• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.3162-3171
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• 2015

This study was aimed to investigate the relation between codependency and mental health and to get a idea dealing with social worker's codependency for their healthy and professional caring, which is an important factor between social worker and client in social work practice. The subjects of this study consisted of 290 social workers working in social welfare facilities of Gangwon-do. The data were collected through self-reported questionnaires from Jun. to Oct., 2013. Results indicated that codependency showed over 50% of social workers were moderate-severe level and there were the significant correlation between codependency and mental health. Implications of findings of this study were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.311-321
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• 2013

This study is a qualitative research whose purpose was to analyze the experiences of training stress that trainees of mental health social worker were undergoing from the perspective of those trainees, ultimately providing them with a more effective way of clinical education. For this purpose, the study made a survey of 9 trainees who were getting through the training course of mental health social work provided by a relevant training agency. Data collection were focus group-based and conducted 1 to 2 times over about 2 hours. This researcher analyzed statements from the participants and, out of them, 85 were determined as meaningful. From these meaningful responses, the researcher constructed 32 meanings. And then, those meanings were classified according to their similarities and grouped into 9 themes, and finally categorized into 4 themes. More specifically, what were stressful to the subjects that they were experiencing in the training course of mental health social work could be largely categorized into 4 themes, or 'lots of trouble in interpersonal relations', 'too much tightness in training schedule', 'little consideration of them by the training agency', and 'poor organization of the training course'. Considering these findings, this study provided practical implications for the training of mental health social work.

• Korean Parent-Child Health Journal
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.73-83
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• 2008

Purpose: This study was to verify the effectiveness of group program for promoting empowerment and self-advocacy of the the mentally disabled persons' families. Methods: This program was set up for the mentally disabled persons' families to share their experiences, do consciousness raising, advocate themselves through group process. A pre-post control group design was used for this study. Results: The results of this study verified that group program was effective to promote empowerment and self advocacy of the mentally disabled persons' families. Also group program helped to express and ventilate family burden actively. Conclusion: This study suggests as follows. In the mental health social work practice we need to develop group programs for family to talk about themselves, to ventilate their emotions, to understand their circumstances and to initiative the change of mental health circumstances as well as education and coping skills about mental illness. For this, there is a need for mental health social worker to have a macroscopic viewpoint and work with family. Also there is a need for mental health social worker to promote family self-help groups and to support their construction and growth.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.545-552
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• 2016

The purpose of study is analyzing the mediating effect of resilience in the relationship between posttraumatic stress and mental health. To get the result, a survey was conducted, targeting social workers who work in Gwang-Ju and Jeonnam area and traumatic experience, posttraumatic stress, social support, resilience and mental health outcome measures were used in the survey. Key outcomes of the analysis are as follows. Firstly, it was showed that between posttraumatic stress, resilience and mental health have a direct relationship. Secondly, it was analyzed that resilience had a partial mediation effect in the relationship between posttraumatic stress and mental health. Based on these results, comprehensive interventions for improving the mental health and resilience of social workers were proposed.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.13-26
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• 2012

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between resilience of migrant workers and their mental health for improving their quality of life and adaptation in Korean society. Methods: Data were collected from March 21 to May 7, 2011. The participants included 488 migrant workers who lived in Busan Metropolitan City or Gyoungnam province. Results: First, heavy working burdens and lack of rests, low wages, poor living environments, low economic status & deficiency of living necessities, hard physical labors, and conflicts with Korean workers had negative effects on mental health. Second, high perceived stress caused by usual 'living difficulties', high 'cutural shock', high feeling of 'social isolation', and high discomfort from 'lack of Korean language proficiency' gave negative effects on migrant worker's mental health. Third, the most important factor on the mental health was the 'cultural shock' among stressors. Even though many stressors existed among migrant workers, these negative effects on mental health were lessened by their high resilience level. Conclusions: This study highlights the importance of migrant workers in Busan, Korea. To improve their mental health, social support including financial supports and educational programs that foster resilience needed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.378-385
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of job-stress, job-family conflict, and mental health according to lifestyles of married office worker. Data were collected by structured questionnaires form 185 married office worker by convenient sampling methods from May to August 2011. In our research outcomes, it found that job-stress was positively related to job-family conflict in the self-belief type, family-centralized type, heeding duty type and creative type. Job-family conflict was negatively related to mental health in the heeding duty type. And job-stress was positively related to metal health in the creative type and individual success pursuing type. These findings show that it is necessary to develop therapeutic psychosocial nursing intervention and to locate social-support-resources for reducing high job-stress, solving job-family conflict, and improving mental health in the married office worker.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.64 no.3
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• pp.127-153
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• 2012

