Description: US study of 192 child welfare professionals. Investigates the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE's), resilience, and work environment and professional quality of life including compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.
What's the evidence base for this resource: Academic research article published in peer reviewed journal.
Potential uses and limitations: Two significant findings:
1- Workers who reported more ACE's scored higher on Compassion Satisfaction and lower on Burnout.
This counters the 'intuitive' claim that more ACE's would lead to higher levels of burnout.
2- "Controlling leadership style" and low "Resilience" were the factors most correlated with higher burnout.
"We postulate that supervisors who are authoritative, rather than authoritarian, may be the most effective at providing the type of support that will produce the best outcomes for their employees"
Where it comes from: Published in Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 57, October 2015, Pages 141-148.
Link to abstract: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740915300335
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Management and Supervision