Professional Boundaries for Social Workers

Overview

The focus of this training event is to equip children's social workers with knowledge skills, practice examples and provide them opportunity to apply boundaries in work settings

Who is Professional Boundaries for Social Workers aimed at?

Children's Social Workers

Course Length

1 day

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the course, participants will have:

• A shared understanding of the definition of the meaning of boundaries in a professional setting
• An understanding of current research regarding the impact of ineffective boundary setting
• Explored tools available to use to effectively set and maintain boundaries
• An understanding of how outcomes for clients can be improved with proactive boundary setting
• An awareness of how the use of self can impact on boundaries and the perception of boundaries by others through practice opportunities
• An Understanding of different issues which affect the setting and maintaining of boundaries including personal, organisation and staff approaches to working with boundaries
• The ability to confidently identify when to set boundaries and when to share concerns with others