Application Research Of Self-help Mindfulness Training In Improving The Quality Of Social Workers' Professional Life

The study aims to understand the status quo of professional life quality of social workers,develop a self-help mindfulness intervention program suitable for social workers,explore the improving effect of self-help mindfulness training on the professional life quality of social workers so as to provide effective and economic self-care strategies for social workers.With semi-structured interview and questionnaire survey,this paper gives an objective description of the professional life quality of 165 social workers.This paper presents the status quo of professional life quality of social workers truthfully,focusing on the factors affecting the professional life quality of social workers.The researcher designed a self-help mindfulness intervention program based on the needs of social workers on de-self-individuation,welfare and emotions.There are two set of contrast test(intervention group with control group and pre-intervention with post-intervention group).Eighty-six subjects were randomly assigned to the intervention group and control group with intervention available to the intervention group only.In the second and fourth weeks after the end of the intervention,Follow-up tests were conducted on the members of the intervention group to verify the effectiveness of the intervention program and explore the maintenance of the intervention effect.The study found that social workers have a high risk of developing compassionate fatigue.The compassionate fatigue,however,can be buffered by self-help mindfulness intervention,which is confirmed by the empirical research.The empirical research also found that self-help mindfulness intervention can reduce the incidence of job burnout and secondary traumatic stress with an optimal effect within two weeks.It can also improve some social workers' self-control ability,attentiveness and listening skills as well as empathy and self-disclosure skills.The self-help mindfulness intervention program for social workers formulated in this study is of wide acceptability and satisfaction and applicability.