The mindfulness-based social work and self-care (MBSWSC) programme focusses on improving social work practice and self-care. It is a programme which has developed a strong evidence base for its effectiveness at reducing stress, emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation of service users, symptoms of anxiety and depression, and improving well-being and a range of social work practice skills and competencies.
At the BASW UK conference in June 2025 an international team of researchers from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Australia delivered BASW’s Kay McDougall Prize Lecture, presenting their award winning article from BJSW: ‘If we know what works, why aren’t we doing it?’ https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article/54/6/2808/7685501
In this session, two members of the researhc team will reprise their conference presentation for the benefit of all BASW members.