Group Social Work Study On The Improvement Of Professional Women’s Resilience From The Spiritual Social Work Perspective

Resilience is an internal force to promote individuals to actively cope with pressure and overcome difficulties.With the progress of social civilization,women are having a much higher social status in China,while professional women are suffering from more pressure than men due to the shackles of traditional ideas and concepts,the conflict of multiple identity roles,the intensified competition in the workplace and the particularity of physiological structure,which have caused a serious impact on their physical and psychological health.Besides,more risks will accumulate if no intervention and adjustment is done on a timely basis,thus leading to suicide ideas and behaviors.Therefore,it is crucial to improve professional women’s resilience to deal with various stressful events.Guided by the strength perspective theory and self-efficacy theory,the author took 67 professional women from the Z community of Chongqing as the research object,then the author collected their information with questionnaire method,and analyzed their resilience status.The result shows that the resilience score of professional women from the Z community of Chongqing is(60.58±4.16),which is lower than the domestic normalized score(65.40±13.90),it means that their resilience level needs further improvement.On this basis,the author learns the specific features of resilience of professional women from the Z community of Chongqing with interview method and observation method,including insufficient emotion management ability,self-cognitive bias,and low sense of self-efficacy.Therefore,the author recruited seven professional women to participate in this group activity with both online and offline methods according to the actual situation.For their problems and demands,the author starts from the spiritual perspective of social work and designs eight group activities based on four abilities of Taoism Peaceful Mind Therapy of Jinyun and three dimensions of resilience to help group members improve their abilities of relaxing,concentration,awareness and inclusiveness,relieve physical and mental pressure,release unhealthy mood,establish positive cognition,enhance toughness,power,and optimism,improve the sense of self-efficacy,and finally achieve the goal of resilience improvement.Through eight group activities of resilience improvement,the average resilience score of group members increased by 14,which indicated that Taoism Peaceful Mind Therapy of Jinyun plays a positive role for professional women’s resilience improvement.In addition,the author also discovers that growth group helps improve the service objects’ sense of self-efficacy,and spiritual social work can enhance the members’ self-awareness.