Strengths Perspective What’s The Big Deal?. Introduction Thank You.

Strengths Perspective What’s The Big Deal?

Introduction

Thank You

Introduction

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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

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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?

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Challenge for SWP in SG

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