2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Secondary Traumatic Stress in Care Workers and Case Managers Working in Welfare Facilities.
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17530434
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social welfare and social work studies
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| Research Institution | Japan College of Social Work |
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Principal Investigator |
FUJIOKA Takashi Japan College of Social Work, Department of Social Work, Professor, 社会福祉学部, 教授 (30199301)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2006
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| Keywords | Secondary Traumatic Stress / Burnout / Compassion Fatigue / Dissociation / Third Traumatic Stress / Social Workers / Family Burnout / Care Workers |
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| Research Abstract |
Social workers, care workers and case managers working in welfare facilities and agents have a wide range of stresses in performing their duty. Specifically, when they concern and support the clients who had severe traumatic experiences, there is possibility that care workers and case managers and social workers themselves have to confront their own trauma.
The specialty of the helpers, or the building of sympathy and relationship with clients, increasingly means placing them in the process of extending to the situation of burnout.
The helpers and social workers in two welfare facilities were attended the projects on the self check lists about the compassion fatigue, burnout and compassion satisfaction created by Figley, C. et al..
As a result, compassion fatigue showed high numerical value earlier than the burnout standard, and it was suggested that this check lists were very effective as the prevention of burnout.
Furthermore, on the basis of these results, and some points of view for th
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e prevention of burnout and compassion fatigue were shown as follows. 1.About correspondence after the question paper enforcement. ( 1 )Consideration on enforcing a question paper. (2)About the question paper use of institution or facility manager. (3)Self-awareness of staffs in a institution, an agent and a facility. 2. Treatments and Measures for compassion fatigue. (1) Support to traumatic stress of a family of a helper or a worker. "The prevention of Third Traumatic Stress." (2) Defense to "Family Burnout" of a helper or a worker. (3) Construction of relations work with everyday life. (1)Compassion fatigue, burnout which can happen in relationship with a user and a client. (2)An addiction action or behavior of a helper as a stress reaction. (3)Strategies for support to a helper and a social worker. (4) Treatments for wound of a helper. Necessity of improvement of support method or technology. (5) Treatments and Measures to dissociation. Cutting apart of work and the private life. Intentional dissociation. Less
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Research Products
(2 results)
