University of Kansas News
Researchers from KU’s School of Social Welfare implemented an intervention known as Resilience Alliance to child welfare caseworkers from across the state. The intervention was delivered across 12 weeks to help these professionals recognize secondary traumatic stress, or STS, develop strategies to deal with its effects and build resilience skills to use in their everyday work. Results showed the intervention lowered secondary traumatic stress and boosted resilience while being delivered remotely and in a shorter time than previous versions.