Strengths Based

Question 1

T/F - strengths based originated in case management with people with severe mental health now developed within other populations

Answer 1

True

Question 2

T/F - evolution comes from awareness of helping professions focus on pathology, deficits, problems, abnormalities, victimization and disorder (our natural inclination is to look at someone who is struggling is to look at their problems)

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The what? is known to be a deficit mode) and associated business profit

Answer 3

Medical model

Question 4

Elements of the Strengths Perspective do not ignore what?

Answer 4

the problems

Question 5

A different lens means you want to see their capacities, talents, competencies, possibilities, visions, values and hopes what?

Answer 5

FIRST

Question 6

Elements of the Strengths Perspective include an understanding of what resources? of the individual, family or community

Answer 6

internal and external resources

Question 7

It’s not just being good at hockey its what?

Answer 7

it’s strengths on a deeper level / qualities i.e. commitment (why are you good at it, what qualities are you displaying)

Question 8

T/F - Focusing on strengths is an overarching way to approach the helping process

Answer 8

true

Question 9

T/F - Strengths-based language replaces deficit based language

Answer 9

true

Question 10

Ideas of res, rebo, capa, pos, and transf are important

Answer 10

resilience, rebound, capability, possibility and transformation

Question 11

Words have the power to what?

Answer 11

elevate or destroy

Question 12

Strengths include: a, a, b, t and r

Answer 12

abilities, attributes, behaviors, thoughts and resources

Question 13

T/F - Strengths based unites multiple mid-level theoretical constructs, and provides a unique problem-solving framework.

Answer 13

true

Question 14

Social workers should help clients to what? strengths to aid in recovery, empower clients and build resilience

Answer 14

leverage

Question 15

4 key elements to the strengths perspective are what?

Answer 15

Resilience
Hope
Empowerment
Self-Determination

Question 16

What is the capacity to bounce back or recover from stressful situations

Answer 16

Resilience

Question 17

With resilience we want to increase and decrease what?

Answer 17

increase protective factors (to increase the strength) to reduce the risk

Question 18

What can be internal (coping strategies) or external (supportive people in one’s life)

Answer 18

Protective factors (part of resilience)

Question 19

T/F - Research on developmental resilience challenges three dominant concepts about development:

There are fixed, inevitable, critical and universal stages of development

Childhood trauma inevitably leads to adult psychopathology, children can overcome trauma with protective factor

There are social conditions, interpersonal relationships and institutional arrangements that inevitably lead to problems in everyday functioning

Answer 19

true

Question 20

a significant protective factor is a what?

Answer 20

steadfast, caring relationship with at least one adult

Question 21

What is the belief that good things, rather than bad things, will happen

Answer 21

hope

Question 22

T/F - There are two components of hope:

1) the internal belief that one can create a pathway to achieve personal goals
2) the internal belief that one can start and maintain progress toward one’s goals once the pathway is created

Answer 22

true

Question 23

When hope is gone for a client they feel what?

Answer 23

feel pessimistic, depressed

Question 24

hope is a big what?

Answer 24

Strength

Question 25

What is when someone uses their resources to gain and use power to achieve goals, improve and control life circumstances, and positively contribute to one’s community

Answer 25

Empowerment

Question 26

What becomes the identification of ways in which an individual can nurture their own well-being

Answer 26

empowerment

Question 27

what is an individual’s right to make their own decisions, to actively participate in the helping process, and to lead lives of their own choosing.

Answer 27

Self determination

Question 28

What is a belief is that individuals will experience growth when they are in situations that support autonomy, competence and positive relationships

Answer 28

self-determination

Question 29

Personal q and s are sometimes created during trials and tribulations

Answer 29

qualities and strengths

Question 30

T/F - cultural and personal stories and narratives are not important sources of strength

Answer 30

false

Question 31

People who have overcome abuse and trauma often have what? buried under shame

Answer 31

“survivor’s pride”

Question 32

how would you describe risk factors?

More risk = more ?

Answer 32

more risk factors = more struggle,

risk factors enhance likelihood of adaptive struggles and developmental outcomes

Question 33

increase likelihood of rebounding from trauma and stress is what factor?

Answer 33

protective factor

Question 34

T/F - Goal is to decrease risk and increase protective factors

Answer 34

true

Question 35

Other factors include:

Community - considered over the past few years and can either be supportive or detrimental

Health and Wellness – mind-body connection, restorative power

Beliefs and Emotions – have impact on well-being

Health Realization and Community Empowerment – reconnect people to the health in themselves so then can then bring health to others in community

Answer 35

true

Question 36

8 Tenets of Strengths Based Practice include what?

hint GO, AS, LC&ES, HI, A2C,C, T/ASOC&O, C2G&C

1) goal oriented
2) assessing strengths (avoid problem focus)
3) leverage client and environmental strengths for goal attainment
4) hope inducing
5) authority to choose
6) collaboration
7) trauma/adversity sources of challenge and opportunity
8) individual’s capacity to grow and change

Answer 36

1) goal oriented (What are their goals)
2) contains a means of assessing strengths (avoid problem focus)
3) sees the environment as rich in resources and explicit methods are used to leverage client and environmental strengths for goal attainment
4) the therapeutic relationship is hope inducing
5) the provision of meaningful choices is central and individuals have the authority to choose
6) collaboration with clients is essential to the helping process
7) underlying assumption that trauma/adversity etc. may be harmful but they may also be sources of challenge and opportunity
8) assumption that the worker does not know the upper limits of individual’s capacity to grow and change

Question 37

T/ F - Strengths Assessment Questions are

What is the individual doing well?
What strengths are already present?
What positive goals does the individual have for their future?
What resources already exist?
What strengths can be leveraged in the current situation?
What barriers to overcome to achieve the goal?

Answer 37

true

Question 38

T/F - When using a strengths assessment, you don’t fall into the trap of using the assessment to find which strengths are lacking and then only focus on trying to develop or fix the “lacked” strengths.

Answer 38

false, you can fall into that trap

Question 39

T/F - when conducting a strengths assessment the worker must focus on what the individual is doing well, what strengths are identified as already being present, and what positive goals the individual has for their future.

Answer 39

true

Question 40

What are 3 Criticisms of the Strengths Perspective

Answer 40

Positive thinking in disguise
Simply reframes deficits and misery
Ignores reality

Question 41

T/F - Strengths based practice promote individual well-being and reduce social problems by building upon the strengths possesses by clients (e.g., capabilities, skills) and by the client systems in which clients interact (e.g., assets, resources).

Answer 41

true

Question 42

Strengths-based practice is a metatheory

Answer 42

true

Question 43

what emphasizes the role of strengths to both realize life goals and reduce problems and/or symptoms

Hint = SB practice

Answer 43

strengths based practice

Question 44

By focusing on the strengths of the individual and the what?, the social worker can assess many aspects of social phenomena, including their inherent complexity and connectedness.

Answer 44

environment

Question 45

T/F - Strengths-based social workers reflect authentic warmth; listen well; affirm the client’s perspective, hopes, and capacities to overcome any difficulties; and, whenever possible, share and generate power with their client.

Answer 45

true

Question 46

Interventions are deliberate attempts to change the state of a P & E?

Answer 46

state of a person or an environment

Question 47

T/F - Intervention planning should not be done in partnership with the client and/or the client’s caregivers.

Answer 47

false