Traditional clinical professions, as well as the emerging child and youth care profession, have focused primarily on the welfare of identified clients. While the personal and professional well-being of practitioners has long been addressed in the training and supervision of human service workers, serious efforts to identify problems confronting these workers and potential consequences for both staff and residents are comparatively recent. This classic contribution to the literature highlights ways in which child and youth care has provided leadership on the management of occupational stress in the human services. (Contains 1 note.)