{"id":2858,"date":"2015-05-20T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T07:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2015-05-20T15:25:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T07:25:40","slug":"empowering-battered-women-an-integrative-model-of-incorporating-resilience-in-social-work-training-and-supervision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=2858","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Battered Women: An Integrative Model of Incorporating Resilience in Social Work Training and Supervision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kai-Ming Lee<\/strong>
\nGood Shepard Welfare Services
\nShu-Fen Chen<\/strong>
\nGood Shepard Welfare Services<\/p>\n

This paper was based on the staff development program implemented by a private social welfare organization. \u201cResilience\u201d had long been adopted as a key concept working with such disadvantaged women till a more complete staff training program on resilience was installed by the agency district supervisor with the assistance from an outside consultant in 2005. The program consists of setting up the training manual, one-day training, six case conferences and two workshops on \u201cstress management and building resilience of staff\u201d.
\nThe paper reviews background knowledge of resilience mainly from two resources. Firstly, the key components introduced by Vanistendal as ways of building resilience ; on his analogy of blocks : acceptance, informal social support, self esteem, finding order and meanings in life, using humor and enhancing skills, are all crucial to the resilient person. Secondly, historical review of empowerment in social work including Sue\u2019s theory on working with minority is also illustrated to cover the macro-level aspect. These two orientations are combined in the training of servicing battered women.
\nFeedback from the attending staff was gathered and the result showed fairly strong support for declaring resilience as the agency central philosophical framework. Staff expressed learning in adapting positive perspective, increase in respectfulness, acceptance, objectivity and sensitivity. The stress management workshop was considered highly supportive and interactive and meeting the needs of the staff.
\nExamples of how resilience is incorporated in different areas of works are illustrated, and the final celebration of \u201c a resilience day\u201d was arranged at the end of the training. Different centers presented how they applied the concept according to the different nature of their work. The collective expression was not only fun and creative but also demonstrating mutually empowering processes between the women and their social workers. Samples of the programs are shared in this paper.
\nIt is noted from the case conferences that more critical thinking of the disempowering aspects of social cultural conditions is needed to be further enhanced. Also expanding the advocacy role and connecting with services for the perpetrators in the protective network of the battered women are of importance in future training.<\/p>\n

Keywords\uff1aresilience, empowerment, battered women, social work supervision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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