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Emily Vargas

Yoga: Social work as Awareness:Mindfulness | What is a Social Worker? - 1 views

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yoga social worker mindfulness awareness

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  • the more I am coming to realize that the qualities social workers embody are the same qualities that are required in yoga practice
  • Noting this, yoga appears to originate from the idea that yoga is a state of mind before it is a physical gesture.
  • A state of mind that is calm, mindful, accepting, non-judging and intentional.
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  • Are these not the same qualities to those that social workers and helping professionals exemplify and humanize?
  • We side with clients and teach them to come back to themselves, to regulate, to be mindful, to act with intention, to breath.
  • Social workers help clients to develop coping skills that ground them back into the reality of their perceived threat
  • We do this kindly, without judgment, and we ask them to do the same towards themselves.
  • In work with clients it is important to get them to recognize that it is not their behavior but the thought guiding their behavior that needs attention
  • This idea brings us one step closer to knowing we can choose which thoughts to act upon
  • . It is the silence between the thoughts that is considered to awareness in yoga,
  • Be mindful – follow the breath – feel your body and where it is heavy and where it is open. Experience the moments and watch them pass by. If you find a thought that doesn’t serve, just let it go. Watch your thoughts go by. Choose the thought that best serves you and let the other ones go.”
  • Just as in social work practice, yoga is first a state of mind
  • Social workers empower clients in an effort to help them learn to be mindful and aware so they can fold into themselves and introspect to find insights and create change
  • A state of mind that is calm, mindful, accepting, non-judging and intentional.
Emily Vargas

Antisocial Social Worker: Mindfulness and Social Work - 0 views

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mindfulness social worker

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  • In those retreats, the majority of the meditation was the kind where you simply sit there and come back to the breath if you stray
  • my senses would be sharpened and I would feel very peaceful.
  • Working with highly anxious children back then, I was able to utilize many of the techniques that I knew, as well as some of the ones that I was taught.
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  • our eye is always on the future. We are filled with wants and desires that we do not need, but that consume our time and money. As well, so much of our emotions are wrapped up in this future orientation. By using mindfulness, we are able to come back to the present and just be in the moment.
  • I will be working with some groups, and in at least one of them, we will be using mindfulness
  • I also know how much mindfulness can help the people that use it.
Emily Vargas

Ethical Considerations About Spirituality in Social Work: Insights From a National Qual... - 0 views

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ethical spirituality

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  • 2,069 National Association of Social Workers members examined ethical concerns regarding religious and nonreligious spiritual issues in clinical practice settings
  • Practitioners' insights provide a basis to extend ethical guidelines in practice and education.
  • they likely lack guidelines for systematic ethical decision making about the use of spiritually oriented activities in practice
Emily Vargas

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy - 0 views

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mindfulness therapy

shared by Emily Vargas on 01 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • clients with various medical ailments, including hypertension, chronic pain, and cancer
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      Emily Vargas on 01 Oct 13
       
      This may be good for medical based social workers to help with clients who are experiencing medical issues that are causing anxiety and depression
  • Clients gain an ability to realign themselves away from their thoughts and feelings and focus instead on the occurring changes in their body and mind through yoga, breathing, and meditation.
  • This insight affords the client the opportunity to heal themselves by interjecting positive thoughts and responses to the moods in order to disarm them.
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  • Participants are armed with knowledge regarding depression as an illness, and are given additional tools to combat their depressive symptoms as they arise
  • order to facilitate a complete and rapid progression to healing.
  • Clients who use this technique will often be able to revert to these methods in times of distress or when they are faced with situations that cause them to lose their sense of separation from their thoughts.
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      Emily Vargas on 01 Oct 13
       
      You can work with clients in understanding how to use these techniques when they are feeling to anxious.
  • Training programs encompass a variety of activities, including role playing, lectures, yoga, meditation, group classes and sustained periods of silence.
  • . In addition, this method works equally as well to relieve the symptoms of various psychological issues including anxiety and panic.
  • The original platform was designed to address the needs of people who suffered from multiple events of depression
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