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Busy day in beautiful Bodo! Another really engaged+interesting discussion with colleagues F0RSA 2023 on how the CBPM theory might help to improve social worker and student self-care and reflective social work practice through the MBSWSC programme UCDSocialPolWorkJust Northern Ireland Social Care Council IASW

Really enjoyed presenting my research to UCD Humanities Institute on which mechanisms of #Mindfulness can help to improve stress, burnout, well-being, and symptoms of anxiety and depression, when mindfulness is supported by psychoeducation and applied reflective learning UCDSocialPolWorkJust

Great to have our focus group paper, which explored the effects of the Mindfulness-based Social Work and Self-Care progamme (MBSWSC) on social work practice published #socialwork #retention UCDSocialPolWorkJust IASW Paper is available to view here: rdcu.be/dn0cL

📣We are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the 11th Annual Social Work and Social Care Research in Practice Conference that will take place on Wednesday, 24 March 2024. Find out more👉 niscc.info/Research-Confe…

Pleased to have this paper published, that highlights stress as a universal risk factor for depression, anxiety and poor well-being in social workers, emotional exhaustion as a risk factor for anxiety, with personal accomplishment being a protective factor bit.ly/3FNvzrh

Delighted to have this paper, which replicated and expanded our results that Mindfulness-Based Social Work and Self-Care reduces stress, emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, anxiety, and depression, and improves well-being published RCSI School of Population Health doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/b…

Delighted to have this paper published. It highlights the roles that self-compassion, acceptance, mindfulness, decentering, non-attachment, non-aversion, worry, and rumination could play in social worker stress and burnout rdcu.be/dzVcj RCSI Health Psychology RCSI School of Population Health

Great to have this paper published, which highlights how MBSWSC improved social work assessments, service user engagement and team working, values oriented social work practice, and the development of key social work skills RCSI School of Population Health RCSI Health Psychology tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A fascinating insight into mental health and mindfulness for social workers from Dr Alan Maddock #WSWD2024 #swscresearch2024 #mentalhealth

📚Explore and contribute with new #research and insights on the intersection of #social work and #mindfulness in our Special Issue led by Dr. Alan Maddock and @pearsemac: mdpi.com/journal/socsci… #SocialWork #TransformativePractices #CommunityImpact

Just logging in to submit a paper revision to the BJSW and what a lovely surprise to see this paper is one of the most read :-)

Delighted to publish this paper in Mindfulness. It highlights how increased self-compassion, acceptance, mindfulness, attention regulation, non-attachment, and non-aversion reduce negative thinking, stress, and burnout in social workers RCSI Health Psychology rdcu.be/dIvY3

Delighted to have this paper published in the British Journal of Social Work. This paper identifies a number of potentially important protective and risk factors for depression, anxiety and poor well-being in social workers RCSI School of Population Health RCSI Health Psychology shorturl.at/ZBoZP

Really enjoyed presenting some of the results from our work which examined social, psychological and physical determinants of psychological distress and PTSD amongst persons with physical disabilities in Cambodia at #EHPS2024 Nerrolyn Ramstrand RCSI Health Psychology RCSI School of Population Health

The Scholar and Alumni Panel held a discussion with the first-year scholars of the SPHeRE Programme in honor of Peer Learning Day 2024. We appreciate Dr. Alan Maddock, Dr. Viveka Guzmán, Rebecca Trower, Aoife Burke, and David McEvoy's willingness to participate on the panel.

Coping strategies for life with cancer is the theme of the third episode in the RCSI MyHealth series 2024/2025. This in-person event will feature healthcare providers, & patient & family advocates sharing personal insights & coping strategies.

A lovely email acknowledgement to get from the publishers of the premier Social Work journal in Europe 😀 RCSI School of Population Health RCSI Health Psychology

Funded PhD opportunity in RCSI: mixed-methods project addressing low uptake rates for home haemodialysis therapies - apply here sphereprogramme.ie/renal-path-pro… ERA - European Renal Association IrishNephrologyNurse Irish Nephrology Society

If you're a social worker wanting to improve self care & wellbeing while reducing stress & emotional exhaustion, take part in our Mindfulness-Based Social Work & Self-Care Programme. Starts September. See iasw.ie Dr. Alan Maddock National HSCP Office, HSE Practice Links (@UCCsocialwork) Vivian Geiran