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This article presents a phenomenological analysis of social work students' reflections on their changing and fluid identities ; the ways in which they have harnessed professional confidence and come to terms with their emotions and consolidated their self-identity in the process of training to become a social worker.
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This article is important for any health and social care professional trying to understand the linkages between the personal and professional selfhoods of students on their journey to become professionals. It unpacks and challenges the quagmire of assumptions underpinning 'emotional resilience' as an outcome of 'successful students' and instead presents the ways in which emotional intelligence, self-awareness and congruence with one's own purpose make emotional resilience a learnt skill.
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This page is a summary of: Self-Identity, Embodiment and the Development of Emotional Resilience, The British Journal of Social Work, May 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bct083.
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