Título: A critical analysis of the child welfare system and attempts to reclaim clinical practice /
Autores: St. Hillaire, Kim
Fecha: 2002
Publicador: McGill University - MCGILL
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Tipo: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Tema: Child welfare -- Canada
Child welfare workers -- Canada
Burn out (Psychology)
Descripción: Stress and burnout have received a great deal of attention in the child welfare field. This has been due to such issues as the high workload, the complexity of the cases, working with resistant and at times violent clients and the negative work environment of the youth protection agency. These factors have a detrimental effect on the worker's personal and professional resources and undermine the healthy functioning of the agency, all of which ultimately affects best practice with clients. One way in which child welfare organizations could make an effort towards reclaiming clinical practice is to engage in training for its workforce. Training can benefit practitioners by improving their skills and knowledge and this can lead to greater job satisfaction. Agency functioning is improved by having a trained workforce as well as social workers who are knowledgeable regarding agency policies, values and models of intervention. Children and families ultimately benefit by working with practitioners who are equipped with the appropriate skills. These benefits for workers, clients and the agency cannot materialize unless barriers are removed and changes within the agency take place in order to support the effective transfer of knowledge and training.
Idioma: en