USING ADVENTURE TO INCREASE THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF THE POOR

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  • Roelf Reyneke Department of Social Work, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15270/45-1-220

Abstract

In many instances the clients that social workers encounter are trapped by poverty and
experience feelings of powerlessness (Reyneke, 2000:384). In order to help them the social
worker should use his or her skills and knowledge to assist clients to reclaim the power that
they lost or possibly never possessed in the first place. Payne (2005:295) analyses
empowerment and argues that clients can gain power of decision and action over their own
lives by reducing the effect of social or personal blocks to exercising existing power, by
increasing their personal capacity and self-confidence to use power, and by transferring power
from groups and individuals. Reyneke (2000:383-384) shows that in order to empower people
in poor communities more effectively, their human potential needs to be developed. This may
be done through the development of their emotional intelligence (EQ). Techniques that reduce
the effect of social or personal blocks should be used in order to help them improve, amongst
other aspects, their personal capacity and self-confidence. This is especially important when
planning and implementing sustainable development projects where many of the participants
are from communities that experience powerlessness and are poor.

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2014-06-19

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Reyneke, R. (2014). USING ADVENTURE TO INCREASE THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF THE POOR. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 45(1). https://doi.org/10.15270/45-1-220

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