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.