Resilience and Covid-19: action plans and strategies in a military community

Abstract

A pandemic takes a toll on emotional health and tests psychological resilience. In particular, interpersonal interactions in military communities have been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. The military must focus resilience training away from the individual and towards the community. This study investigated the practical assistance rendered to soldiers in aid of their mental health. Specifically, this study analysed the development and implementation of a teaching action plan aimed at improving the psychological resilience of soldiers. The plan was based on the community counselling model, and it serves as a reference for social workers, especially in their conduct of educational programmes.

Responses to COVID-19 in Major Social Work Journals: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies, Comments, and Editorials

“…Social workers were required to have a paradigm shift in adopting ICT to deliver formal service by having diverse ICT options, a client-driven approach, and creativity (Mishna, Milne, Bogo, & Pereira, 2020). Practice examples included the following: telehealth in an Australian child adolescent mental health clinic (de Kam, 2020); an online family-based prevention program in the US (Cohen & Tisch, 2021); virtual social work care with older black adults in Canada (Giwa, Mullings, & Karki, 2020); a social media campaign in Lebanon titled “Humans discriminate, Viruses don’t” (Badran, 2020); and the use of the Internet to care for cadets by military social workers in Taiwan (Chiu & Yu, 2020). Technology training and creative strategies would be necessary for social workers to assist older adults in learning and using new telehealth and social engagement technologies (Gibson et al, 2020).…”

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Using Sport and Traditional Games at the Higher Military Educational Establishments in a Pandemic and Post-pandemic Period

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has become an additional issue that is very disruptive for the society creating unprecedented challenges in all spheres of national activity (1)(2)(3), including the sector of defense and security. The constant expansion of this negative phenomena causes the necessity to increase the readiness of future officers to overcome successfully extreme and uncertain situations.…”

“…The cadets face a number of difficulties like imperative communication, increased physical and psychological load, greater demands on daily performance (2,4,5). All these challenges can lead to significant stress and affect the cadets' attitudes to future service.…”