Taking a strengths based approach to the promotion of recovery involves looking at people with mental health problems with fresh eyes and noticing appreciatively qualities which were previously seen as only peripheral to the recovery journey.
As with all approaches and perspectives it has assumptions, beliefs and values which underpin practice and this paper will provide a basis for considering the implications of these values and assumptions in terms of how these can assist or hinder recovery. A strengths based perspective does not deny that people can suffer appalling and prolonged mental distress; this proposition is accepted as a human given.
A strengths based practitioner accepts this reality and offers compassionate empathic support whilst being vigilant and mindful of other qualities that coexist beside and within human suffering.
As with all approaches and perspectives it has assumptions, beliefs and values which underpin practice and this paper will provide a basis for considering the implications of these values and assumptions in terms of how these can assist or hinder recovery. A strengths based perspective does not deny that people can suffer appalling and prolonged mental distress; this proposition is accepted as a human given.
A strengths based practitioner accepts this reality and offers compassionate empathic support whilst being vigilant and mindful of other qualities that coexist beside and within human suffering.
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