Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify self-care practices among two of the specializations within the social work graduate program offered at California State University, Sacramento. The focus was on the Behavioral Health and Children and Families specializations, and the Tittle IV-E program sub-group. The hypothesis guiding this study is that the Children and Families specialization will report higher levels of self-care practices likely because the sub group of Title IV-E participants receives extra resources of financial and professional support. This study used convenience sampling and snowball sampling of 70 MSWII student participants within the graduate social work program at California State University, Sacramento. Both qualitative and quantitative data was collected through survey distribution to practice classes and through Survey Monkey. An ANOVA test was used to compare the groups and explore areas of statistical significance. This test revealed the presence of statistical difference of at the .05 level for the three conditions [F(2,65)= 4.77, p=0.012], and therefore a post hoc test using the Tukey HSD was conducted in order to find the specific specialization with significant diffferences in this sample. The post-hoc comparison using the Tukey HSD test indicated that the mean score between the Behavioral Health and Title IV-E scores were significantly different.