AUSTIN (KXAN) — Social work is an important profession, but isn’t easy. Stress and burnout abound among workers tackling addiction, according to a spokesperson with The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Social Work.
The spokesperson announced Thursday that the National Institute on Drug Abuse, or NIDA, awarded the school’s Addiction Research Institute (ARI) with a research grant. That funding will help ARI further study a framework that researchers say could address that stress and burnout.
Called the “Stress First Aid (SFA) framework,” it is a “self-care and peer support framework adapted by the researchers behind TxCOPE and leaders in the harm reduction community.” TxCOPE, or Texans Connecting Overdose Prevention Efforts, began in 2019…