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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) on the relationship between client violence and problem drinking among social welfare officials. Methods: Subjects of this study were 208 social welfare officials in Jeollabuk do. IES-R-K, AUDIT-K, client violence scale were used for the study. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS 21.0, AMOS 21.0. Structural Equation Modeling in AMOS 20.0 was adopted to examine measurement model and mediating effects of PTSD by using bootstrapping method. Results: First, the results indicated that the incidences of full PTSD and subsyndromal PTSD in the subjects were 30.8% and 23.1%, respectively and total 53.9% showed PTSD. Second, client violence showed significant impact on the problem drinking of subjects. Third, the analysis resulted confined the partial mediation effects of PTSD in the relations between client violence and problem drinking among social welfare officials. Conclusion: Based on these findings suggested that social work officials’ intervention service should be discussed to prevent PTSD, to treat client violence and attention to the PTSD, problem drinking. The implications and limitations of these findings were discussed, and directions for future studies were also proposed.