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KMID : 1151020190470030005
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Mental Health & Social Work
2019 Volume.47 No. 3 p.5 ~ p.34
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Perception and Experience of Self-Care by Mental Health Social Workers
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Park Hyang-Kyun
Kwon Ja-Young
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Abstract
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This study is an explanatory study of the perception and experience of self-care of mental health social workers. Data was collected over three sessions using FGI and analyzed using subject analysis method. Research participants included 19 mental health social workers with work experience of 3~10 years at mental health centers, mental rehabilitation facilities, and mental health clinics. Research results showed that the perception and experience of self-care of mental health social workers could be analyzed into six subjects: entering the mental health practice field, perceiving myself and my surrounding in the reality of the mental health practice field, slowly becoming exhausted, ways to overcome crisis, unfamiliar but sort of realizing how to self-care, and boundary and space for self-care. Based on these results, policy and practice recommendations were made on the following: creating a sympathetic and caring mental health practice environment, development and provision of a systematic self-care education program for the emotional welfare and growth of mental health social workers as professionals, and provision of self-care education and education about mental health social workers’ trauma, secondary trauma, and burn out during the process of mental health social work training.
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KEYWORD
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mental health social worker, self-care, trauma, secondary trauma, mental health facility care environment
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