Resilience

Skills Amidst
the COVID-
19 Pandemic
Marie Grace A. Gomez, Ph.D., RGC
Professor 1
Counselor Education Area
College of Education
University of the Philippines -Diliman
How are you
today?
How do you really feel beyond
the emojis
 Check In
⊷ A process where members of
the group are invited, in the
beginning of each meeting,
to share their struggles,
questions, dilemmas,
accomplishments, and
failures related to their
group-work activities.

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 Importance of Check Ins
▰ Opportunities to talk with
each other about
experiences, particularly
the common ups and
downs (Clemans, 2010)
▰ Have the experience of being
members of a classroom group
as students and as persons
(Clemans, 2009)

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 Importance of Check
Ins
⊷ Encourages everyone to
have a voice (Shulman,
2006)
⊷ Enables everyone to
listen and offer support,
ideas, challenges, and
guidance to each other
(Glassman, 2009)

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 Importance of Check Ins
⊷Can help members
feel known (Spencer,
2020)
⊷Makes sure that all are
seen and heard (De
Witt, 2020)
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1.
Resilience:
What it is and
what the
current body
of literature
says about it
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 The 3 C’s of
Resilience
•  Commitment – believing that
what you do is important.
• Control – believing you have
some influence the
outcome of events.
• Challenge – viewing a
potentially stressful event
as a challenge instead of a
threat.
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NVIVO Word Cloud
based on 30articles
on resilience during
uncertainty search

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2.
What builds
resilience?
 Building Resilience
⊷Identifying and
changing attitudes that
undermine resilience
building
⊷ Developing self-
belief
Neenan, M (2018). Developing Resilience. UK: Routledge.
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 Building Resilience
⊷Increasing your level
of frustration
tolerance
⊷Maintaining a resilient
outlook.

Neenan, M (2018). Developing Resilience. UK: Routledge.

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 Building Resilience
⊷ Managing negative emotions in
difficult times
⊷ Using an assets and liabilities model
to understand resilient behavior
⊷ Distinguishing between what’s within
and outside of your control
⊷ Identifying and changing attitudes that
undermine resilience building
Neenan, M (2018). Developing Resilience. UK: Routledge
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 Building Resilience
⊷Distinguishing between
what’s within and outside of
your control
⊷Identifying and changing
attitudes that undermine
resilience building
Neenan, M (2018). Developing Resilience. UK: Routledge
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 Maintaining Being accountable
Investing energy
structure and (taking care of a
in intimate
focusing the things pet, being a
relationships
you can control parent)

Nurturing social Maintaining a

Strengthen different sense of
connections parts of ourselves belonging
(skill-building)

Looking after
Stabilizing Nurturing
our basic
finances spirituality
needs
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