Building Resilience as a Contemporary Challenge for Social Workers

PUNOVÁ, Monika. Building Resilience as a Contemporary Challenge for Social Workers. In 9th International E-Conference on Advances in Engineering, Technology and Management - ICETM 2023. 2023.

Basic information

• Original name: Building Resilience as a Contemporary Challenge for Social Workers
• Authors: PUNOVÁ, Monika (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 9th International E-Conference on Advances in Engineering, Technology and Management - ICETM 2023, 2023.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 50902 Social sciences, interdisciplinary
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/23:00134499
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Keywords in English: resilience; well-being; risk factor; protective factor; social worker
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

The paper focuses on the resilience of social workers. It aims to highlight strategies for increasing resilience in social workers in their daily practice to enable them to cope with the pressures of their demanding role. The current turbulent times, particularly in relation to the management of the Covid-19 pandemic and working with war refugees from Ukraine, are testament to this demanding nature. Resilience itself is defined as a concept that refers to the dynamic multi-level process of adaptation and achieving the desired level of well-being of a social worker despite experiencing distinct difficulties in managing their professional role. Within this conception, resilience is not seen as a static personality characteristic, but as a concept that has a changing, situational character over time.

Links

• TL03000199, research and development project: Name: Rodičovství za mřížemi

Investor: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic