Sara Carder
Biographic Data
| ID | 6687412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Carder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Carder |
| SIGNATURE | CARDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0812-840X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Emotional labour in child and family social work teams
Achieving good outcomes for children and families engaged in the social care system relies upon a healthy, confident, and stable workforce. However, child protection social work has been identified as an emotionally demanding area of practice, linked to staff burnout and poor retention. This article draws on a hybrid ethnography of two child and family social work teams in England during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings iden…
‘Being a Social Worker … It's in My DNA’ Retaining Experienced Child and Family Social Workers
The retention of experienced child and family social workers is a significant issue in the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe. Failure to retain experienced practitioners has serious implications for the protection and support of vulnerable children. Existing research and workforce interventions have focused on the support of early‐career social workers to prevent exit. Relatively few studies have examined what can be learned from exper…
The team as a secure base revisited
Purpose Social work teams can provide a secure base for social workers, supporting them to manage the emotional demands of child and family social work (Biggart et al., 2017). As the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated increased remote working, social workers have needed to maximise their use of virtual networks and navigate new ways of connecting with colleagues. This study aims to examine the extent to which social work teams can function as a s…
The team as a secure base revisited
Purpose Social work teams can provide a secure base for social workers, supporting them to manage the emotional demands of child and family social work (Biggart et al., 2017). As the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated increased remote working, social workers have needed to maximise their use of virtual networks and navigate new ways of connecting with colleagues. This study aims to examine the extent to which social work teams can function as a s…
The team as a secure base revisited
Purpose Social work teams can provide a secure base for social workers, supporting them to manage the emotional demands of child and family social work (Biggart et al., 2017). As the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated increased remote working, social workers have needed to maximise their use of virtual networks and navigate new ways of connecting with colleagues. This study aims to examine the extent to which social work teams can function as a s…
‘Being a Social Worker … It's in My DNA’ Retaining Experienced Child and Family Social Workers
The retention of experienced child and family social workers is a significant issue in the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe. Failure to retain experienced practitioners has serious implications for the protection and support of vulnerable children. Existing research and workforce interventions have focused on the support of early‐career social workers to prevent exit. Relatively few studies have examined what can be learned from exper…
Emotional labour in child and family social work teams
Achieving good outcomes for children and families engaged in the social care system relies upon a healthy, confident, and stable workforce. However, child protection social work has been identified as an emotionally demanding area of practice, linked to staff burnout and poor retention. This article draws on a hybrid ethnography of two child and family social work teams in England during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings iden…
Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Work (3 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (1 works) · Child protection (1 works)