Emotional Readiness for Social Work Practice: A Skills-Building Guide

Developing interpersonal skills, emotional maturity, self- awareness, and meaningful relationships are requirements for social workers because these concepts suggest emotional readiness for professional practice. Emotional readiness for professional practice can be described as one’s ability to navigate the complexities of social work practice in a professional, mature, productive, and consistent manner. Adequately cultivating these skills is relevant because social workers often engage in situations that require management of our own emotions while simultaneously supporting others. 

Emotional Readiness for Social Work Practice: A Skills-Building Guide is an important skills-building guidebook that provides future social work students with a meaningful knowledge base to facilitate developing emotional readiness for professional practice. The thoughtful activities within the guidebook allow course instructors to assess the progress students are making towards achieving emotional readiness for social work practice.