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The Social Dimension of Stress: Experimental Manipulations of Social Support and Social Identity in the Trier Social Stress Test
Published on: November 19, 2015
Stress management consultation to Israeli social workers during the Gulf War
J G Cwikel1, L Kacen, V Slonim-Nevo
1Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Abstract:
Social workers operating under emergency conditions may feel overwhelmed and incapacitated by their own stress reactions. During the Gulf War, social work faculty in Israel acted as consultants to help hospital social workers manage stress and regain professional efficacy. The Stress Management Consultation (SMC) was a short-term group intervention designed to enable social workers to work through their stress reactions and to model a method the workers could use with their own target populations. Qualitative feedback from both participants and administrators indicated that the SMC model was effective and could be applicable to a large range of settings and treatment populations.
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