Finding Joy in Social Work II: Intrapersonal Sources.
Despite the social work profession's strengths orientation, research on its workforce tends to focus on problems (for example, depression, problem drinking, compassion fatigue, burn-out). In contrast, this study explored ways in which social workers find joy in their work. The authors used an apprec...
| Publicado en: | Social Work Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 213 - 222 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2014
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