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Multi-Family Groups for Multi-Stressed Families: Initial Outcomes and Future Implications
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Jackson, Jerrold M. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Purpose: To examine the influence of caregiver stress on attendance among urban families involved in a multiple family group (MFG) intervention, as well as pre/post changes in childhood behavioral difficulties, caregiver stress, caregiver depressive symptoms, caregiver coping by substance use, and caregiver motivation to change. Methods:…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Caregivers, Urban Population, Group Therapy
The Compassion Fatigue Scale: Its Use with Social Workers Following Urban Disaster
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Adams, Richard E.; Figley, Charles R.; Boscarino, Joseph A. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2008
Objective: The present study has two goals: to assess the difference between secondary trauma and job burnout and to examine the utility of secondary trauma in predicting psychological distress. Method: The data come from a survey of social workers (N = 236) living in New York City 20 months following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the…
Descriptors: Fatigue (Biology), Terrorism, Burnout, At Risk Persons
Effects of Culturally Relevant Psychoeducation for Korean American Families of Persons with Chronic Mental Illness
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Shin, Sun-Kyung – Research on Social Work Practice, 2004
This study is to identify culturally relevant treatment methods and to assess the effects of family psychoeducational intervention for Korean Americans who had a family member with mental illness. 48 Korean Americans with children with mental illness were randomly assigned to either an experimental group program that provided culturally sensitive…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Intervention, Mental Disorders, Coping