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    Challenges and ways of coping of Filipino Social Workers providing aftercare service
    (2018) Jenica mae B. Cayanan and Catherine C. Mercado
    Filipino social workers experience unique challenges on a daily basis. Aftercare service is one of the programs in social work that they provide and at the same time challenge them. The study aims to explore the challenges and coping mechanisms of social workers providing aftercare service. It also aims to identify the factors that affect the social workers in their work. Five interviews were conducted. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data to identify the themes. And Transaction Model of Stress and Coping Theory of Lazarus and Folkman, 1984 was used to analyzed ways of coping of Filipino social workers and how they perceived challenges in Aftercare service. The findings suggest Filipino social workers do have different challenges in Aftercare service and problem-focused coping was the dominant coping used by them. A common challenge to Filipino social workers is the lack of staffs or workers in their workplace which also a factor on why they are unable to monitor and focus to their clients in Aftercare program. Challenges leads them to have stress ad stress is one of their biggest challenge in social work. Stress leads to both physical and mental impacts on personal well-being, although they have coping skills, participants suggested that social workers must be flexible in their work and personal well-being, although they have coping skills, participants suggested that social workers must be flexible in their work and personal matter in order to avoid conflict within selves.