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Is protecting children bad for your health?

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Prof. D M B Hall
Storrs House Farm, Storrs Lane, Sheffield S6 6GY, UK; d.hall@sheffield.ac.uk

Keywords: child protection; stress; burnout; complaints

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In the last few years a series of child abuse tragedies and fiercely contested murder trials has put paediatricians under the spotlight as never before. There is a growing reluctance among consultants and trainees to get involved in child protection. The attempt by Bennett and colleagues¹ to measure and analyse the stress and burnout among child protection professionals in Canada is, therefore, very timely—but inevitably it also poses a number of further questions. Can slippery concepts like stress and burnout be reliably defined in operational terms? Is child protection different from other healthcare tasks and if so, does it affect different disciplines in different ways? Are there differences between countries and if so, do these relate to their cultural attitudes or child protection systems? Do stress and burnout affect people in other walks of life? And, most important, what are the risk factors for burnout and what might be . . . [Full text of this article]

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Burnout, psychological morbidity, job satisfaction, and stress: a survey of Canadian hospital based child protection professionals

S Bennett, A Plint, and T J Clifford
Arch. Dis. Child. 2005 90: 1112-1116. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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