Saturday, April 17, 2010

Social Workers strength based research topics?

I am looking for any ideas for a group project where we have to use the strength prospective in Social Work.

Social Workers strength based research topics?
The strengths perspective is a new focus in social work today, but until now little has been done to move this focus beyond the realm of theoretical discourse. In Resiliency Enhancement, Elaine Norman and her colleagues bridge the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement—strengthening an individual's ability to function competently even in the presence of major life stressors—enables social workers to put the strengths perspective successfully into practice for their clients.





Strengths-based Practice: This is based on client and environmental strengths rather than on problems or pathologies. There are five principles of the strengths perspective that Poulin summarizes from Dennis Saleebey's The Strengths Perspective In Social Work Practice. These are:





1. Every individual, group, family, and community has strengths.





2. Trauma, abuse, illness and struggle may be injurious, but they may also be sources of challenge and opportunity.





3. Assume that you do not know the upper limits of the capacity to grow and change, and take individual, group, and community aspirations seriously.





4. We best serve clients by collaborating with them.





5. Every environment is full of resources.

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