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KMID : 0614420140420030063
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Mental Health & Social Work
2014 Volume.42 No. 3 p.63 ~ p.90
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The Process of Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress of Child Welfare Social Workers
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Um Young-Sook
Jang Soo-Mi
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Abstract
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The goal of this study was to investigate the Child Welfare Social Worker’s experience in coping with the Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) based on grounded-theory approach. This study analyzed the interviews of 10 Child Welfare Social Workers who have at least 3 years experiences in the agency. 101 concepts, 35 sub-categories, and 13 categories finally were deducted. The results by paradigm showed that the central phenomena was ‘persistently coping with anxiety and pain’ The term of cause-and-effect on the central phenomena was ‘the dreadful field which was unforeseeable’. The term of contexts appeared as ‘losing sense of direction and being indecisive’, ‘being under pressure by the heap of workload’, ‘the lack of the legal position and the administrative support’. The action/interaction strategies for adjusting the central phenomena were ‘avoiding’, ‘confronting reality’, ‘self-care and networking’, and ‘progressing assertively’. The intervening conditions were ‘gaining a sense of mission’ and ‘strengthening by social support’. The results include two styles such as ‘enduring with difficulties’ and ‘maturing’. Making progress from the pain through Jul-Tak was in the core category of this study. On the basis of the results, the practice and policy implications were discussed.
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KEYWORD
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Child Welfare Social Workers, Secondary Traumatic Stress(STS), Coping, Grounded-theory Approach
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