Counselors engage in self-care activities to maintain and promote their own emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual well-being to best meet their professional responsibilities.
—2014 ACA Code of Ethics, Section C: “Professional Responsibility,” Introduction
To be successful in your mental health counseling career and remain passionate about serving clients, it is necessary to maintain personal and professional wellness. Helping clients, while intrinsically rewarding, is difficult work. Counseling sessions are often filled with intense client stories, experiences, and emotions that can be stressful for you as well as for the client. Focusing solely on clients and losing sight of yourself can have a significant impact on your effectiveness as a counselor and can potentially lead to burnout.
For this Assignment, you will develop a Self-Care Plan that you can use to help maintain your personal and professional wellness.
To Prepare:
· Review the results from your VIA Survey of Character Strengths, which you completed in this week’s Discussion.
· Review the Learning Resources related to self-care.
· Review the Self-Care Plan Template you will use to help create your plan.
Assignment:
· Complete your Self-Care Plan using the template.
Submit your Week 2 Self-Care Plan Assignment.
Looking Ahead
This course will require you to complete your first academic paper for your program of study. Please be mindful that you will need to begin planning for this first academic paper by reviewing strategies for how to search the Walden Library databases. Please see the Learning Resources throughout the course to guide you.
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