Teaching resilience skills to social work students and others Abur, William 2020, Teaching resilience skills to social work students and others, African Journal of Social Work, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 23-31. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads abur-teachingresilienceskills-2020.pdf Published version application/pdf 253.21KB 7 Title Teaching resilience skills to social work students and others Author(s) Abur, William orcid.org/0000-0002-3640-1573 Journal name African Journal of Social Work Volume number 10 Issue number 2 Start page 23 End page 31 Total pages 9 Publisher African Journal of Social Work Place of publication Makhanda, South Africa Publication date 2020-08-15 ISSN 2409-5605 1563-3934 Keyword(s) social work resilience skills students emotional challenges teaching research Ubuntu concept African Indigenous Summary Social work as a profession is a growing area in many Indigenous community groups around the world. Students who choose to study social work have some strong voices and commitments to serve vulnerable families, individuals and community groups that are facing some social, health and political issues. Building resilience resources and skills for social work students who are studying social work course is part of the social work roles. In reallife, social issues and health issues challenged many people in different levels which caused emotional challenges, feeling of uncertain and helpless. Therefore, teaching resilience skills to social work students is very important in order for students tobe well-prepared and managed complex issues of their clients in the field of social work such as emotional reaction of clients and work pressures. This paper is a literature review of resilience that used Ubuntu concept from African Indigenous perspectivein humanity and community. The paper first provided introduction of Ubuntu philosophy to reader. Second, thepaper provided background of the research problem, which is the need of resilience skills in social work teaching. Finally, the paper summarised resilience skills that are suitable to social work practitioners, social work students and social work lecturers in their field of practice to support their clients and themselves while dealing withcomplex and emotional issues in the fields. Language eng Indigenous content off HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2020, National Association of Social Workers-Zimbabwe/Author(s) Free to Read? Yes Use Rights Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30141040 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Open Access Collection NIKERI Institute Related Links Link Description Link to full-text (open access)     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Sat, 22 Aug 2020, 13:25:28 EST Sat, 22 Aug 2020, 13:26:11 EST Sun, 23 Aug 2020, 05:00:15 EST Mon, 24 Aug 2020, 08:04:54 EST Tue, 01 Sep 2020, 06:03:20 EST Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 09:49:55 EST Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 09:52:40 EST Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 09:54:00 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 64 Abstract Views, 7 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Sat, 22 Aug 2020, 13:26:11 EST

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