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Traditionally, mental health professionals have tended to focus on symptoms, illness and dysfunction. Strengths based practice uses clients' skills and personal strengths as the platform to engage with them. Using this as a background, this paper explores the emerging strengths-based perspectives in mental health field. It examines how strengths based principles can be applied in specific fields of mental health practice and specially in designing strengths based approach to recovery as each person's journey of recovery is unique. In this context, the paper also examines how practitioners can enhance client's capacities and instil a sense of hope, and empower the families and careers through this journey. Questions to be addressed include: what are some of the tools that social workers can use to assess the skills, competencies, and characteristics of individuals and families? How can Strength-based practice framework provide social work practitioners a reliable and valid way to engage with individuals and also in supporting them in their individual journey towards recovery.
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Papers in Strengths Based Practice
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978-81-8424-810-4
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Allied Publishers
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New Delhi, India
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