‘I have built an office for myself in the sauna’ – The well-being of social workers in liminal space during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic

We examine the experiences of Finnish social workers regarding their well-being during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic by analysing social workers’ diaries (n = 33) using thematic analysis. The pandemic and the restrictive measures caused significant changes in work and private lives chall...

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Autores principales: Saraniemi, Sanna, Harrikari, Timo, Fiorentino, Vera, Romakkaniemi, Marjo, Tiitinen, Laura, Leppiaho, Tuomas
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10375223/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00208728231186519
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description We examine the experiences of Finnish social workers regarding their well-being during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic by analysing social workers’ diaries (n = 33) using thematic analysis. The pandemic and the restrictive measures caused significant changes in work and private lives challenging social workers’ well-being. Restrictive measures provided a kind of liminal space where the boundary between work and private life, daily rhythms and relationships with coworkers and clients were redefined. This exceptional period required challenging demarcations to safeguard the well-being of social workers, but it also provided new options to promote their well-being.
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spelling pubmed-103752232023-07-28 ‘I have built an office for myself in the sauna’ – The well-being of social workers in liminal space during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic Saraniemi, Sanna Harrikari, Timo Fiorentino, Vera Romakkaniemi, Marjo Tiitinen, Laura Leppiaho, Tuomas Int Soc Work Article We examine the experiences of Finnish social workers regarding their well-being during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic by analysing social workers’ diaries (n = 33) using thematic analysis. The pandemic and the restrictive measures caused significant changes in work and private lives challenging social workers’ well-being. Restrictive measures provided a kind of liminal space where the boundary between work and private life, daily rhythms and relationships with coworkers and clients were redefined. This exceptional period required challenging demarcations to safeguard the well-being of social workers, but it also provided new options to promote their well-being. SAGE Publications 2023-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10375223/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00208728231186519 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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