ArticleChild abuse & neglect2020
Secondary trauma and impairment in clinical social workers.
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- Secondary Traumatic Stress and Positive Adaptation Among Social Workers: The Roles of Burnout, Compassion Satisfaction, and Perceived Social Support in a Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- "The most stress comes from witnessing the abuse of children" -challenges faced by research assistants in community-based research in Mtwara, Tanzania.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and mental health outcomes among women in sex work and social care: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The perceived burden of working with traumatized youth: construction and psychometric investigation of the Trauma Professionals' Burden Scale (TPBS).European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- The cost of caring: professional differences in the burden of trauma-related work.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Understanding compassion fatigue among social workers: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Navigating the Shadows of Others' Traumas: An In-Depth Examination of Secondary Traumatic Stress and Psychological Distress among Rescue Professionals.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Fear of COVID-19 and secondary trauma: Moderating role of self-efficacy.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Training Indigenous Community Researchers for Community-Based Participatory Ethnographic Dementia Research: A Second-Generation Model.International journal of qualitative methodsArticle
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Abstract
backgroundSecondary traumatic stress (STS), symptomatology resulting from indirect exposure to trauma, is one potential negative effect from engaging in clinical social work. Yet, little is known about the relationship between STS and workers' distress and impairment due to their work.
objectiveThe purpose of this paper was to explore STS in a national sample of clinical social workers (N = 539). METHOD AND
resultsA structural equation model demonstrating good model fit indicated that STS mediated the association between trauma exposure at work and reports of significant distress and impairment (β = .08, p < .01; 95 % CI = .03, .12). Likewise, STS mediated the association between working with children aged 13 and under and reports of significant distress and impairment (β = .05, p < .05; 95 % CI = .02, .09). Results indicated that the model accounted for 25 % of the variance in significant distress and impairment (R
conclusionsImplications for agencies working with child welfare are provided, including a discussion of addressing STS and significant distress and impairment at the individual and larger agency levels.
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