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Office Stress Expert: West Virginia Social Workers Risking Burnout

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Monday, August 8, 2011   

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - People working in the helping professions - counseling, social work, health care - can burn out. However, knowing that makes it easier to address, according to the assistant dean for career services at the University of West Virginia Law School.

Jennifer Powell is both an attorney and a licensed social worker. She says it is most important to recognize that sometimes those in professions such as social work can find their job overwhelming.

"It's the end result of unrelenting stress. It's not easy work, the pay isn't great and the enormous caseloads tend to make many helping professionals feel burnout."

Powell will be talking about the burnout issue with social workers at a conference in Morgantown starting Aug. 25. The conference is sponsored by the West Virginia chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.

Powell says one thing bosses and others can do is give credit when credit is due.

"One thing I see over and over again is lack of attention or recognition - people often not receiving it. That is the kind of relatively simple step managers need to recognize."

She says professionals such as councilors and police who work with people suffering serious trauma can find themselves affected by that trauma.

"With secondary traumatic stress, the helpers themselves begin to be affected by work that puts them in close contact with people who have been traumatized."

More information about the conference is available at http://www.naswwv.org/.




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