TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethnic Minority and Majority Social Workers Working with Ethnic Minority Clients
T2 - Culture-Bound Professional Interventions and Burnout among Arab and Jewish Israeli Social Workers
AU - Tartakovsky, Eugene
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - This study tests a new bicultural model of social work with ethnic minority clients. We examined how often social workers applied professional interventions rooted in the minority and majority cultures and how the choice of interventions affected the social workers' burnout. Methods: The study was conducted in Israel, and the research samples included Arab (n = 300) and Jewish (n = 210) social workers. Results: We found that Arab and Jewish social workers more often used interventions rooted in the minority than in the majority culture. More frequent application of both types of interventions was associated with a higher level of personal accomplishment in both groups of social workers. However, the connection between interventions rooted in the majority culture and burnout was positive among Jewish and negative among Arab social workers. Discussion: The implementation of the obtained results in social work practice with ethnic minorities is discussed.
AB - This study tests a new bicultural model of social work with ethnic minority clients. We examined how often social workers applied professional interventions rooted in the minority and majority cultures and how the choice of interventions affected the social workers' burnout. Methods: The study was conducted in Israel, and the research samples included Arab (n = 300) and Jewish (n = 210) social workers. Results: We found that Arab and Jewish social workers more often used interventions rooted in the minority than in the majority culture. More frequent application of both types of interventions was associated with a higher level of personal accomplishment in both groups of social workers. However, the connection between interventions rooted in the majority culture and burnout was positive among Jewish and negative among Arab social workers. Discussion: The implementation of the obtained results in social work practice with ethnic minorities is discussed.
KW - Arab Israeli and Jewish Israeli social workers
KW - burnout of social workers
KW - culturally bound professional interventions
KW - ethnic minority and majority social workers
KW - ethnic minority clients
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116594525&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/10497315211049443
DO - 10.1177/10497315211049443
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AN - SCOPUS:85116594525
SN - 1049-7315
VL - 32
SP - 215
EP - 226
JO - Research on Social Work Practice
JF - Research on Social Work Practice
IS - 2
ER -