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Self-Care is an important component of social work practice, it is integral to preventing or assuaging burnout, vicarious trauma, and professional stress, can help deal with burnout. Self-Care has also been linked to professional self-efficacy is instrumental to providing quality services to clients.

First Self-Care Lab in Europe was established in June 2023 at Institute of Educology and Social Work, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov (IESP FF PU), Slovakia – member universities of European Association of Schools of Social Work. Self-Care Lab is specifically dedicated to empirically investigating self-care among helping professionals. IESP FF PU is also one of establishers of Global Self-Care Initiative - international research, carried since 2018, focuses on the Self-Care of social workers in various countries of the world.

The main aim of this Special Interest Group is to support and empirically investigating Self-are among social workers and social work educators. Establish cross-cultural partnerships between universities focused on development Self-Care practice as a part of pre-gradual and post-gradual education in social work. Organise biennial the International scientific symposium on the topic of Self-Care in Social Work. Conduct Self-Care workshops and training for social workers and social work students.

List of participating members:

assoc. prof. Ing. Mgr. Zuzana Poklembová, PhD., Institute of Educology and Social Work, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov, Slovakia,

prof. PhDr. Beata Balogová, PhD., MBA, Institute of Educology and Social Work, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov, Slovakia,

prof. Florin Lazar PhD., Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Romania,

prof. J. Jay Miller, Ph.D, MSW, CSW. College of Social Work, University of Kentucky, USA,

prof. Dr. Judit Csoba, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Debrecen, Hungary,

prof. Dr. Christos Panagiotopoulos, Department of Social Science, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

assoc. prof. Elena-Iulia Mardare, PhD., Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Romania,

prof. Csaba Laszlo Degi, PhD., Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babes-Bolyai Unversity of Cluj, Romania.

We believe that Special Interest Group Self-Care in Social Work create base for further improvement of highly professional education in the field of social work.

Contact:

scl@smail.unipo.sk

zuzana.poklembova@unipo.sk