{"id":6131,"date":"2021-01-16T09:05:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T03:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2021-01-16T09:09:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T03:39:33","slug":"covid-19-impact-in-israel-a-call-for-international-networking-to-promote-resilience-and-coping-among-front-line-university-social-work-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/covid-19\/6131-covid-19-impact-in-israel-a-call-for-international-networking-to-promote-resilience-and-coping-among-front-line-university-social-work-students\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Impact in Israel: A Call for International Networking to Promote Resilience and Coping among Front-Line University Social Work Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

COVID-19 Impact in Israel: <\/strong><\/p>\n

A Call for International Networking to Promote Resilience and Coping among Front-Line University Social Work Students <\/strong><\/p>\n

Shmaya Bender <\/strong>\u2013 BSW*<\/strong><\/p>\n

shmayab@post.bgu.ac.il<\/p>\n

Mor Yehudi \u2013 MSW<\/strong><\/p>\n

moryehu@post.bgu.ac.il<\/a><\/p>\n

Roi Erel \u2013 BSW* <\/strong><\/p>\n

erelro@post.bgu.ac.il<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVID 19 is a serios challenge faced by university students responsible for the well-being of individuals, families and communities (International Federation of Social Workers, 2020).\u00a0 This brief report provides insight of COVID-19 impact on the health and well-being of Israeli university social work students during the first and second waves of infection.<\/p>\n

\u201cR.M.\u201d is a 26-year old female student who works as a counselor in a community based mental health residential facility for young adult patients.<\/strong><\/p>\n

” I\u2019m a very social and friendly person that needs social interaction, so social distancing and quarantine led to deterioration of my mood resulting in short episodes of depression, low self-esteem and incompetence… In response, I began self-medicating with cannabis and alcohol more than before … In the beginning, it was a way to deal with boredom, but [overtime] it was needed to escape reality and generate calm.\u2026During quarantine, I was heavily self-medicating but continued my client responsibilities….”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cY.M.\u201d is a 22-year old male student providing mental health services to youth with behavior problems placed in a residential facility.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“As an instructor in a home for at risk youth, the coronavirus outbreak was an emotional obstacle for me, a heavy responsibility regarding the emotional therapy I provide to teens\u2026 At the beginning of the outbreak, the fear was intense and I was quarantine for two weeks. \u00a0That decision caused me much guilt, leaving the teens when they needed me most.\u201d \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cM.S.\u201d is a 23-year old female student counselor working with older adults at a local welfare office.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“At the beginning, I didn’t take the virus seriously and continued to do my clinical work online \u2026 I was highly affected by older clients who expressed anxiety, fear and loneliness… and began to experience such conditions myself. \u00a0My workplace offered me to stay home. I felt guilt and anxiety about that decision\u2026…As weeks went by, my clients began to relax and adjust to the situation; and, my ability to treat them became better.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic is a major crisis with multiple consequences for those needing and providing support and services. For social work students addressing COVID-19, opportunities for international peer contact and experience sharing should be promoted to build student residence and coping during disaster conditions that call for social work intervention.<\/p>\n

For download click here:https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Front-Line-Social-Work-Students.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

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COVID-19 Impact in Israel: A Call for International Networking to Promote Resilience and Coping among Front-Line University Social Work Students Shmaya Bender \u2013 BSW* shmayab@post.bgu.ac.il Mor Yehudi \u2013 MSW moryehu@post.bgu.ac.il Roi Erel \u2013 BSW* erelro@post.bgu.ac.il \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 COVID 19 is a serios challenge faced by university students responsible for the well-being…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"28","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,18],"tags":[55,52,53],"class_list":["post-6131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-covid-19-stories","category-featured","tag-covid-19","tag-iassw","tag-socialwork","category-28","category-29","category-18","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}