專業講座系列Professional Talk Series

COVID-19 has accelerated trends towards digital communication in human services. This talk discusses the ethical challenges for social workers, for whom human relationships lie at the heart of their work. It draws on data from an international survay in May 2020 and an ongoing survey of UK social workers during 2020-21 to examine lessons from digital working during COVID-19 from a virtue ethical perspective.

COVID-19 has accelerated trends towards digital communication in human services. This talk discusses the ethical challenges for social workers, for whom human relationships lie at the heart of their work. It draws on data from an international survay in May 2020 and an ongoing survey of UK social workers during 2020-21 to examine lessons from digital working during COVID-19 from a virtue ethical perspective.

Challenges to parenting can produce considerable stress, which may deteriorate the quality of the parent-child relationship. Environmental stressors, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, surely have increased parental stress. Mindful Parenting is a structured mindfulness training program. It focuses on mindfulness-based skills for parents, including parenting with beginner’s mind, awareness of strong emotions in parents and child, mindfully responding to parenting stress, fostering compassion, and taking care of oneself.