Resilience and Covid-19: action plans and strategies in a military community

ABSTRACT

A pandemic takes a toll on emotional health and tests psychological resilience. In particular, interpersonal interactions in military communities have been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. The military must focus resilience training away from the individual and towards the community. This study investigated the practical assistance rendered to soldiers in aid of their mental health. Specifically, this study analysed the development and implementation of a teaching action plan aimed at improving the psychological resilience of soldiers. The plan was based on the community counselling model, and it serves as a reference for social workers, especially in their conduct of educational programmes.

KEYWORDS:

• Resilience
• community counselling model
• military community
• mental health
• cadets

Disclosure statement

The authors declare there are no conflict of interests.

Data availability statement

Data sharing not applicable – no new data generated

Additional information

Funding

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Notes on contributors

Pao-Lung Chiu

Pao-Lung Chiu is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Work at the Republic of China National Defense University. His areas of research interest include military mental health, military social work education, resilience training, and military life course.

Yi-Ming Yu

Yi-Ming Yu is a professor and program director of political science in the National Defense University of Taiwan. His work has appeared in Social Science Quarterly and Political Research Quarterly. His research interests include Moral psychology, Corruption, Military professional ethics and Soldier value.