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Campbell, Caroline.

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Social Workers Professional Peer Relationships: A Phenomenological Exploration.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Social Workers Professional Peer Relationships: A Phenomenological Exploration./
Author:	Campbell, Caroline.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	275 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-11B.
Subject:	Social work. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30427007
ISBN:	9798379506414

Social Workers Professional Peer Relationships: A Phenomenological Exploration.
Campbell, Caroline.

Social Workers Professional Peer Relationships: A Phenomenological Exploration. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 275 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Widener University, 2023.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Conditions of empathy-based distress, such as compassion fatigue, secondary stress disorder, and vicarious trauma, are prevalent among social workers as their work routinely exposes them to the impact and effects of trauma. Social workers have attempted to resolve distress by adopting personal and professional self-care strategies, using supervision and group consultation models, promoting trauma-informed organizational policies, and following an ethical code that requires social workers to practice self-care and act on any impairment to their practice. However, there is limited research on the effectiveness of such interventions to reduce empathy-based distress, with a lack of clarity on which types of self-care or organizational practices could mitigate the distress or mechanisms to promote thriving beyond managing stress and adversity. Social support is an important component in buffering workplace distress. There is limited literature on how professional peer relationships could provide social support and the dynamics of interactions in the workplace, particularly for social workers, and how these lived experiences could influence stress and thriving in the profession. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of professional peer relationships of social workers and how these relationships influence stress and professional resilience/well-being. The researcher utilized a qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological approach to conduct semi-structured interviews with 17 social workers across various sectors in the Greater Philadelphia area. These interviews elicited thick and rich descriptions of peer relationships among social workers. Thematic analysis of interview data generated descriptions of relational care experiences and their influence on experiences of stress and well-being. Eight themes emerged from the data, which included (1) characteristics of professional peer relationships, (2) relationship dynamics, (3) social work values and ethics, (4) tensions of the profession, (5) organizational influences, (6) pandemic reflections, (7) ways to manage distress and (8) strategies for professional resilience. Discussion and implications are offered along with recommendations for social work practice, teaching, policy, and future research that include the promotion of informal strategies and formal actions on the part of organizations to support peer professional relationships as an important structure in the workplace that promotes professional resilience and buffers stress.

ISBN: 9798379506414Subjects--Topical Terms:

644197
Social work.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Empathy based distress

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