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ArticleCounselor (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)

The Impact of Staff Turnover on Workplace Demands and Coworker Relationships.

Danica K Knight, Jennifer E Becan, Patrick M Flynn

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Article in Counselor (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Work orientations and turnover.Journal of population economics · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Danica K KnightInstitute of Behavioral Research, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 76129 USA.
Jennifer E BecanInstitute of Behavioral Research, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 76129 USA.
Patrick M FlynnInstitute of Behavioral Research, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 76129 USA.
Texas Christian University · US

Funding

Organizational/Resource Assess:Treatment Providers (RMI)R01DA014468 · NIDA · TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY · PI FLYNN, PATRICK M · 2003 to 2007
$3.3M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA014468
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Turnover among clinical staff can have detrimental effects on service provision and organizational efficiency. But how does it affect staff who remain employed at the agency? Researchers at the Institute of Behavioral Research at Texas Christian University sought to answer this question by examining the impact of staff turnover on perceptions of workplace demands and support among 353 clinical staff members from 63 outpatient substance abuse treatment programs. Study results documented that counselors in high-turnover programs reported higher demands (job stress, inadequate staffing) and lower support (communication, collaboration) within their organization, even after controlling for other factors such as decreasing budgets, increasing census, and individual measures of workload. Findings underscore the need to intentionally promote workplace communication and collaboration among staff following the departure of a coworker in order to reduce stress and minimize subsequent turnover among remaining clinical staff.

Indexed as

coworker supportorganizational functioningstaff turnoverstresssubstance abuse treatment

Identifiers

PMID27540331
PMCPMC4986917
OpenAlexW2521930323

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