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Jan 2025
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How to overcome the 'what if' worries as...

Vicki: Social Work Sorted
About this episode

This is for you if you are an ASYE feeling worried or apprehensive about something you have coming up.

I'm sharing practical strategies for that sense of dread you feel before home visits, meetings, whatever it is that is leaving you unsure. 

I reference this article which I'd recommend reading: 
Louise O’Connor, Agile Emotion Practices: Findings from an Ethnographic Study of Children and Families Social Work, The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 52, Issue 7, October 2022, Pages 4149–4170

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