In this episode of Relational Practice: A Social Work Podcast, Dr. Jodie Park and Rose Mackey tackle the heavy weight of professional fallibility. We often feel that because we work with human lives, we aren’t allowed the luxury of being human ourselves, leading to those 3:00 AM "mistake loops" in our minds.

Using the seminal work of Professor Eileen Munro, we dismantle the idea that errors are simply acts of incompetence. Instead, we explore how the high-pressure environments of child protection and social work naturally trigger cognitive biases and mental shortcuts.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The Core Conflict: Balancing fast, intuitive reasoning with slow, logical analytic thinking.
• Reasoning Traps: How "Confirmation Bias," "Availability Bias," and "The Primacy Effect" can skew  ...