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Practicing from strengths perspective requires that we shift the way we think about, approach, and relate to our clients. The strengths perspective has had a profound impact on the lexicon of social work writing since its first tentative acceptance into the literature. A review of the literature on social work practice reveals that in many cases the strengths perspective has been reduced to the social worker finding and listing what they see as the client’s strengths. The strengths perspective is inherently at odds with the typical medical or pathological models of social work practice. The strengths perspective sees the social worker as no longer the sole expert who identifies the problem, names it, and then applies a set manner of techniques/theories to dislodge the pathological condition. The strengths perspective does not provide specific techniques to use when working with the person, family, group or community. |
