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Understanding Social Work and Child Welfare: Canadian survey and interviews with child welfare experts

In many ways, child welfare social workers in Canada mirror the simultaneous and complex relationship between emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction discussed in the literature. The findings also suggest that job satisfaction and perceived support may be key to counter-balancing vicarious trauma, burn out and post-traumatic stress.

Author(s): 
Canadian Association of Social Workers
Year of Publication: 
2018
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Resource Type: 
Gray literature
Language: 
English
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Resource Database