Thank you for offering such an informative perspective. I thank you for giving a very clear and concise portrait of compassion fatigue, and self-care. I wholeheartedly agree with you that self-care is critical to the profession of social work. I believe a greater emphasis needs to be placed on self-care to not only prevent burnout but to improve the quality of care social workers offer to clients. Furthermore, not only do I agree with your statement that every social worker needs to have a self-care plan, I think it should be mandated by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), because we all know the time-tested peer reviewed results that point out a social worker who does not have an effective self-care plan will experience
