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Final Strenght Perspective in Social Work

The Strength-Based Perspective in social work is an approach that focuses on the strengths and resources of individuals, families, and communities rather than their problems. It emphasizes human potential, resilience, and collaboration, encouraging social workers to work with clients to identify and mobilize their strengths for empowerment and social justice. This perspective challenges traditional practices that view clients primarily through the lens of their deficits and encourages a more hopeful and collaborative helping relationship.

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Final Strenght Perspective in Social Work

The Strength-Based Perspective in social work is an approach that focuses on the strengths and resources of individuals, families, and communities rather than their problems. It emphasizes human potential, resilience, and collaboration, encouraging social workers to work with clients to identify and mobilize their strengths for empowerment and social justice. This perspective challenges traditional practices that view clients primarily through the lens of their deficits and encourages a more hopeful and collaborative helping relationship.

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STRENGTH -

BASED
PERSPECTIVE IN
SOCIAL WORK
STRENGTH BASED PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIAL
WORK
Strength Based Perspective is WHAT IS
not a form or model
intervention, nor a helping or
problem solving process.
STRENGHT BASED
PERSPECTIVE IF
NOT A MODEL OR A
HELPING PROCESS?
Strength Based Perspective is an
“APPROACH”, a way of looking at the
individual, family, group or community one is
working with.

It can serve as a framework for social work


practice.

In 1989, the faculty at Kansas University


(U.S.A.) were the first to formally name and
articulate the Strengths Perspective in the
“All people possess a wide range of talents,
Journal Social Work summarizing it main insight
abilities, capacities, skills, resources and
as:
aspiration…. A belief in human potential is tied
to the notion that people have untapped,
undetermined reservoirs of mental, physical,
emotional, social and spiritual abilities that can
be expressed. The presence of this capacity
for continued growth and heightened well-
being means that people must be accorded the
respects that this power deserves.”
Strength Based Perspective is also further
explained
Approach toas:
Social Work that puts the strength and resources of people, communities and
their environment, rather than their problems and pathologies at the center of helping
process.
 It was created as a corrective and transformative challenge to predominant practices and
policies that reduce people and their potential to deficits, pathologies, problems and
dysfunction.
 It emphasize the human capacity for resilience, resistance, courage, thriving and ingenuity.
 It champions the rights of individuals and communities to form and achieve their goals and
aspiration.
 Strength Perspective while acknowledging the difficulties that clients experience, it never
limits people to their traumas, problems, obstacle, illness or adversities. Rather, it address
them as challenges, opportunities and motivations for change.
 Thru this approach, Social Workers are enjoined to collaborate with clients, their families and
communities to discover and generates hopes and opportunities, to mobilize inner and
environmental strengths and resources, and to act for individuals ,and collective
empowerment and social justice. Thus, the helping relationship is characterized by
allegiance, emphathy, collaboration and focus on clients’ and communities’ aspirations and
goals.
Here, Hammond and Zimmerman
centered, instead of framing the person
as the problem (“problem is the problem,
the person is not the problem”), one
approaches individuals as being affected
by or robbed of opportunity by the
problem; that when the problem becomes
the starting point with an emphasis on
what are lacking in the client.
We do realized that there are countless
realities in the country where the starting
point for work with clients has to be the
clients problems – cases of natural
disasters, crisis situations and others –
where the provision of necessary material
assistance or some kind of immediate
intervention cannot wait for another day.
However, even in such situations, a
strengths- based approach would still be
appropriate.
MAIN PRINCIPLES OF STRENGTH BASED PERSPECTIVE
1.) For the social worker to recognize that every individual, group, family and community
has strengths and resources.

2.) Engage in systematic assessment of strengths and resources.

3.) Realize that while trauma, abuse, illness and struggle may be injurious, they may also be
sources of challenge and opportunity.

4.) Honor client set goals and aspiration for growth and change.

5.) Serve clients and communities interest through collaboration with them as directors of
their own helping process.

6.) Mobilize the strengths and resources of clients, relationships and environments.

7.) Link goals to specific doable actions that activates strengths and resources.

8.) Engage in social work with a sense of caring and hope.


Submitted by:
Anjie Marie T.
Amojedo
BSSW 2-B (2nd
courser)

Submitted to:

Jessamyn De Juan
Professor – Social Work Casework and
Practices

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