A systematic review of stress among mental health social workers

Article Abstract:

A study focuses on establishing the levels of stress, burnout, coping and more importantly, the factors that ameliorate stress in the workplace for a group of UK mental health professionals. The evidence suggests that social workers experience relatively high levels of both work-related anxiety and trait depression when compared with normative populations and workers in other professions.

Psychological aspects, Social workers, Job stress, Psychiatric personnel, Mental health personnel

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Broadening the vision: Law teaching, social work and civil society

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Global development requires social work to develop a broadened vision but this requires suitable education practice that needs to be developed to support such a broadened vision of the relationship between law and practice for social change. Findings are drawn from a systematic review of knowledge of teaching, learning and assessment of law in social work education.

Analysis, Study and teaching, Social change, Civil society

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Responding to the war with Iraq among social work faculty in USA, UK and Australia

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The response of social worker educators to the Iraq war, in the three countries that initiated war with Iraq, was researched. It was found that most of them had felt that students needed to be educated about the war and had included contents of the war in their courses in different ways such as class discussions and projects.

United States, Australia, Government domestic functions, Science & research, Research, Social policy, Volunteer workers in social service, Social service volunteers, Iraq War, 2003-

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