Xoán M Lombardero Posada

Complutense University of Madrid | UCM

The indirect exposure to patients’ traumatic experiences may generate contrasting reactions in helping professionals, such as vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience. Theoretical models predict that job stressors facilitate vicarious trauma and reduce vicarious resilience and that personal resources may mediate this relationship. However, there i...

Many states' social policies have implemented austerity and cuts in the resources dedicated to social services and privatisation in providing these services, all of which have contributed to practitioners' precariousness in this sector. This study carried out with 448 Spanish social workers assessed job demands, organisational and personal resource...

Few studies have analyzed the existence of homogeneous groups (profiles) in burnout and engagement among professionals, and none in social workers. This study with 448 social workers from Spain mainly examined their profiles in burnout and engagement and the characteristics of each profile in relevant job-related variables. Cluster analyses yielded...

The working conditions in which many social workers practice their profession make it very likely that they will experience high strain and burnout and low engagement. Previous research has identified different risk and protective factors of burnout and engagement. This article attempts to: (i) analyse the relationship of burnout and engagement wit...

As a result of secondary exposure to traumatic material, social workers may experience vicarious trauma. However, the analysis of this variable among social workers is scarce. The Vicarious Trauma Scale (VTS) is a brief instrument designed to measure the stress consequence of shared trauma. This study aims to examine the psychometrics of the VTS in...

This study aimed to examine some components of job satisfaction, work meaningfulness, and job dissatisfaction in social workers from governmental (GO), private (PO), and third sector (TSO) organisations. The study analysed the responses provided by 35 Spanish social workers concerning various work components that generate satisfaction, meaningfulne...

This study aimed to examine some components of job satisfaction, work meaningfulness, and job dissatisfaction in social workers from governmental (GO), private (PO), and third sector (TSO) organisations. The study analysed the responses provided by 35 Spanish social workers concerning various work components that generate satisfaction, meaningfulne...

As a reaction to specific job stressors, social workers can experience job burnout. The job demands-resources theory posits that personal characteristics would mediate the influence of job stressors on either burnout or engagement. Within this framework, this cross-sectional research aimed to analyze the relationships between work–family interferen...

The treatment of the mentally ill people is a challenge across the world, and different professionals, such as doctors, social workers, psychologists, or nurses, take care of this group. Nonetheless, mental health is not a vocational sector preferred by students and professionals of many of these careers. Research has proposed that professional pre...

Due to the indirect exposure to traumatic realities, social workers may experience emotional responses of vicarious traumatisation or vicarious resilience. Previous research indicated that risk factors (workload and trauma caseload) provoke vicarious traumatisation and that protection factors (recovery experiences and organisational support) can bu...

Esta comunicación tiene como objeto revisar y presentar algunas de las líneas básicas para el desarrollo de un programa educativo que formule un cambio de valores que rebase la idea de lucro y progreso individual para abordar la desigualdad, la justicia social y la sostenibilidad humana y ambiental en la preparación al actual mercado de trabajo. Se...

Desde su origen, el trabajo social se ha querido caracterizar por la intervención política y la formulación de propuestas de política social. Siendo esta formulación consensual, existen numerosas lagunas y diferentes interpretaciones acerca de lo que fue y como es definida en la actualidad la práctica política dentro de la profesión. En este trabaj...

Resumen conocida y tratada por la literatura y la profesión, el estudio de la actuación de la Fedaas en el proceso de elaboración y aprobación parlamentaria de la constitución española de 1978 se ha centrado en responder qué se hizo. Basándose en material publicado y en nuevas aportaciones, esta comunicación pretende indagar en cómo tuvo lugar esa...