Wanting and listening
Loneliness, the theme of Mental Health Awareness Week 2022, offers us with a well timed reminder of a standard set off to poor psychological well being and emotional wellbeing.
If we wanted reminding, our social work functionality to evaluate and work alongside individuals in their very own dwelling environments is so important to understanding wants and preferences, while formulating an expert judgement on potential plans and interventions.
I’m a powerful advocate of our social work communication ability set which includes listening to others, significantly when working to grasp how somebody pertains to another person or how they handle their affairs on a everyday foundation.
And regardless of our greatest intentions to satisfy individuals on a head to head foundation, I’m additionally aware of people who find themselves typically hidden in plain sight inside our respective communities.
Psychological Well being Consciousness Week offers us with a useful immediate to re-double our efforts to suppose ‘loneliness’ after we obtain contacts and referrals for our skilled interventions. It additionally encourages us to proactively take into account assertive approaches, which supply individuals a chance to obtain the care and assist they want in a way which fits them greatest.
Contemplate our personal wants too
In fact, we have to take care of ourselves too and be alert to the psychological well being wants of our well being and care colleagues, a lot of whom will work exterior our sphere of social work follow. That’s why I commend social care colleagues’ continued entry to Our Frontline: a collection of psychological well being and wellbeing sources, obtainable seven days per week, all year long.
Even social care professionals want somebody to speak to often and replicate on their very own way of thinking. This yr’s theme could also be centered on ‘loneliness’ however relating to assist, recommendation and a listening ear supplied with out judgment, we’re by no means alone.
