Brend Denise Michelle, Olaniyan Oyeniyi Samuel, Collin-Vézina Delphine
School of Social Work and Criminology, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
Department of Psychology, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway.
Front Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024 Jul 25;3:1360365. doi: 10.3389/frcha.2024.1360365. eCollection 2024.
Multiple risk and protective factors influence the wellbeing and retention of child protective and youth justice professionals. Less attention has been given to empirically understand how residential childcare workers (RCW) experience these factors. A sense of pride and of achievement may be related to competence and satisfaction, which have been identified as protective factors against staff turnover.
Responses to the Secure Base Interview Protocol question "What aspects of caring for (name of child in their care) have given you the greatest sense of pride or achievement?" were extracted from individual interview transcripts from Canadian RCW and analyzed using the Interpretive Description methodology. Themes were aggregated using the thematic analysis technique to create descriptions of RCW pride and achievement.
The RCW identified many experiences of work-related pride and achievement while caring for children and youth. These positive experiences were described to occur contingent on the level of mutuality and trust in the helping relationship shared between the RCW and child or youth in their care.
The reciprocal nature of the relationships described by RCW that gave rise to their felt sense of pride and accomplishment is a novel finding. Future work is indicated to better understand how protective factors related to RCW wellbeing may indeed be relationally constructed and dependent.
多种风险和保护因素会影响儿童保护及青少年司法专业人员的幸福感和留任意愿。对于从实证角度理解寄宿儿童保育员（RCW）如何体验这些因素的关注较少。自豪感和成就感可能与能力和满意度相关，而能力和满意度已被确定为防止员工流失的保护因素。
从加拿大寄宿儿童保育员的个人访谈记录中提取对“照顾（其照顾的儿童姓名）的哪些方面给你带来了最大的自豪感或成就感？”这一安全基地访谈协议问题的回答，并使用解释性描述方法进行分析。使用主题分析技术汇总主题，以描述寄宿儿童保育员的自豪感和成就感。
寄宿儿童保育员在照顾儿童和青少年时确定了许多与工作相关的自豪感和成就感体验。这些积极体验被描述为取决于寄宿儿童保育员与他们所照顾的儿童或青少年之间共享的帮助关系中的相互性和信任程度。
寄宿儿童保育员所描述的产生他们的自豪感和成就感的关系的互惠性质是一个新发现。未来的工作需要更好地理解与寄宿儿童保育员幸福感相关的保护因素实际上可能是如何在关系中构建和依赖的。
