SOCIAL WORK RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS STRESS MANAGEMENT

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  • Coen Reynolds Department of Social Work, Hugenote College, Wellington, South- Africa.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15270/46-1-180

Abstract

Social work managers (the concept of manager here refers to a director of a social service
organisation, head of office or supervisor, or any person who has control over two or more
workers) should create and maintain a work environment (Weinbach, 2003:5) that will be
conducive to maintaining the health and wellbeing of workers and contribute to the effective
delivery of services. Bergh (2004:440) states that “Organisational effectiveness and employee
physical and psychological wellbeing should be equally important and are interrelated”.
Employees, therefore also social workers, should not leave their workplace in a worse state of
health than when they arrived there (Williams & Cooper, 2002:108).

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2014-06-17

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Reynolds, C. (2014). SOCIAL WORK RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS STRESS MANAGEMENT. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 46(1). https://doi.org/10.15270/46-1-180

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