This study aims to develop the case management activities inventory relevant to community-based mental health settings. The comprehensive literature review was conducted to define the concepts and activities for the case management process. After the content analysis from the professional scholar and the mental health-related worker, 83 items were constructed. A survey was conducted to 265 case managers in community mental health centers. Through exploratory factor analysis, reliability and validity analysis, finally 8 factors and 43 items were identified.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

Based on a literature review regarding shift work, it is recognized that it has an adverse effect on workers' health. Especially, the night shift rather than the day shift imposes severe disorders on workers, which are indicated to dyssomnia, maladaptation to social life, and health problems such as gastroenteric trouble, cardiovascular diseases and depression. As the shift work can be explainable by using workers' labor ability necessarily to maintain company business consistently, it does not consider biorhythm, active mass and health condition of workers Actually duration of shit work would deprive workers of fundamental life rights by causing physical and mental effects. As a result of reviewing previous case studies related to effect of work pattern (day shift and night shift) on workers' health, an incidence of physical diseases like dyssomnia, gastroenteric trouble, cardiovascular diseases and premature delivery was higher in shift workers than normal workers. Additionally the incidence of mental disorders such as busy brain, social isolation, depression and work stress was also higher in shift workers than normal workers. These adverse physical and mental problems were intensified to night shift workers compared to day shift workers. Considering current various reports and study results, it is recommended that the shift work, especially the night work pattern, should not apply to contemporary work situation for sustaining workers' health condition constantly.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.289-296
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• 2020

This study uses the qualitative research method to describe the burnout experience in Mental Health Social Workers (MHSW) working in psychiatric hospitals. Data was collected and analyzed to identify the main themes from two in-depth interviews with four MHSWs who have been working in psychiatric hospitals for more than 5 years located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province area. The results of the study show that burnout manifests as; 'not being recognized as professionals,' 'being skeptical of the role of social workers,' 'distancing oneself from patients and their family members,' and 'feeling realistic problems and limitations.' The results of this research are expected to be used as basic data to both understand and prevent the burnout experience of mental health social workers.

• 한국사회복지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.677-702
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to examine the Korean social workers' level of social work values, advocacy attitude and advocacy intervention, and to verify the relations among social work education, social work advocacy and social work values by examining whether social work education influences social work advocacy and social work values, and whether social work values affect social work advocacy. Further, this study wishes to confirm not only the direct effect that social work education has on social work advocacy, but also how social work education indirectly influences social work advocacy through social work values on the social level as a mediator. The research of this study was conducted on 461 social work practitioners who have obtained either social worker licenses or mental health social worker licenses and are currently working in the field. As survey tools, this study utilized social work advocacy attitude, social work advocacy intervention, outcomes of social work education, social work values, self-esteem and locus of control. Collected data were analyzed by using SPSS/PC+ 11.5 for one-way ANOVA and t-test, Pearson's correlation, reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis and multiple regression. To sum up the results of the study in terms of the research hypothesis, the research hypothesis was established according to the analysis method of the testing mediation of Baron & Kenny (1986) in order to examine whether social work values on the social level intervene between social work education and social work advocacy. The results of the hypothesis test confirm that social work values on the social level serve as a mediator variable.