A social worker with more than 20 years of experience reflects on how a strengths-based approach empowered a mother overwhelmed by despair to gain confidence and move forward Photo by Lumos ...
It takes practice and confidence to be good at asking questions, but practitioners should always try and find better ways of having conversations Photo: Krasimira Nevenova/Fotolia This article ...
When I ask large audiences of practitioners and helpers: Who believes that they are “strengths-based” in their work? Most hands shoot up. But, there is little consistency in what each person means by ...
When I became an instructional coach, I focused almost exclusively on closing the big gaps in a teacher’s practices. I thought we needed to start with the areas of greatest need. In addition, deficits ...