strengths perspective what’s the big deal?. introduction thank you
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Strengths Perspective What’s The Big Deal?
Introduction
Thank You
Introduction
A BApplicability
Limitations
Challenge for SWP in SG
Introduction
Does it always help?
Is it practical?
Is it not fake if I just cannot see the positives and strengths in the situation?
What if someone has no strengths at all?
Do I have to be a optimist?
What if my agency context challenges the SP?
Introduction
A BApplicability
Limitations
Challenge for SWP in SG
Introduction
Communities
Principles In Practice
Saleebey’s Principles
Every Individual, Group, Family and Community Has Strengths
Trauma and Abuse, Illness and Struggle May Be Injurious, but They May also Be Sources of Challenge and Opportunity
Assume That You Do Not Know the Upper Limits of the Capacity to Grow and Change and Take Individual, Group, and Community Aspirations Seriously
We Best Serve Clients by Collaborating with Them
Every Environment is Full of Resources
Caring, Caretaking and Context
Communities
SP in Management & Agency Culture
SP in Supervision
SP with Clients
Introduction
Using the Principles reflect on the following
How have you seen or experienced the SP operationalized in your practice/context?
If not yet operationalized, how do you see it being done. Your ideas, suggestions, thoughts, dreams…
Flourishing of Strengths
Strengths Perspective Theory
Philosophical InventoryDo you believe that positive change is possible
with the most “difficult” and “challenging” people?
What do you do to promote change?
How do you work with others with the belief that they cannot change?
If you do not believe that the people with whom you work can change, what keeps you in the field?
Why the struggle?
Consequences to challenging current paradigm
Exigencies of getting work done
Sense of Powerlessness (Learned Helplessness)
What is it?
The Strengths Perspective offers a set of guiding principles that shape the lens for viewing human behaviour in a very different way. The fundamental premise is that individuals will do better in the long run when they are helped to identify, recognize and use the strengths and resources in themselves and their environment.
What is it?
The Strengths Model “allows us to see possibilities rather than problems, options rather than
constraints, wellness rather than sickness. And after being seen, achievement can occur”.
(pg 34, Rapp & Goscha, 2006)
Conditions for ChangeFeeling safe and confident
A sense of ownership and responsibility
Validation of people’s feelings and experience
Recognition of and emphasis on people’s strengths and capabilities
A sense of hope
Sufficient motivation
Openness to other truths, meanings and possibilities
What are strengths?
Almost anything can be considered a strength under certain circumstances
Dennis Saleebey, 2006.
What are strengths?
What people have learned about themselves and others
Personal qualities, traits and virtues
What people know about the world around them
Talents people have
Cultural and personal stories and lore
Pride
The Community
Spirituality
STheoryWhat is it?
The Strengths Perspective is about HOPE
Strengths Perspective Practice
Tool 1 Strength Cards
Tool 2 5 Column Approach
Tool 3 Ecomaps with Strengths
Tool 4 Own Attitude
Tool 5 Life’s Impossible Challenges
Strengths Perspective Practice Reflections
SP in Professional & Agency Setting
What Prevents?
What Promotes?
Introduction
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Limitations
Challenge for SWP in SG
Contribute to the literature
of SP