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The Price of Caring.(study finds more social workers suffer posttraumatic stress disorder than general population)(Brief article)

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Byline: William Lee Adams

We know thousands of the troops returning from Iraq will need help to fend off the nightmares they've lived through there. But so, too, may many of the therapists who have experienced those traumas secondhand. A study of civilian social workers in the journal Social Work by Brian Bride, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, shows 15 percent experience posttraumatic stress disorder in their lifetimes, compared with just 7.8 percent of the general population. Forty percent of participants ...

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