Secondary Traumatic Stress and Burnout in child Welfare Worker: A Comparative Analysis of Occupational Distress Across Professional groups
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Summary:
This article is about a survey of 669 Child Welfare professionals who participated for the survey through email or post. The respondents completed "The Professional Quality of Life IV" to ascertain compassion fatigue and burnout symptoms. It starts to explain how Child Welfare professionals deal with a lot of traumatic stuff such as bad situations, or abuse stories etc. And by them hearing these cases or dealing with them is causes STS (Secondary Traumatic Stress). They feel that weight to being able to help the child and get them out of their bad situations.Analysis:
After analyzing this article the research was based on a small proportion of people and reading through the article it wasn't just the job that can cause them STS but they were also testing depending on where they live such as rural or urban cities. As well as their marital status either single or taken. This is a quote from the article "Respondents were asked to identify their living location. Potential responses included urban (apartment), urban (single-family dwelling), suburb (apartment), suburb (single-family dwelling), rural (apart- ment), and rural (single-family dwelling)."Response:
I feel by adding this they really weren't basing themselves on that the life of social worker is what can cause STS in their lives. I didn't feel this was accurate. I would of liked to see more research done in the office on what can cause their stress. Either too many case loads or the types of cases that can the social workers stressed out, for example if the kid is being raped. I do believe that social worker have a stressful job especially working for the government rather than non-profit organizations.
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I have an aunt who is a social worker and she is mostly stressed out most of the time. Her job is not as heavy because she's a counselor but she does believe it's worth it . I'm proud of you azquena it's nice to see that your working hard to strive for your career
Very good Azquena! I remember you talking about this specific topic earlier in the semester. And you probably don't recall me saying this, but my mother was a social worker for sometime, and from my experience of the stories I herd. apparently there is stereotypical views with social workers, like they are mean people, and are not very polite to other people. Well in a stressed out environment of a long days work, it is not very easy to maintain your composure. So, I would not doubt that that stress symptom is actually occurring from that kind of job, an interaction with people. I suggest that if thats the field you are sure you want to go into then you, must be aware of the demands, and have the right composure and focus to get the job done.
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