Self-Care, Self-Knowledge

Stress, power issues with clients, burnout, time management and dealing with our own biases are all issues Settlement Workers face in their day-to-day work. This section will identify issues and provide resources to help cope and deal with individual self-care.

Featured Resources

Self-Care for Professionals - self-assessment tools and exercises to help service providers to consider their own well-being.

Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue (CSF) Test - an online test to determine if you are suffering from compassion burnout.

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Time and Work Management
Whether you are an efficient worker or practicing procrastinator, good time management is a key element to a successful career.

Mental Health and Stress
Service providers who are repeatedly exposed to traumatic events or victims of trauma or stress can themselves experience feelings of terror, rage, and despair.

Client Power Issues
Workers must also deal with the reality of power issues in a client relationship. Develop a client bill of rights in your daily work.

Information Overload
Information overload costs organizations and individuals valuable time, effort and additional resources...and the cost is rising.

Identity and Bias
Differences in any element of your and and your client’s cultural identity can have an impact on the counselling relationship.