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How do you handle hearing the stories from a young child and woman on being abused?

I am junior in the business of sports school and i am wondering if I will be able to handle the stories coming from my clients. #work #social #sociology #worker

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Thank you comment icon Stacia - Is this a question about being a social worker? It doesn't actually say that anywhere in your question, but I'm guessing that's the topic based on the topics you chose. If so, maybe you should mention that in the body of your question! (You can edit the question by going to your question and clicking "edit" underneath it). Jared Chung, Admin
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Jared’s Answer, CareerVillage.org Team

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I am not a social worker, so I will defer to other social workers on CareerVillage to provide personal accounts. However, I wanted to share with you this study conducted by the National Association of Social Workers which discussed how social workers manage their own stress. Social work is a stressful career, because of the emotional challenges people face, but also because of the day-to-day lifestyle requirements of the career. Here's a link to the study: http://workforce.socialworkers.org/whatsnew/stress.pdf


To give you the short answer (paraphrased from this survey): the top three most common stress management tactics are exercise, meditation, and therapy.

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Sikawayi’s Answer

Hello Stacia, this is a great question. Yes, it is hard a lot of times listing to how much pain and suffering they have been through with their children. you have worked very hard to find the mother of three a place that will take her and all of her children and help her find work. Part of the counseling program is we have to check on the family to make sure there doing ok. I get there and her boyfriend who beat them up the first time, the mother says he stop drinking and he apologized to everybody so she said he could stay. I reminded her that she could not have a man living with her she said he wasn't, and I wasn't able to do any more than that. On my next visit the whole family was gone. Best of luck
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