Topic
Working from people's strengths, resources and hopes.
14 resources
For Counsellors and therapists
A practitioner guide with question prompts for externalising conversations: naming the problem, mapping its effects, noticing times it has less influence and exploring preferred…
Narrative approaches · Strengths-based practice
For Social workers
A visual map and table for exploring a family's strengths, stressors and supports across relationships, health, money, housing, work or school, community and culture.
Family systems · Person in environment
For Counsellors and therapists
A visual map for building hope around a goal, with pathways to get there, obstacles and alternative routes, sources of motivation and people who…
Goal setting · Hope
For Counsellors and therapists
A client-led timeline for mapping important life chapters, turning points, strengths and supports, with a trauma-informed note that the client chooses what to include.
Life story work · Strengths-based practice
For Community services and case workers
A strengths-based conversation guide for case workers to explore what parents want help with, covering routines, behaviour, wellbeing, practical needs and preferred supports.
Parenting support · Referral and case planning
For Social workers
A strengths-based plan with parents and caregivers covering their strengths, their child's needs, goals, supports and who can help, focused on what the family…
Family systems · Parenting support
For Allied health and multidisciplinary teams
A practical guide to respectful, person-centred language in conversations and records, with common phrases to rethink, alternatives, and guidance on asking people how they…
Documentation and record keeping · Respectful language
For Counsellors and therapists
A visual map of a client's resilience resources, including inner strengths, people, practices, places and meaning, used to plan how to draw on them…
Coping strategies · Resilience
For Counsellors and therapists
A daily log for noticing three kinds of evidence of worth: things I did, ways I showed kindness and qualities others appreciate, with a…
Self-esteem · Strengths-based practice
For Positive behaviour support practitioners
A profile recording a person's strengths, talents, skills, interests and what others appreciate about them, to shift focus from problems to possibilities in support…
Person-centred planning · Strengths profiles
For Counsellors and therapists
A strengths-focused reflection on how clients have got through difficult times before, the skills, people and values that helped and how these can help…
Coping strategies · Strengths-based practice
For Youth workers
Twenty-four strength cards for young people with three activities: choosing personal strengths, spotting strengths in others and telling a strengths story.
Self-esteem · Strengths-based practice
For Social workers
A practitioner guide for exploring strengths across personal, relational, community and cultural areas, with a question bank and a template for linking strengths to…
Intake and needs identification · Strengths-based practice
For Social workers
A guide for social workers writing case notes that are accurate and strengths-based, recording the person's voice, strengths, context and plans, with examples and…
Documentation and record keeping · Respectful language
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