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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2015.15.11.115

Determinants of Secondary Traumatic Stress among Public Social Welfare Specialists  

Yang, Jung-Bin (남서울대학교 노인복지학과)
Kim, Doe-Yoon (충남지역사회정신건강증진센터)
Ryu, Soon-Ok (충남지역사회정신건강증진센터)
Kim, Ja-Young (한국여성인권진흥원)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.15, no.11, 2015 , pp. 115-125 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was to identify major risk factors associated with secondary traumatic stress in a sample of 654 public social welfare specialists. Findings indicated that 69.0% of the subjects experienced secondary traumatic stress, and 36.9% of them were in a high-risk group. Multiple regression analysis showed that the risk of the secondary traumatic stress was associated with gender, work hours, physical violence and threats from clients, coping strategies, and vocational self-efficacy. Based on these results, several interventions for preventing the incidence of secondary traumatic stress among public social welfare specialists are suggested as the follows: construction of secure job environment, development of educational programs for improving vocational self-efficacy and coping skills, and implementation of mental health screening system on a regular basis to prevent the outbreak of mental disease among the workers.
Keywords
Secondary Traumatic Stress; Client Violence; Coping Strategies; Vocational Self-Efficacy;
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