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First, do no harm to self: Perspectives around trauma-informed practice and secondary traumatic stress among rural child protective services workers
Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody & Child Development ( IF 0.7 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-15 , DOI: 10.1080/15379418.2019.1687061
Jerel M. Ezell 1
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Abstract

Existing research on child welfare removals has not fully contextualized the incipient trauma experienced by children during the removal process and has neglected ancillary impacts on intervening child welfare workers and intricate procedural challenges in rural environments. Applying a symbolic interactionist framework, this work presents a pilot case study consisting of semi-structured interviews with workers at a rural Child Protective Services agency who piloted a trauma-informed practice intervention and a program addressing workers’ secondary traumatic stress (STS). Results demonstrate that respondents generally felt that trauma-informed practice yielded fruit in reducing trauma/mental distress experienced by clients and improving recidivism/placement outcomes. Key intervention implementation barriers included sparse local resources for mental health referrals, broad community-level socioeconomic barriers, inconsistent engagement from state and local government stakeholders, and organizational stressors. Additionally, respondents indicated that STS was substantially impacting their professional and domestic lives, noting ways the intervention helped them begin to purposefully address the impacts of their trauma exposures. Collectively, findings from this case study highlight the interwoven psychosocial and system-level challenges facing child welfare workers and the ways in which trauma-informed practice may clarify and mitigate these obstacles, providing direction for further research in this space.



中文翻译:

首先,不要伤害自己:关于农村儿童保护服务工作者的创伤知情实践和继发性创伤应激的观点

摘要

现有关于儿童福利搬迁的研究并未充分考虑儿童在搬迁过程中所经历的早期创伤,并且忽视了对干预儿童福利工作者的辅助影响以及农村环境中错综复杂的程序挑战。应用符号互动框架,这项工作提出了一个试点案例研究,包括对农村儿童保护服务机构工作人员的半结构化访谈,该机构试点了创伤知情实践干预和解决工人继发性创伤压力 (STS) 的计划。结果表明,受访者普遍认为创伤知情实践在减少客户经历的创伤/精神痛苦和改善累犯/安置结果方面取得了成果。主要的干预实施障碍包括用于心理健康转诊的当地资源稀少、社区层面广泛的社会经济障碍、州和地方政府利益相关者的参与不一致以及组织压力源。此外,受访者表示 STS 对他们的职业和家庭生活产生了重大影响,并指出干预措施如何帮助他们开始有目的地解决他们的创伤暴露的影响。总的来说,本案例研究的结果突出了儿童福利工作者面临的社会心理和系统层面相互交织的挑战,以及创伤知情实践可以澄清和减轻这些障碍的方式,为该领域的进一步研究提供了方向。州和地方政府利益相关者以及组织压力源的参与不一致。此外,受访者表示 STS 对他们的职业和家庭生活产生了重大影响,并指出干预措施如何帮助他们开始有目的地解决他们的创伤暴露的影响。总的来说,本案例研究的结果突出了儿童福利工作者面临的社会心理和系统层面相互交织的挑战,以及创伤知情实践可以澄清和减轻这些障碍的方式,为该领域的进一步研究提供了方向。州和地方政府利益相关者以及组织压力源的参与不一致。此外,受访者表示 STS 对他们的职业和家庭生活产生了重大影响,并指出干预措施如何帮助他们开始有目的地解决他们的创伤暴露的影响。总的来说,本案例研究的结果突出了儿童福利工作者面临的社会心理和系统层面相互交织的挑战,以及创伤知情实践可以澄清和减轻这些障碍的方式,为该领域的进一步研究提供了方向。注意到干预措施如何帮助他们开始有目的地解决他们的创伤暴露的影响。总的来说,本案例研究的结果突出了儿童福利工作者面临的社会心理和系统层面相互交织的挑战,以及创伤知情实践可以澄清和减轻这些障碍的方式,为该领域的进一步研究提供了方向。注意到干预措施如何帮助他们开始有目的地解决他们的创伤暴露的影响。总的来说,本案例研究的结果突出了儿童福利工作者面临的社会心理和系统层面相互交织的挑战,以及创伤知情实践可以澄清和减轻这些障碍的方式,为该领域的进一步研究提供了方向。

更新日期:2019-11-15
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