Social Workers' Experience of Distress--Moving Towards Change?

Journal Article Social Workers' Experience of Distress—Moving Towards Change? Get access MARTIN SMITH, MARTIN SMITH Martin Smith is the Senior Social Work Practitioner for the Buckinghamshire Emergency Duty Team, having previously been a senior practitioner in a mental health team in Buckinghamshire. He is particularly interested in how social workers are affected by stress and ways in which organizational structures can be of help when dealing with stressful experiences. Correspondence to Martin Smith (Emergency Duty Team), The Katharine Knapp House, Stretton Close, Tylers Green, High Wycombe Bucks, HP10 8EW, UK. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JEAN NURSTEN JEAN NURSTEN Jean Nursten is Visiting Professor in Social Work at the University of Reading, having formerly been a university teacher at the University of Bradford and at the London School of Economics. Her interest in stress arose during time at the Family Help Unit in Hungerford following the shootings in 1987. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 28, Issue 3, June 1998, Pages 351–368, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjsw.a011344 Published: 01 June 1998 Article history Accepted: 01 January 1997 Published: 01 June 1998