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Your Money Story: How Childhood Messages Shape Your Financial Life as a Social Worker

By Dorlee

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Why do so many social workers undercharge, avoid negotiations, and feel guilty saving money? It starts with the money beliefs social workers develop long before entering the field.

Filed Under: Social Work Career, Professional Development Tagged With: childhood money messages, financial behavior, financial social work, financial socialization, financial wellness, imposter syndrome, money beliefs, money mindset, money scripts, professional development, self-care, social worker wellbeing

Financial Self-Care Is a Necessity, Not a Luxury!

By Dorlee

Financial Self-Care Is a Necessity

Financial self-care leads to greater financial health and overall wellbeing. Would you like to improve your financial self-care? This post will provide you with a brief introduction to Financial Social Work, and how to begin to engage in better financial self-care. Financial Social Work is an interactive and introspective psychosocial behavioral model developed by Reeta Wolfsohn, CMSW, that helps […]

Filed Under: Clinical Practice, Self Care Tagged With: financial health, financial social work, money story, relationship with your money, well-being

What Every Social Worker Needs to Know About Financial Self-Care

By Dorlee

What is financial self-care? Have you heard of the term Financial Social Work and wondered what it was referring to? Today’s interview is with Reeta Wolfsohn, CMSW, the developer of Financial Social Work and founder of the Center of Financial Social Work. In essence, Financial Social Work is an innovative financial self-care toolkit that could enable both you and […]

Filed Under: Clinical Practice, Expert Interviews Tagged With: financial self-care, financial social work, innovation, Reeta Wolfsohn

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