As a result, most adults who work with children – including educators, school professionals, and many in the social service profession – have little or no training about how to help kids process their grief.
Re "Bush Fleshes Out Details of Proposal to Expand Aid to Religious Organizations" (news article, Jan . 31: The voice missing in the public debate about government-supported "faith-based" social services is the profession of social work.
A study examining 15,000 graduates with bachelor's degrees who are 35 years old and younger found that, in addition to engineering, there are six occupations with relatively equal pay, including nursing, social services, and life sciences professions.
It is difficult to know whether the police, social services or the medical profession should be more ashamed of continuing to allow this to happen.
Since the freeze on public sector appointments in 2010 and the continuous exodus of social workers from the profession, social services have become hit or miss in many parts of the country.
Social service professionals tend to overlook strengths.
Berridge also raised the concern that some people may be put off studying social work, despite a desire to work in social services, due to the way the profession is treated in the media.
Going through the attendance roster of those members now, I realized that a majority of them had listed "social service" as their profession.
While only certain professions like health care and social services are clearly required by law to report suspected child abuse, most workers have a moral responsibility to do so, Mr. Madsen said.
Burnout is defined as a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, cynicism and reduced professional efficacy [ 1] that occurs among various people-oriented professions such as health care and social services [ 2].
