Book chapter
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE-BASED GROUP WORK TO PROMOTE COPING AND RESILIENCE AMONG CHILD WELFARE WORKERS
pp.197-219
01 Jan 2019
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Abstract
This chapter draws attention to high rates of secondary traumatic stress and burnout among child welfare workers nationally. The authors address the need for innovative practices and transformative learning experiences to build coping and resilience among child welfare workers to help them effectively manage the emotional labor of child welfare work. In particular, this chapter focuses on the use of outdoor adventure-based group work as a potential promising practice and presents a case study of an outdoor adventure-based program being implemented by the Wilderness School within the Department of Children and Families in the State of Connecticut. This case example demonstrates how adventure therapy may build team cohesion and reduce the effects of secondary traumatic stress and burnout among child welfare workers.
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- Title
- OUTDOOR ADVENTURE-BASED GROUP WORK TO PROMOTE COPING AND RESILIENCE AMONG CHILD WELFARE WORKERS
- Creators
- Christine Lynn Norton - Texas State Univ, Social Work, San Marcos, TX 78666 USAMichael J. Schultz - State Connecticut Dept Children & Families, Hartford, CT USAAmy D. Benton - Texas State Univ, Social Work, San Marcos, TX 78666 USACameron Kiosoglous - US Rowing, Princeton, NJ USACarrie J. Boden - Texas State Univ, Occupat Workforce & Leadership Studies, San Marcos, TX 78666 USA
- Contributors
- T J Carter (Editor)C J Boden (Editor)K Peno (Editor)
- Publication Details
- pp.197-219
- Series
- Adult Learning in Professional Organizational and Community Settings
- Publisher
- Information Age Publishing-Iap; CHARLOTTE
- Number of pages
- 23
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000505274100012
- Other Identifier
- 991021893696404721
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