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For Child Welfare Workers and Other Professionals

Links to resources regarding secondary trauma experienced by child welfare workers and other professionals.

The Cost of Caring: Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Impact of Working With High-Risk Children and Families
ChildTrauma Academy
Online training course designed to present an overview of secondary traumatic stress and teach child welfare workers approaches and strategies to decrease risk for developing trauma-related symptoms.

Educating Child Welfare Workers About Secondary Traumatic Stress (PDF - 237 KB)
Pryce, Shackelford, & Pryce (2007)
In Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Child Welfare Professional
Discusses strategies for educating child welfare professionals on how secondary traumatic stress differs from burnout, how it arises, and intervention options.

Mental Health in Child Welfare: A Focus on Caregivers
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice
Best Practice/Next Practice: Family-Centered Child Welfare, Winter, 2004
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Addresses the effects of secondary traumatic stress and the ways in which the child welfare system can support professionals, parents, and other caregivers.

Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Child Welfare Professional
Pryce, Shackelford, & Pryce (2007)
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Explores the secondary trauma experienced by child welfare professionals, describes symptoms of secondary trauma stress, and offers treatment and intervention strategies.

Secondary Traumatic Stress in Child Welfare Workers: Exploring the Role of Supervisory Culture
Bride & Jones
Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education, 9(2), 2006
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Examines relationships between symptoms of secondary traumatic stress and child welfare workers' perceptions of the culture of supervision in their organizations.

Stress, Social Support, and Workers' Intentions to Leave Their Jobs in Public Child Welfare
Nissly, Mor, Michál, & Levin
Administration in Social Work, 29(1), 2005
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Present results of a study examining the relationships among stress, social support, and intention to leave their job in public child welfare workers.

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Updated on March 1, 2010