Social work education: Reflections during Covid-19 lockdown
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Export citationGlubb-Smith, K. J., & Roberts, T. (2020). Social work education: Reflections during Covid-19 lockdown. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 32(2), 46–48. https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol32iss2id742
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Teaching social work students in Aotearoa New Zealand during the Covid-19 crisis produced an acute awareness of the impact of lockdown levels 3 and 4 on student wellbeing. Students were required to rapidly adapt to study in a fully online environment without the face-to-face support of university campus life. Normal social and academic pressures were immediately intensified, with no immediate relief in sight. Student resilience was tested further due to multiple factors such as: suddenly reduced incomes, parenting during lockdown, caring for whānau both within and external to their “bubble”, and being unable to come together with loved ones to celebrate life events or mourn those who had passed.
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