A Research On Social Work Intervention Of Prison Police Officer’s Occupational Stress

Prison police officers, as a relatively special occupational group, are not onlytaking over the most vital link of judicial system, but also would make inconceivableconsequences by a dereliction and bug of duty. At present, the academic researches onprison police officers are mainly focus on work pressure, individual pressure, jobburnout and mental toughness in the perspective of psychology. This thesis analyzesthe occupational stress of prison police officers by the theory and method of socialwork based on the prison of J city, and present that the current occupational stress ofprison police officers is mainly from the occupation itself, the organization andmanagement system and the social support. As to the psychological problems causedby the occupational stress, interpersonal relationship and family issue, the authorcarries out a series of group work intervention, and also evaluates and discusses theresults of intervention.The first part of this thesis introduces the background of the research, significanceof the research, literature review and methodology. The second part takes the prison ofJ city as the subject to analyze the current problems, faced by prison police officers,of occupational stress from work, society, individual, life and interpersonalrelationship by qualitative and quantitative data. The divers and complicated stresssource make many prison police officers fall into depressed, fear, anxiety, dissatisfiedand other negative mood, which seriously impact their working enthusiasm, efficiency,stability and morale. The third part introduces the design of project plans, implementand evaluation. the author designs ten group activities, by group work method, toconduct intervention of stress release. During the process of intervention, the author employs the Need Theory, Group Dynamics Theory, Strength Perspective Theory,Empowerment Theory, Social Learning Theory, Cognitive-behavioral Theory, SocialSupport Network Theory and Social Ecological Systems Theory to design the groupwork program according to the diversity of stress resource, as a result, this programrelease and ease the pressure effectively.The author found that group works release the occupational stress of thepsychological level of group and individual, arise the level of self-esteem which isbeneficial to the physical and psychological health, ease the negative mood, teach theofficers right pressure reduce methods, enhance the ability of interpersonalrelationship, promote the working enthusiasm, sense of social responsibility and senseof occupational achievement, as well as help the prison police officers to constructbeneficial social network support. The last part is conclusion and rethinking. Theauthor presents comprehensive application of multi-disciplinary knowledge, idea,method and technique, and attempts to design and conduct parallel group between theprison police officers and the prisoners, which can release the occupational stresseffectively.