“You Hear About These Healthcare Workers, You Never Hear About the Social Workers”: Hospital Social Workers and Collective Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Shoshana Cantwell, Johanna Creswell Báez, Elise Johnson, Lauri Goldkind, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, New York, Social Work Department, College of Public Service, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, LCSW and Emergency Department Clinical Social Worker, Long Beach Medical Center, Long Beach

Qualitative Health Research

Published online on May 15, 2025

Abstract

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Throughout the COVID-19 global pandemic, hospital social workers simultaneously experienced trauma along with the rest of the world impacted by the pandemic, as well as treating others for trauma in their professional capacities. This qualitative study of ...