A Critical Review of Resilience Theory and Its Relevance for Social Work

Breda, Adrian D. van

doi:10.15270/54-1-611

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“…Many students spoke of the support of family and consequently this support bolstered their resilience. Community resilience explored by Van Breda (2001) refers to the family as a protective factor increasing the resilience of individuals. For some students, colleagues and friends helped put low grades into perspective.…”

Section: Coping With Study On a Level 1 Modulementioning

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What factors promote student resilience on a level 1 distance learning module?

Simons

Beaumont

Holland

2017

Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning

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Resilience is understood to be the ability to adapt positively in the face of adversity. In relation to new students on a distance learning module, this can mean how they adapt and make sense of the demands of their chosen study to enable them to persist in their studies. This article reports a small-scale study involving semistructured telephone interviews with students on a level 1 distance learning module at the UK Open University. Students identified the challenges they experienced such as carving out time to study alongside other commitments, as well as developing their academic writing. Students also identified factors that enabled them to adapt to these challenges and be successful in continuing to study. Students rated highly the support they received from tutors in the form of tailored, detailed feedback on their assignments. Other factors that enabled students to persist in their studies were time management, self-belief and motivation.

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Section: Coping With Study On a Level 1 Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

What factors promote student resilience on a level 1 distance learning module?

Simons

Beaumont

Holland

2017

Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning

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“…SLA also shares conceptual synergy with other theories such as resilience, asset-based community development and the strengths perspective in that the focus is on mutual trust, norms and community networks, which are perceived as key features of social life that facilitate or ease social interactions encouraging people to work together towards shared goals ((Van Breda, 2018;Wissing & van Eeden, 2002). This framework implies that single-mother households should be able to mobilise their members to reduce the risk of dysfunction and support optimal adaptation.…”

Section: Relevance Of the Sustainable Livelihood Approachmentioning

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Single Mothers Employed in the Formal Work Sector in Germany and South Africa

Raniga

Boecker

Mthembu

2019

SWORK

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This article seeks to disrupt the dominant discourses of victimhood related to single-mother family status. Drawing on a sustainable livelihood framework, we present data from in-depth interviews held with 25 single mothers sampled in Hagen, Germany, and in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces in South Africa. We discuss how participants engaged in positive human capital development, building social capital and tapped into multiple income streams for economic security. Given the intersectional injustices that single mothers face, the strengths the women drew on in their lives is worth noting. We conclude that single mothers have created a new narrative for themselves beyond a pathological one.

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“…Resilience is a multidimensional construct that varies with context, culture and time [10,11]. Despite that the operationalization of this construct has considerably varied within the literature [12], various empirical ndings and models have described resilience as having three important components: successful adjustment to stress, the propensity to experience positive emotions in the face of stressful situations, and optimism [13,14]. It is suggested that cognitive interpretations of individuals about a stressful situation and the way they cope with adverse circumstances seem to be associated with their resilience in the face of distressing events [13,14].…”

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The effect of online multimedia psychoeducational interventions on the perceived stress and resilience of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a quasi-experimental study

Shaygan

Yazdani

Valibeigi

2020

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Background There are evidence suggesting that quarantine might have undesirable psychological impacts on the patients. Therefore, it is important to seek for ways to alleviate the psychological pressure as well as increase the resilience of the patients who are quarantined due to infection with COVID-19. The present study was conducted to examine the effect of an online multimedia psychoeducational intervention on perceived stress and resilience of patients hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19. Method: Participants in this fully online trial were 50 consecutive patients who were hospitalized in 2 hospitals in Shiraz, after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Before the start of intervention, four inpatient wards of two hospitals were randomly assigned to either experimental or control condition. All eligible participants in wards allocated to the intervention condition received online multimedia psychoeducational interventions during 2 weeks, whilst patients in wards allocated to the control condition only received face-to-face or telephone based psychological counseling in case of need. Psychoeducational interventions mainly included cognitive–behavioural techniques, mindfulness-based stress reduction and positive psychotherapy. Patients were assessed on perceived stress and resilience at baseline and 2 weeks later. Results Compared with the control group, patients who used online multimedia psychoeducational interventions reported fewer perceived stress and greater resilience after 2 weeks. Discussion The findings of the present study provide a successful first attempt at implementing online multimedia psychoeducational interventions to promote resilience and mitigate stress of patients who are hospitalized due to infection with COVID-19. The present results could help mental health professionals to determine which psychological techniques should be emphasized to promote patients' resilience in the context of COVID-19 disease.

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A Critical Review of Resilience Theory and Its Relevance for Social Work

Cited by 249 publications

References 54 publications

What factors promote student resilience on a level 1 distance learning module?

What factors promote student resilience on a level 1 distance learning module?

Single Mothers Employed in the Formal Work Sector in Germany and South Africa

The effect of online multimedia psychoeducational interventions on the perceived stress and resilience of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a quasi-experimental study

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