Field of Research: Social Work
Name of author) (s): Efrosini Kokaliari, Joan Berzoff, David S. Byers, Anan Fareed, Jake Berzoff-Cohen & Khalid Hreish
Title of published work: “Teaching Clinical Social Work under Occupation: Listening to the
Voices of Palestinian Social Work Students”
Name of Journal: Journal of Teaching in Social Work
Year: 2016
Volume: 36 (2)
Pages: 1-20
Publisher: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wtsw20/current
Abstract:
The authors were invited to teach clinical social work in the Palestinian West Bank. In order to teach, we designed a study exploring how 65 Palestinian social work students described the psychological and social effects of working under occupation. Students described social stressors of poverty, unemployment, lack of infrastructure, violence, imprisonment, separation of families, and severe constraints on travel. They identified depression, suicide, anxiety, and war-related trauma as emerging from these conditions. Many experienced the same psychosocial problems as their clients in coping with harassment and delays at checkpoints. Implications for teaching social work theory and practice are discussed.
Keywords: Occupation, pedagogy, teaching, trauma.
Contact info of the contact author (s):
Name: Khalid Hreish, PhD.
Address: Department of Social Work, Al-Quds University
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