10.5 Practice
Journal Prompts
- How has your DEI lens grown and changed throughout the practicum experience? How will you apply this new knowledge in the future?
- Think about your goals for yourself and how you hope to impact the field of human services. Create a goal statement for what you hope to accomplish in the next 1–3 years as you begin your career.
Self-Care Activity
- Mindfulness, Looking Forward: We have focused on a different self-care activity in each chapter of this text. However, as we discussed in Chapter 9, not all of these activities will feel like the right fit for you. This chapter’s activity asks you to put together a self-care package that you can take with you into the future. The best way to prevent burnout in the human services field is to practice self-care before the symptoms of burnout even start. Make a list of the self-care activities that you found helpful, adding other activities that you have found helpful in the past. Keep this list handy, and try to practice at least one of them weekly. Keeping in mind that self-care is a highly individual concept, journaling has been found to have beneficial effects for self-care and self-esteem. If keeping a journal feels like just another chore, you might try a gratitude journal, in which you note daily just 1–2 things that you are grateful for that day.
Class Discussion Topics
- What are your fears regarding job seeking?
- What excites you about job seeking?
- How will you describe your strengths in your résumé, cover letters, and in interviews?
- What is the best advice you can give your classmates for interviews?
Practice Licenses and Attributions
“Practice” by Sally Guyer MSW and Yvonne Smith LCSW licensed under CC-BY 4.0.
definition
any activity you participate in whose function is to nourish you either physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
the feeling of emotional and/or physical exhaustion brought on by work-related stress.
a summary of your experience, knowledge and skills that demonstrates your ability to perform the job for which you are applying