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Financial Boundaries Social Workers Struggle to Set (and How to Build Them)

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Journal showing financial boundaries social workers struggle to set, including notes about unpaid overtime, undercharging, and avoiding fee discussions

In the first two posts in this series, we explored why financial stress in social work goes deeper than low pay, and how the money beliefs we developed in childhood shape our financial behavior through the Relationship → Behavior → Circumstances chain. Today, I want to focus on one of the most common behavioral expressions […]

Filed Under: Professional Development, Social Work Career Tagged With: financial boundaries social workers, financial self-care, money beliefs, private practice fees, professional boundaries, salary negotiation, self-advocacy, setting boundaries, social work burnout, social worker wellbeing

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