recognition?
- What motivated you to train as a social worker? What things do you think are most likely to motivate you going forwards?
- When have you felt most empowered and effective in the last year and why?
- What are your hopes for the future?