Psychosocial understandings of resilience and shame

Learning Objectives

After considering this resource, you should be able to identify times when you have experienced or witnessed resilience or shame and will be able to appreciate the psychosocial strands at play in the situation.

In this video, Liz Frost talks about what a psychosocial approach can bring to your understanding of human behaviour across the lifecourse, taking the concepts of resilience and shame as examples.

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Reflective Questions

  1. How could you use the psychosocial concept of shame in your practice as a social worker? Liz Frost's examples relate to adults – what relevance do you see for this concept in work with children?
  2. Consider the different factors associated with resilience – social, political and psychological. What methods could you use in your work to support an interdisciplinary approach to promoting resilience?
  3. Consider what other psychosocial concepts would be useful to social work and why.
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