Research Summary | Hope & Burnout in Child Welfare

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The provided research article examines the relationship between hope and resilience in mitigating burnout among child welfare professionals. The study involved two independent samples of child welfare professionals in Oklahoma and utilized structural equation modeling to analyze the data. The findings indicate that both hope and resilience are independent protective factors for burnout, but hope is a significantly larger predictor of lower burnout compared to resilience. The authors suggest that interventions aimed at increasing hope in child welfare practice may be effective in reducing burnout and turnover for child welfare professionals.