ABSTRACT

Many adolescents in residential care have a history of traumatization, often with consequences on regulating emotions, thoughts, behaviors, as well as on establishing healthy relationships. Such evidence-based knowledge has paved the way for various trauma-informed models of care that emphasize the adolescents’ need to be other-regulated through caring adults. Being a “regulating other” requires the ability of self-regulation, which may be challenging for staff faced with intense emotional and behavioral expressions from the adolescents. In this qualitative study, fifteen social workers at a residential care unit for adolescents in Norway were individually interviewed on themes addressing what they perceived as necessary prerequisites for maintaining a regulated state in their context of work. Descriptions were analyzed in accordance with principles for thematic analysis. The informants regarded self-reflection and self-acceptance as essential prerequisites for self-regulation. Other salient themes were associated with having a regulating work environment and a trustworthy theoretical model to be guided by. These findings are important for institutions involved in offering competence building in residential care units and academic institutions that educate social workers, as to include systematic training in self-reflection and self-acceptance skills, to strengthen the ability to be a mature regulating other.

摘要

许多寄宿照料的青少年都有创伤史，通常会对调节情绪、思想、行为以及建立健康关系产生影响。这种以证据为基础的知识为各种创伤知情护理模式铺平了道路，这些模式强调青少年需要通过照顾成年人而受到其他人的调节。作为一个“调节他人”需要自我调节的能力，这对于面临青少年强烈情绪和行为表达的员工来说可能具有挑战性。在这项定性研究中，对挪威青少年寄宿护理单位的 15 名社会工作者进行了单独访谈，主题是他们认为在工作环境中维持规范状态的必要先决条件。根据专题分析的原则对描述进行分析。被调查者认为自我反省和自我接纳是自我调节的必要前提。其他突出主题与具有规范的工作环境和可信赖的理论模型相关。这些发现对于参与提供能力建设的机构和教育社会工作者的学术机构非常重要，包括系统的自我反思和自我接纳技能培训，以加强成为成熟的监管他人的能力。其他突出主题与具有规范的工作环境和可信赖的理论模型相关。这些发现对于参与提供能力建设的机构和教育社会工作者的学术机构非常重要，包括系统的自我反思和自我接纳技能培训，以加强成为成熟的监管他人的能力。其他突出主题与具有规范的工作环境和可信赖的理论模型相关。这些发现对于参与提供能力建设的机构和教育社会工作者的学术机构非常重要，包括系统的自我反思和自我接纳技能培训，以加强成为成熟的监管他人的能力。