Utmaningen att orka på sikt - En kvalitativ studie om professionellas emotionella påfrestningar och strategier i arbetet med trauma
(2022) SOPA63 20221School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Work related stress, including burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress, often occurs in professionals aspiring to support clients with traumatic experiences. The aim of this study was to examine how professional helpers understand and manage their work with clients who have experienced trauma. Examined issues were what challenges the professionals identified in their work, what strategies used to manage these challenges and support received from their workplace. Qualitative, semi structured interviews were conducted and the respondents were found through targeted sampling, snowball sampling and a two-stage sampling. The result has been analyzed using existing research as well as theories such as Lazarus and Folkman's... (More)
- Work related stress, including burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress, often occurs in professionals aspiring to support clients with traumatic experiences. The aim of this study was to examine how professional helpers understand and manage their work with clients who have experienced trauma. Examined issues were what challenges the professionals identified in their work, what strategies used to manage these challenges and support received from their workplace. Qualitative, semi structured interviews were conducted and the respondents were found through targeted sampling, snowball sampling and a two-stage sampling. The result has been analyzed using existing research as well as theories such as Lazarus and Folkman's theory of coping and Topor's theory of professionality. The findings indicated that professionals could identify emotional strains and work related stress in the work with trauma. The respondents identified over-engagement, stressful dreams, emphatic fatigue, avoidance and fatigue as the main causes of work related stress. To cope with the emotional strains certain strategies were used such as maintaining an emotional distance to the clients experiences, processing challenging work tasks as well as limiting thoughts regarding the client to the workplace. What kind of support the respondents received from their workplace differed. The workplace had an impact on the employees ability to use coping-strategies and the amount of time and space given to use certain strategies also influenced whether well developed strategies could be used. (Less)
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- author
- Karlsson, Frida LU and Lindvall, Matilda LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Work related stress, Coping, Burnout, Compassion fatigue, Secondary traumatic stress, Organizational support
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9086664
- date added to LUP
- 2022-06-13 16:28:03
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abstract = {{Work related stress, including burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress, often occurs in professionals aspiring to support clients with traumatic experiences. The aim of this study was to examine how professional helpers understand and manage their work with clients who have experienced trauma. Examined issues were what challenges the professionals identified in their work, what strategies used to manage these challenges and support received from their workplace. Qualitative, semi structured interviews were conducted and the respondents were found through targeted sampling, snowball sampling and a two-stage sampling. The result has been analyzed using existing research as well as theories such as Lazarus and Folkman's theory of coping and Topor's theory of professionality. The findings indicated that professionals could identify emotional strains and work related stress in the work with trauma. The respondents identified over-engagement, stressful dreams, emphatic fatigue, avoidance and fatigue as the main causes of work related stress. To cope with the emotional strains certain strategies were used such as maintaining an emotional distance to the clients experiences, processing challenging work tasks as well as limiting thoughts regarding the client to the workplace. What kind of support the respondents received from their workplace differed. The workplace had an impact on the employees ability to use coping-strategies and the amount of time and space given to use certain strategies also influenced whether well developed strategies could be used.}},
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language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Utmaningen att orka på sikt - En kvalitativ studie om professionellas emotionella påfrestningar och strategier i arbetet med trauma}},
year = {{2022}},
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