Discuss how you can use a risk and resiliency framework to understand how people manage
and experience stress. Read the GCU Statement on the Integration of Faith and Work. Explain
how a Social Worker with the Christian worldview might approach different styles of coping
and adaptation in relation to stress.
The application of a risk and resiliency framework is how individuals navigate and encounter
stress. This framework considers many factors that contribute to a person’s ability to cope with
stress and identifies both vulnerability and strength. By examining the many sources of stress,
we can get a better understanding of how people manage and respond to that stress.
By incorporating the principles of their faith into their work, a social worker with a Christian
worldview could address several stress-related coping methods. Stress can be viewed as an
opportunity for spiritual growth and to put their faith in God's, in addition to realizing the
importance of self-care and asking for support from others. They could also urge their clients to
join support or religious organizations and stress the value of community in promoting resilience.
