The social work profession experiences elevated stress and burnout rates, yet self-care and resilience building remain underdeveloped areas in professional training. This paper explores the integration of Sophrology, a structured mind-body practice, into social work education to promote students’ self-awareness, emotion regulation and wellbeing.
While limited in scale, findings suggest Sophrology’s potential as an innovative, cost-effective approach to enhance wellbeing and resilience among social work students.
Access the paper in the Social Work Education Journal here
Rees, M., Palmer, B., Murphy, E., & Lafarge, C. (2026). Sophrology in social work education: exploring an innovative mind-body method to support student wellbeing and resilience.
Social Work Education, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2026.2636685