EDFE 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter --: Mindset
25 Apr 2017
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Hammond wayne & rob zimmerman. (2012) a strengths-based perspective. Embracing a strengths-based approach and its" implications for the crucial role of care provision and educational practice with children and youth. A strengths- based approach seeks to understand and develop the strengths and capabilities that can transform the lives of people in positive ways. Community or school intervention and prevention programs need to focus on risk reduction by helping those they serve to develop more effective coping strategies or alignment with prescribed support resources. However, policies and programs for youth that focus solely on preventing specific high-risk behaviour have showed little appreciable success. The emphasis on deficits or what a person is lacking leads to a cycle of focusing only on what needs to be repaired followed by a reliance on prescribed resources or assumed solutions. Rather than framing the person as the problem, one approaches individuals as being a affected by or robbed of opportunities by the problem.
