Macdonald G, Sirotich F
School of Social Work, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M3J-1P3.
Soc Work. 2001 Apr;46(2):107-14. doi: 10.1093/sw/46.2.107.
Much has been written about client violence against social workers; however, little attention has been given to reporting behavior of social workers who have been the target of such violence. The study discussed in this article documents the prevalence of client violence among a sample of social workers from a broad range of social work settings. It examines respondents' reasons for not reporting or for reporting client violence to management. A random sample of 300 social workers was mailed a questionnaire that examined these issues. A total of 171 questionnaires were returned, for a response rate of 57 percent. The majority of respondents had experienced some form of violence from clients. Approximately one-quarter of respondents indicated that they did not report an incident of violence perpetrated against them by a client.
关于服务对象对社会工作者的暴力行为，已有诸多著述；然而，对于遭受此类暴力的社会工作者的报告行为却鲜有关注。本文所讨论的研究记录了来自广泛社会工作环境的社会工作者样本中服务对象暴力行为的发生率。它考察了受访者不向管理层报告或报告服务对象暴力行为的原因。向300名社会工作者的随机样本邮寄了一份调查问卷，以调查这些问题。共收到171份问卷，回复率为57%。大多数受访者都曾遭受过服务对象某种形式的暴力。约四分之一的受访者表示，他们没有报告服务对象对其实施的暴力事件。
