Brend, Denise Michelle ; Sprang, Ginny2022-02-082022-02-082020Brend, Denise Michelle ; Sprang, Ginny. (2020). Trauma-Informed Care in Child Welfare: An Imperative for Residential Childcare Workers. International Journal of Child and Adolescent Resilience, 7(1): 154-165.https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ijcar/2020-v7-n1-ijcar05590/1072595ar.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/5324Context: Rates of traumatization among residential child welfare professionals are alarmingly high. The well-being of these professionals is associated both with their intention to stay in their jobs and outcomes of children in their care. Several risk factors threaten the well-being of child welfare professionals, including primary and secondary exposure to experiences with the potential to provoke posttraumatic stress reactions. Objectives: This manuscript details experiences empirically shown to have potential negative impacts on professional well-being, discusses why these impacts are of particular concern for residential childcare workers, and describes the types of organizational cultures and climates that appear to mitigate these negative impacts. Implications: Trauma-informed care at the organizational level is proposed both as a means to reduce harm to child-welfare professionals and promote the rehabilitation of children within the child welfare system. (Author Abstract)enchild abusesecondary traumatic stresscompassion fatiguestressinstitutionalInternational ResourcesCanadaArticle