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Lived Experiences of Social Workers: Vicarious Trauma and its Impact on Mental and Emotional Well-Being, Self-Care, and Burnout
Full text linkThe problem of practice for this research study was to look at social workers who are exposed to vicarious trauma and how it impacts their mental and emotional well-being and self-care engagement. The data gathered from this research will hopefully generate added information on how and why social workers are burning out faster (within 7-10 years) than earlier generations (Cummings, 2021, Hricova, 2020; Liu, 2023). Previous studies have revealed that there has been little research on the impact of vicarious trauma on social workers (Butler, 2017; Cummings, 2021; Lewis, 2019; Ruiz-Fernandez, 2021). A mixed-methods methodology was used (Burkholder, 2020; Creswell, 2018), using the Professional Quality of Life Survey, Version 5 (ProQOL 5) to obtain descriptive quantitative data and a researcher-designed in-depth open-ended semi-structured interview to obtain qualitative data. To add to the data collection, the author asked participants to submit a photograph that reminded or connected the participants to their client(s), past or present (Neubauer, 2019; Williamson et.al, 2021). The focus of the study was on social workers\u27 thoughts, feelings, and transcendental (psychological) meanings within lived experiences. The purpose was to answer the overarching research question: What are the lived experiences of social workers who experience vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout, and what impact does that have on their emotional and mental well-being? The researcher found that participants across the world all had similar qualities, such as personal characteristics ethical guiding principles and intrinsic altruism when working with clients who have experienced immense suffering, violence, and trauma, and the participants themselves witnessed and held that suffering
A “How-To” Manual for Doing Standard Statistics in R
Full text linkThis “How To….” Manual is intended to assist the new user in implementing standard statistical methods, both parametric and non-parametric, using R statistical software. Its focus is on R implementation, not statistical theory. It includes the R commands, with examples, for the following: proportion tests, t-tests, ANOVA, variance tests, several correlation measures and regression models, Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon tests, Kruskal-Wallis tests, chi-squared tests, multiple pairwise comparisons and effect sizes. Basic graphical methods are also illustrated.
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