What does this research mean for the field?

Expanding paid time-off (PTO) and providing protected worktime for telehealth appointments are promising organizational interventions to enhance adaptive coping and reduce reliance on maladaptive strategies among addiction treatment providers. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies among addiction treatment providers and identify organizational interventions that can support employee coping and mitigate turnover.

September 5, 2026Journal of Social Service Research

Stress Coping Strategies Among Addiction Treatment Providers: Implications for Organizational Health Promotion Interventions

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ESElisabeth Stelson LSLauren L. Sabbath-Clayton ESErika L. Sabbath

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Qualitative study uncovers occupational stressors and coping barriers among addiction treatment providers, suggesting targeted paid time-off and telehealth benefits could reduce workforce turnover.

Key Points

To examine adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies among addiction treatment providers and identify organizational interventions that can support employee coping and mitigate turnover.
Purposively recruited N = 49 addiction treatment providers across 15 nonprofit residential facilities for semi-structured interviews and focus groups.
Double-coded transcripts with an inter-coder reliability kappa of 0.82 and identified qualitative themes regarding working conditions, occupational stressors, and coping strategies.
Providers described how personal addiction recovery histories compounded occupational stressors, while barriers to taking paid time-off contributed to maladaptive coping strategies such as smoking.
Identified two key organizational interventions: providing additional paid time-off incentives for smoking cessation and establishing protected, paid work hours for telehealth appointments to reduce staff turnover.

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Stelson et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9bd4726b95aff0620ec239 https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2026.2726855

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September 5, 2026Journal of Social Service Research

Stress Coping Strategies Among Addiction Treatment Providers: Implications for Organizational Health Promotion Interventions

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Authors

ESElisabeth Stelson LSLauren L. Sabbath-Clayton ESErika L. Sabbath

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Overview

Qualitative study uncovers occupational stressors and coping barriers among addiction treatment providers, suggesting targeted paid time-off and telehealth benefits could reduce workforce turnover.

Key Points

To examine adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies among addiction treatment providers and identify organizational interventions that can support employee coping and mitigate turnover.
Purposively recruited N = 49 addiction treatment providers across 15 nonprofit residential facilities for semi-structured interviews and focus groups.
Double-coded transcripts with an inter-coder reliability kappa of 0.82 and identified qualitative themes regarding working conditions, occupational stressors, and coping strategies.
Providers described how personal addiction recovery histories compounded occupational stressors, while barriers to taking paid time-off contributed to maladaptive coping strategies such as smoking.
Identified two key organizational interventions: providing additional paid time-off incentives for smoking cessation and establishing protected, paid work hours for telehealth appointments to reduce staff turnover.

Cite This Study

Stelson et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9bd4726b95aff0620ec239 https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2026.2726855

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