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This study aimed to explore when workers at a residential treatment center for children and youth with emotional and behavioral disorders feel happy, and what happiness means for them. Since workers at a residential treatment center are the most important medium of treating children and youth, workers’ hapiness is ciritical for effective treatment. Narrative inquiry was conductied for a deep understanding of participants’ experiences and qualitative data were collected through 7 interviews with 6 workers from October 13 to December 24, 2020. The findings of this study were categorized under four themes, which are happiness with children and youth, happiness with colleagues, happiness in oneself and happiness from the physical environment. The meaning of happiness was classified into three categories that satisfaction․pleasure․worth, person․relationship, and happiness no matter what Based on the findings, to improve workers’ happiness, we proposed changing the perception of people in management positions and the workers, establishing support and communication system, providing opportunities for success in work based on difficulty level of task, and providing vacations on a regular basis.

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