Design and justify a personal self-care strategy

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Self-Care and Developing Resilience

Part A: Critical Reflection.

Learning Outcome 1: Critically reflect on personal strengths and vulnerabilities

Recognise symptoms of burnout and examine how they apply to you as a professional and for your clients

Design and justify a personal self-care strategy to minimise burnout and absenteeism

Task Summary
Using the personal reflective journal you have been asked to write since Week 1, critically reflect on your strengths and vulnerabilities. Compile a 300-word introductory reflection on a personal self- care strategy. This strategy should seek to address your own self-care needs as a professional, in order to help prevent, or to help move you beyond, burnout in your working context. You will then apply your self-care strategy developed in Assessment 1 Part A to later complete a reflexive evaluation in Assessment 1 Part B.

Context
This course has so far confirmed key concepts found in the practice of the helping professions: stress, empathy, resilience and self-care. This task requires you to identify your personal strengths and vulnerabilities, and been given a grounding in the challenges of professional burnout and compassion fatigue. You will also have been provided with tools and strategies to build awareness of your personal self-care needs.

This assessment is designed to draw your attention to a deeper awareness of the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in who you are, and the self-care needs this implies in a professional context. The aim is to develop effective strategies to help you remain healthy in mind, body and spirit as you work in your chosen profession.

Task Instructions

During the learning modules of this subject, you will create a personal journal in which you regularly enter written reflections that help you to process your experience of this subject and relate your new knowledge to your wider life. This journal will be for your eyes only, but will form the basis of material with which you will be able to complete Assessment 1, Parts A & B.

Step 1: Examine reflective journal entries
Critically examine your weekly journal reflections on personal strengths and vulnerabilities, as they relate to your professional context.
See the document titled ‘Helpful Tools for Reflection', found in Assessment 1 information area to guide the reflective process.

Step 2: Critical Reflection Write up
Formulate a 300-word self-care strategy proposal that addresses your personal needs as a helping professional. The aim for your self-care strategy is to build your resilience, and overcoming or avoiding burnout.
Perhaps you have already identified contexts in which you feel challenged or lacking in sufficient emotional resources. Alternatively, maybe you have reflected upon past experiences that may be useful to draw upon in the future. Draw upon current theories and models found in literature and presented in your weekly module learning to inform your self-care strategy proposal.
You will apply your self-care strategy over the following weeks and write about this experience in your weekly journals. For Assessment 1 Part b, you will conclude with a reflexive evaluation of your self-care strategy.

Referencing
It is essential that you use appropriate APA style for citing and referencing research.

Reference no: EM133589877

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