Social Workers in Animal Shelters: A Strategy Toward Reducing Occupational Stress Among Animal Shelter Workers

Animal shelter workers (ASWs) are at disproportionate risk of moral injury, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burn-out. While there is an emerging body of literature developing on understanding the nuances of these experiences for ASWs, little work has been done on developing strategies to a...

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Autores principales:	Janet Hoy-Gerlach, Mamta Ojha, Phil Arkow
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	animal shelter staff occupational stress veterinary social work compassion fatigue human animal support services Veterinary medicine SF600-1100
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c38a7e7715e04c08a501d6c00f0727342021-11-10T06:17:09ZSocial Workers in Animal Shelters: A Strategy Toward Reducing Occupational Stress Among Animal Shelter Workers2297-176910.3389/fvets.2021.734396https://doaj.org/article/c38a7e7715e04c08a501d6c00f0727342021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2021.734396/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/2297-1769Animal shelter workers (ASWs) are at disproportionate risk of moral injury, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burn-out. While there is an emerging body of literature developing on understanding the nuances of these experiences for ASWs, little work has been done on developing strategies to ameliorate occupational stressors and the negative effects of such for ASWs. Within this paper, occupational risks and protective factors for ASWs are summarized, and the emergence of social work within animal shelter settings as one strategy for helping to ameliorate the occupational stress experienced by ASWs is delineated.Janet Hoy-GerlachMamta OjhaPhil ArkowFrontiers Media S.A.articleanimal shelter staffoccupational stressveterinary social workcompassion fatiguehuman animal support servicesVeterinary medicineSF600-1100ENFrontiers in Veterinary Science, Vol 8 (2021)
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description	Animal shelter workers (ASWs) are at disproportionate risk of moral injury, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burn-out. While there is an emerging body of literature developing on understanding the nuances of these experiences for ASWs, little work has been done on developing strategies to ameliorate occupational stressors and the negative effects of such for ASWs. Within this paper, occupational risks and protective factors for ASWs are summarized, and the emergence of social work within animal shelter settings as one strategy for helping to ameliorate the occupational stress experienced by ASWs is delineated.
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Social Workers in Animal Shelters: A Strategy Toward Reducing Occupational Stress Among Animal Shelter Workers

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