Strengths In Social Work

Focusing on strengths can positively impact our clients lives. As a social worker, it’s our duty to help seek strength in our clients. There are seven important principles of the strengths perspective that I think would be useful to seeking out a client’s strengths. Using these principles, can empower our client to achieve greatness. Asking very detail questions about the clients’ current situations, gives answers on how to better treat them. I like that, as a social worker we focus more on the greater good rather than the bad of our clients. We empower our clients to do greater good and to set goals that are small and achievable. We should push our clients to change right way because they will resist the help. After reading this article, I can conclude that we use the strengths perspective to foster hope by focusing
Never practice strengths-based perception to the extreme of ignoring dangerous situations, but do focus on creating a valid inventory of positive characteristics that are the foundation of the work you will do together. For example, if a couple is in therapy for fighting. We should say the strength in this situation is that both parents are still married, which means hope and that they still communicate with each other. We focus on the good in situation. Asking the client questions about the problem, equals finding the strength in the situation. Another example, is if a family refuses help from the government. We can say the strength in this case, is that the family believes in taking care of their own and they believe that they can make it if they try harder. Social workers are here to help not cause problems. Remind your client that they are brave, because they went out and found help. They want to change something about their lives and they made the step. They are powerful and it’s up to them to start