‘Professional Inefficacy is the Exact Opposite of the Passionate Social Worker’: Discursive Analysis of Neoliberalism within the Writing on Self-care in Social Work

IF 2.3 Q1 SOCIAL WORK

Journal of Progressive Human Services Pub Date : 2020-07-15 DOI:10.1080/10428232.2020.1790715

H. Stuart

引用次数: 11

Abstract

ABSTRACT Social work experiences notable rates of burnout and subsequent attrition. In the social work academic and practice-based literature, self-care strategies are proposed as a means of mitigating the effects of workplace stress and feelings of emotional exhaustion. However, the neoliberal self-care discourse intended to alleviate feelings of distress may in fact be exacerbating professional burnout. Yet discourse analysis allows for a critical examination of neoliberalism’s discourse of social worker self-care.

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“职业无能与热情的社会工作者恰恰相反”——社会工作自我关怀写作中的新自由主义探析

摘要社会工作经历了显著的倦怠率和随后的流失率。在以社会工作、学术和实践为基础的文献中，提出了自我护理策略，作为减轻工作压力和情绪衰竭影响的一种手段。然而，旨在缓解痛苦感的新自由主义自我护理话语实际上可能加剧了职业倦怠。然而，话语分析允许对新自由主义关于社会工作者自我照顾的话语进行批判性的审视。

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Journal of Progressive Human Services SOCIAL WORK-

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3.20

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： The only journal of its kind in the United States, the Journal of Progressive Human Services covers political, social, personal, and professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective. The journal stimulates debate about major social issues and contributes to the development of the analytical tools needed for building a caring society based on equality and justice. The journal"s contributors examine oppressed and vulnerable groups, struggles by workers and clients on the job and in the community, dilemmas of practice in conservative contexts, and strategies for ending racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, and discrimination of persons who are disabled and psychologically distressed.