Practitioners’ Risk Exposure to Client Violence: A Test of Gender-Sensitive Case Assignment Among Supervisors

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• Personal Author:
  Lowe TB
• Description:
  Gender has emerged as a risk factor for male social workers exposed to client-related assaults in the workplace. This explanatory study examines the main hypothesis that male social workers are more likely to be assigned adult mental health clients with histories of violence than are female colleagues. This experimental case vignette study solicited a national random sample of National Association of Social Workers (NASW) members (N = 181) who identified mental health as their primary service setting and supervision as their primary practice function. This investigation used gender role theory as a conceptual framework. A mixed-model repeated measure analysis of variance was employed to test the hypotheses. The findings suggest that management practices can contribute to disparate assignment of male exposure of gender disparities of client-related violence among social workers. Implications for practice, management, and policy are discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Sex Characteristics Violence Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Case Assignment And Male Social Workers Client-related Violence Gender Gender Factors Mental Health Risk Factors Violence Prevention Workplace Violence
• ISSN:
  0732-5223
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  19-35
• Volume:
  30
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056354
• Citation:
  Clin Superv 2011 Jan; 30(1):19-35
• Contact Point Address:
  Tony B. Lowe, School of Social Work, University of Georgia, 310 East Campus Rd., Athens, GA 30602
• Email:
  tblowe@uga.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  University of Pittsburgh
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20020501
• Source Full Name:
  The Clinical Supervisor
• End Date:
  20030731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0c55df0acc8a559c6a38eb1e42a3a021aab8ee7060d4fc02edb1fe2bea79d13e2a03ee26574b35a0ca9102418247d0e4d9466cddd3ef962b3ee4655359070068
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213977/cdc_213977_DS1.pdf
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