Social workers often deal with trauma. What happens when it gets to be too much? [northjersey.com]

Alicia Doktor 8/31/184:00 AM

New Jersey's social workers help people with some of the worst situations, on some of their worst days.

Maybe none more so than those in child protective services, who see families ripped apart by circumstances such as drugs and domestic violence. But what happens when it gets to be too much for the helpers?

While resources exist for over-stressed and overwhelmed child protective service workers, they are not always readily available, experts say. In the best of circumstances, peer-to-peer counseling and hotlines are provided, offering help from people who know best the difficulties of the job.

[For more on this story by Rodrigo Torrejon, go to https://www.northjersey.com/st...een-kane/1133700002/]

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Vladimir TolskiyMember

If only the frustration of the social workers could be translated into policy changes.

I strongly believe that commonly discussed problems that spring up during peer support meetings need to be taken to the policy makers.

Otherwise it feels like elite overlords are throwing one bunch of traumatized underpaid people to help another bunch of traumatized underpaid people.

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