Research & scholarship
Reflective Supervision & Secondary Traumatic Stress
Doctoral inquiry into workforce resilience and organizational responses to trauma exposure within child welfare.
The practice question
Child-welfare professionals routinely encounter trauma, ambiguity, urgency, public scrutiny, and institutional pressure. The inquiry asks how supervision can support judgment, meaning-making, well-being, and professional growth without treating systemic stress as an individual weakness.
The approach
The work integrates social-work scholarship, child-welfare practice, trauma theory, organizational climate, reflective supervision, and workforce-development research.
The contribution
A developing practitioner-scholar framework connecting secondary traumatic stress, reflective capacity, psychological safety, learning, retention, and organizational responsibility.
