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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shankardass, Mala Kapur

Titel

From Vulnerability to Resilience: How do Elderly Holocaust Survivors Living in a Nursing Home in Israel, Cope with the Threat of COVID-19? A Group Therapy Case Study

Ist Teil von

• Handbook on COVID-19 Pandemic and Older Persons, 2023, p.189-207

Ort / Verlag

Singapore: Springer Singapore Pte. Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In addition to being an external event, the COVID-19 outbreak is a psychological event. As such, it elicits associations, memories, and metaphors around which threat perceptions are organized. These processes are likely to be especially significant among individuals who have experienced traumatic life events. In this chapter, Holocaust survivors’, living in a nursing home in a central city in Israel reactions to group psychotherapy during the Pandemic, are discussed. Themes from two timepoints demonstrate the participants’ shift in self-perceptions—from vulnerable, helpless victims of the COVID-19 threat and its multiple and complex implications, to a more resilient, resourceful, and efficacious self-perception. The case study presented in this chapter supports previous research studies, which recommend encouraging a strength-based approach when working with survivors, in order to foster better adaptation and more effective coping. This approach is especially important during times of uncertainty and adversity.