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| All chapters conclude with “Conclusion” and/or #8220;Discussion Questions.” | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments. | |
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| The Philosophy and Principles of the Strengths Perspective | |
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| Dennis Saleebey, Introduction: Power in the People | |
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| The Strengths Perspective: Concepts and Principles | |
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| The Lexicon of Strengths | |
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| Principles of the Strengths Perspective | |
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| Some Preliminary Thoughts | |
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| Howard Goldstein, Victors or Victims? | |
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| Strength/Resilience and Pathology as Social Constructions | |
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| Implications for Social Work Practice | |
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| Strength and Resiliency | |
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| What Kind of Model of Practice for Social Work? | |
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| The Strengths Approach to Practice | |
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| Ann Weick and Ronna Chamberlain, Putting Problems in Their Place: Further Explorations in the Strengths Perspective | |
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| The Shape of Problems | |
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| Putting Strengths into Action | |
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| Key Strategies in Strengths-Based Practice | |
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| Dennis Saleebey, Introduction to the Strengths Approach to Practice | |
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| Some Beginning Observations about Strengths-Based Practice | |
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| What Are Strengths? | |
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| How Do You Find out about Strengths? | |
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| What Are Some of the Elements of Strengths-Based Practice? | |
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| Using the Strengths Approach with Individuals | |
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| Richard Rapp, The Strengths Perspective and Persons with Substance Abuse Problems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Strengths Perspective and Resistance to Treatment | |
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| Strengths-Based Case Management-Addressing Two Aspects of Substance Abuse Treatment | |
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| The Practice of Strengths-Based Case Management | |
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| Implementing a Strengths-Based Model | |
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| Impact on Treatment Philosophy | |
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| Impact on Case Managers | |
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| Impact on Clients | |
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| Potential Difficulties in Implementing the Perspective | |
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| Findings | |
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| Walter Kisthardt, The Strengths Model of Case Management: Principles and Helping Functions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Six Principles of the Strengths Model | |
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| Strategies That Promote Effective Engagement from the Consumer''s Perspective | |
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| The Strengths Assessment as Holistic Personal Inventory | |
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| Case Manager as Community Living Advocate | |
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| Summary | |
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| Becky Fast and Rosemary Chapin, The Strengths Model with Older Adults: Critical Practice Components | |
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| Conceptual Framework for Practice | |
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| Operationalizing the Conceptual Framework | |
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| Critical Practice Components of Effective Case Management | |
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| Personalized Assessment and Planning | |
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| Assertive Outreach to Natural Community Resources and Services | |
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| Emergency Crisis Planning | |
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| Ongoing Collaboration and Caregiving Adjustments | |
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| Utility of the Strengths Model in the Changing Long-Term Care Environment | |
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| Mary Bricker-Jenkins, Hidden Treasures: Unlocking Strengths in the Public Social Services | |
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| Competency-Based Practice: Prospects and Problems | |
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| Models, Methods, and Practice Systems | |
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| Theory for Practice | |
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| Ideology in Practice | |
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| An Alternative Approach to Practice Development | |
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| The Effective Public Service Practitioner: Supporting the Life World And Strengths of the Client | |
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| The Worker with the Client | |
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| The Worker in the Community | |
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| The Worker in the Workplace | |
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| The Worker Her/Himself | |
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| The Effective Worker in Public Social Services: Reprise | |
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| Gary E. Holmes, The Strengths Perspective and the Politics of Clienthood | |
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| The Notion of Clienthood | |
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| How We Make Clients from People | |
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| Story and Meaning | |
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| Organizational Culture | |
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| Clienthood and Group Membership: Two Examples | |
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| The Culturally Different | |
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| People with Disabilities | |
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| Strengths to Build Upon | |
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| Organized Culture | |
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| Professional Issues | |
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| Client Issues | |
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| The Strengths Perspective in the Environment: Groups and Community Development | |
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| Bonnie Benard, Fostering Resiliency in Children and Youth: Promoting Protective Factors in the School | |
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| Protective Factors | |
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| Profile of the Resilient Child | |
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| Protective Factors within the School | |
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| Caring and Support | |
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| High Expectations | |
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| Youth Participation and Involvement | |
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| Capitalizing on Protective Factors | |
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| What Role Can Social Workers Play? | |
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| W. Patrick Sullivan, On Strengths, Niches, and Recovery from Serious Mental Illness | |
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| Recovery: Individual, Community, and Cultural Dimensions | |
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| The Recovery Process: Observations from Key Informants | |
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| Sociocultural Forces and Recovery | |
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| Recovery and the Enriched Social Niche | |
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| Dennis Saleebey, Community Development, Group Empowerment, and Individual Resilience | |
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| Community Development: Emerging Ideas and Practices | |
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| Some Basic Ideas about Community Development | |
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| Coming Together: Community and Individual Resilience | |
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| Exemplars of Community Development Practice | |
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| Building Communities from Within | |
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| Health Realization/Community Empowerment | |
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| University of Kansas Partners in Public Housing | |
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| Yachdav | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Dennis Saleebey, The Strengths Perspective: Possibilities and Problems | |
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| Questions and Cautions about the Strengths Perspective | |
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| Of Paradigms and Prospects: Converging Lines of Thought | |
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| Resilience | |
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| Health and Wellness | |
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| Story and Narrative | |