TEST 1 Flashcards
Strengths vs. Deficits: Comparison in Approach
Problem-oriented or Deficits-based approach
what is the PURPOSE ?
Purpose: the betterment of problems through assessment and prescribed interventions.
(based on what is actually wrong not their strengths)
Strengths vs. Deficits: Comparison in Approach
Problem-oriented or Deficits-based approach
what is the FOCUS ?
Focus: what is wrong with the person? Deficits, illness, distress, disability, poor functioning, or other negative states
Strengths vs. Deficits: Comparison in Approach
Problem-oriented or Deficits-based approach
what is the PROCESS ?
Process: develop goals and interventions based on the creation of a problem list. May use a persons strengths to help fix the problem, but the nature of the helping is defined by problems.
Strengths vs. Deficits: Comparison in Approach
Strengths or Capacities-based approach
what is the PURPOSE:
Purpose: help people reach their goals and aspirations.
Strengths vs. Deficits: Comparison in Approach
Strengths or Capacities-based approach
what is the FOCUS
Focus: what people want their lives to be like and what resources and strengths they have or need to get there.
Strengths vs. Deficits: Comparison in Approach
Strengths or Capacities-based approach
what is the PROCESS ?
Process: Goals and interventions are driven by aspirations identified by the person. Success judged by whether those goals are met.
Why should RT be strengths-based?
1.)Recreation therapy is a profession that naturally lends itself to a strengths-based approach
History
Developing field
Well-being through leisure
2.) It is a profession that intersects several human service delivery systems: recreation, health, education, community services, etc.
8 Principles to Guide Strengths-Based Practice
Every individual, group, family and community has strengths
Difficulties are also sources of challenge and opportunity
We do not know the upper limits of a participants capacity to grow and change – only the participant knows
Collaboration (not expert domination) is the basis for our interaction with participants
Every environment is full of resources
Context matters
Hopefulness matters
Strengths can be nurtured – thus, they must be assessed, planned, focused on, and evaluated
Biological and psychological support for the strengths approach
- Positive Psychology movement
- Neuroscience
- > New research to support that brain functioning also provides concrete evidence that a positive orientation is far more effective in creating positive growth and change than is a focus on fixing deficits.
What is Positive Psychology?
-> positive psychology is well being, that the gold standard for measuring well- being is flourishing and that the goal of positive psychology is to increase flourishing
->Positive psychology is focused on what makes individuals and communities flourish rather than languish.
Flourishing : ‘a state of positive mental health; to thrive, to prosper and to fare well in endeavors free of mental illness, filled with emotional vitality and function positively in private and social realms
ex. Facebook, instagram
‘Positive Psychology’
Concentrates on positive experiences at three time points: what are they ?
The PAST : focus on concepts like
The PRESENT: focus on concepts like
The FUTURE: focus on concepts like
Positive Psychology
Separates subject area into 3 ‘nodes’:
what are the 3 nodes?
Subjective node: positive experiences and states across time
Individual node: characteristics of the ‘good person’ (talent, wisdom, courage)
Group node: positive institutions, citizenship and communities
3 tasks to general psychology population prior to World War II:
- cure mental illness
- enhance the lives of the normal population; and
- study geniuses
what year was Psychology as usual
pre- 1998
GREEKS (6th Century BC)
Aristotle: work argues that although pleasure may arise from engaging with activities that are virtuous, it is not the sole aim of humanity.
