The post of today consists in choosing a news related to my career… The thing is, that I couldn’t found a news on internet that touched a specific topic in psychology, that be related of what psychologist do in the different areas of this discipline. But I could found a theme that I think is very important too, and has to do with mental health of people who work with vulnerable children, in this case: Social Workers. The news is based on an investigation, and informs us about the conditions that Social Workers do their jobs and the environment that these persons are dealing in a difficult context to require them to make decisions about the protection of the children. Here I give you a summary of the news, but if you are interested you can also go to the link that is above this post.
A recent study of the British Association of Social Workers survey of 1.390 social workers and found that 70 % of these people doesn’t feel able to protect a child because of the pressure that this job causes. Almost 95% admit to take decisions about the safety of the child with insufficient information, increasing the danger of abuse and neglect in the children who depends of them.
You can read the news in: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/06/overworked-social-workers-children-risk
That subject more interesting, I think I will read the news.
ReplyDeleteFor me is very important to think about the health of those working with people.