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Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress among Child Welfare Workers Who Experience a Maltreatment Fatality on their Caseload.
- Source :
- Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work; Jul2013, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p373-387, 15p, 5 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Annually, 1,000–2,000 child welfare workers experience the death of a child client. The child welfare field has paid increasing attention to the impact of workplace trauma events on the psychological distress of child welfare workers. In this article the author assesses the relationship between experiencing a maltreatment fatality and workers' posttraumatic stress among a multi-state sample of 385 child welfare workers. Results indicate that a maltreatment fatality is not associated with higher rates of posttraumatic stress. Among child welfare workers who experienced a fatality, those who feel greater culpability for the death report higher levels of posttraumatic stress. Implications for future research and practice are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- CHILD mortality
EDUCATIONAL attainment
AGE distribution
CHI-squared test
CHILD abuse
CHILD welfare
CHILDREN'S health
EMPLOYEE attitudes
INDUSTRIAL hygiene
MULTIVARIATE analysis
POPULATION geography
POST-traumatic stress disorder
QUESTIONNAIRES
REGRESSION analysis
RESEARCH funding
PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience
SELF-evaluation
SOCIAL workers
STATISTICS
SURVEYS
T-test (Statistics)
WORLD Wide Web
ATTITUDES toward death
SOCIAL support
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15433714
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 89358262
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15433714.2012.664058