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Watch the video clip of Dr. Peter Meagher, a Core faculty member of the Social Work program at Walden University. In the video, Dr. Meagher explains the importance of self-care in clinical practice.

“To be at your best as a social worker, you need to be taking care of yourself, you need to be eating well, you need to be exercising, you need to be getting enough sleep, you need to have good social support. All the things that we do with our clients, they need to be healthy in all of those ways. We need to have places where we can go with our stress and that are healthy places [13:58:21]. And when that’s not happening, it gets reflected onto the clients that we work with. You know in the sort of minimal way, it could be a lapse of judgment. In a worst-case scenario, in my view, we do something really harmful to a client—we make an inappropriate judgment, we do some sort of inappropriate comment, there’s an inappropriate touch or some kind of connection with them that’s not appropriate.”

For this Assignment, submit by Day 7 a 2- to 3-page entry in your Reflection Journal on your personal perspective on burnout and the strategies you will use as an advanced clinical social worker. Address the following in your entry:
• Explain your view on burnout and how it may or may not impact your personal practice as a social worker.
• Analyze and discuss the findings in the Kim, Ji, and Kao (2011) study as it relates to your personal practice.
• Use the literature to identify at least two evidence-based self-care strategies.
• Explain which strategies you find personally useful.
• Explain which strategies you may already implement in your practice.