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Resilience and Burnout in Child Protection Social Work: Individual and Organisational Themes from a Systematic Literature Review

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McFadden, Paula, Campbell, Anne, Taylor, Brian·2015·British Journal of Social Work

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Child protection social work is acknowledged as a very stressful occupation, with high turnover and poor retention of staff being a major concern. This paper highlights themes that emerged from findings of sixty-five articles that were included as part of a systematic literature review. The review focused on the evaluation of research findings, which considered individual and organisational factors associated with resilience or burnout in child protection social work staff. The results identified a range of individual and organisational themes for staff in child protection social work. Nine themes were identified in total. These are categorised under ‘Individual’ and ‘Organisational’ themes. Themes categorised as individual included personal history of maltreatment, training and preparation for child welfare, coping, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction. Those classified as organisational included workload, social support and supervision, organisational culture and climate, organisational and professional commitment, and job satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The range of factors is discussed with recommendations and areas for future research are highlighted.

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Authors: McFadden, P., Campbell, A., & Taylor, B.
Affiliations: University of Ulster (GB)
Queen's University Belfast (GB)
Corresponding author: McFadden, Paula
ORCID: McFadden, Paula
Campbell, Anne
Taylor, Brian
Venue: British Journal of Social Work
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published: 2014-02-26
Volume: 45
Issue: 5
Pages: 1546-1563
ISSN: 0045-3102 (ISSN-L)
1468-263X
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bct210
OpenAlex: W2138865191
Cited by: 499
References: 66
Citations by year: 2026: 44 · 2025: 69 · 2024: 67 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 39 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 60 · 2018: 44 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 8
FWCI: 14.47
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Locations: The British Journal of Social Work (publishedVersion)
Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Public Administration › Social Work Education and Practice
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
Keywords: child protection social work, resilience, burnout, occupational stress, employee turnover, employee retention, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, coping, workload, social support, supervision, organizational culture, job satisfaction, professional commitment

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