Secondary traumatic stress in social workers<p>Sosyal hizmet uzmanlarında ikincil travmatik stres

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Social worker, secondary traumatic stress, interaction, Sosyal hizmet uzmanı (sosyal çalışmacı), ikincil travmatik stress, etkileşim

Abstract

Social workers work with children, with disabilities, with the elderly, with families. In short, with all client systems in the individuals and groups with harmed capacities to cope with the life challenges, in hospitals, community mental health centers, prisons, justice palaces and various social service organizations.Such a study requires that the vulnerable individual, the family and the groups to listen to the  life events that cause trauma, to observe the life of the application system, to ask for sadness witness and help, and all these are inevitably absorbed by social workers.As a result of the interaction with the client system and the issue emerge secondary traumatic stress, which represents a similar pattern to posttraumatic stress disorder.Secondary traumatic stress; is described as traumatization associated with emotions and behaviors that arise as a result of learn client’s trauma knowledge and want to help clients who have suffered trauma experience or life difficulties. The purpose of this study is to examine the secondary traumatic stresses and dimensions in the context of the interaction of the social worker client system with the social work perspective on the factors that are effective in the emergence of secondary traumatic stress.

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Sosyal hizmet uzmanlarıyaşamsal zorluklarla baş etme kapasiteleri zarar görmüş birey ve gruplar ile hastanelerde, toplum ruh sağlığı merkezlerinde, ceza evlerinde, adalet saraylarında ve çeşitli sosyal hizmet kuruluşlarında çocuklarla, engellilerle, yaşlılarla, ailelerle kısacası tüm müracaatçı sistemleri ile çalışmaktadırlar. Böyle bir çalışma savunmasız durumda bulunan birey, aile ve grupların karşılaştıkları travmaya neden olan yaşam olaylarının dinlenmesini, müracaatı sisteminin yaşamını gözlemlemeyi, üzüntüye tanıklığı ve yardım etme istencini gerektirir ve bütün bunlar sosyal hizmet uzmanları tarafından kaçınılmaz bir biçimde absorbe edilmektedir.Müracaatçı sistemi ve sorun ile etkileşim neticesinde travma sonrası stres bozukluğu’na benzer bir yapıyı temsil eden ikincil travmatik stres ortaya çıkmaktadır. İkincil travmatik stres; travma öyküsü bulunan ya da yaşadığı yaşam zorlukları sebebi ile acı çeken müracaatçıların bilgisine hakim olma ve onlara yardım etmeyi istemenin sonucunda ortaya çıkan duygularla ve davranışlarla ilişkili travmatizasyon olarak açıklanmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı sosyal hizmet uzmanı müracaatçı sisteminin etkileşimi bağlamında, ikincil travmatik stres ve boyutlarını, ikincil travmatik stresin ortaya çıkmasında etkili olan faktörleri sosyal hizmet perspektifi ile incelemektir.

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Author Biographies

Esra Çalık Var, Yıldırım Beyazıt University

Assist.Dr. Yildirim Beyazit University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Social Work

Ayşin Çetinkaya Büyükbodur

The Stundent, Yildirim Beyazit University, Institute of Health Sciences ,  Clinical  Oriented of social work 

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Secondary traumatic stress in social workers-Sosyal hizmet uzmanlarında ikincil travmatik stres

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Çalık Var, E., & Büyükbodur, A. Çetinkaya. (2017). Secondary traumatic stress in social workers&lt;p&gt;Sosyal hizmet uzmanlarında ikincil travmatik stres. Journal of Human Sciences, 14(4), 3676–3689. Retrieved from https://j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/4890

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