Strength Based Approaches With Children, Young People And Families

During the past two months I have been at Hudson CMO, I learned how to assess children with behavioral and mental needs. Also, I experienced many Care Managers applied different behavior theories to a client care plan during meetings. This was a new experience for me, because I always read about assessing needs in a community or a person, but never did I experienced someone actually sitting with a child or family and evaluating a child and their condition. Lastly, during the child’s needs assessment meeting, the Care Managers would collect primary data from the child family to determine what would be a good care plan for the child.

After discussing the plan with the teacher, she agreed on working with me for the plan to be successful. The child strength is that he easily understands context and follow directions very well. Derrick can read books and understand what he have read however, he have a difficult time reading aloud during reading time. One strategy I implement to the teacher is let him pick a book he likes and ask to share it with the class. Ask him question after question about the story; also ask him to show pictures from the book. Encourage him to keep reading by following along and showing interest, limited how many times the teacher correct him. Strategies for increasing his vocabulary let the student use the computer to play words game and different

Helping them identify their own strengths and weaknesses is important. Encouraging them to develop confidence and focus goals on their strengths.

Strength based practice is an important tool for every youth worker. McCashen describes it as practice based on the person’s strengths (McCashen, 2005). These strengths can be things such as

Ms. Peters explained that strength-based therapy is used to help clients build positive qualities (C. Peters, personal communication, February 3, 2016). In application, the therapist helps the patient become aware of hidden strengths. The strength-based cognitive behavioral therapy (SBCBT) model can be used to develop positive human qualities like resilience, patience, . . . Patient-generated imagery and metaphors serve as powerful tools to remind the patient to employ the newly developed positive quality. Thus, it gives the patient the ability to cope and deploy their developed quality without referencing a problematic disorder like depression, anxiety, or anger issues. Therefore, it instills the strength to adapt and bounce back by using

The Rider is usually fixated on evaluating different aspects of problems and he would overanalyse the problem unless we direct him towards the solution. To direct the Rider, one of the best ways is to find the bright-spots in the problem. Bright-spots are defined as occurrences of over-performance and a solution-based approach, by examining bright-spots in problems, leads to an action-plan for change. The solution-based approach, which is focusing mostly on the potential solutions, contradicts totally with the traditional approach in which the therapist digs around for explanations. The therapist team invented the approach in the late 1970s believed that excavate the past would take them time rather than concentrate on developing the promising resolutions, since bid problems could be solved by small

Meaning that students could continue to struggle and feel inadequate in reaching their goals because they continue to work without their strengths. An example is a child with a weakness in math, but a love of drawing. We could either write a goal because he struggles with math or we could write a goal that uses his love of drawing to help him learn math. Example: Using drawings of objects, the student will solve math expression 8 out of 10 times. By allowing him to incorporate his passion into the lessons this student could grow and begin to understand math. Children need to know that teachers and parents want to create goals for them that will make them feel empowered and not insufficient.

This paper will discuss the solution focused therapy and how it allows in clients to focus on a right now solution rather than trying to figure out what the problem is with the patient. Solution focus looks to solve problems not find the when, why and who of the problem. Instead,the counselor will work on activities that are helping the patient’s life at the exact moment. The purpose is to help the client discover greatness about him or herself not to tear them down  or make them feel worse than they felt when they came to you. Solutions-Focused Therapy.

Developmentally appropriate practice as already influenced my career in relations to working with children. I have worked with special needs children from different cultural backgrounds for several years and have always been able to modify any work presented to me to that of the child’s ability plus adding a little more challenge to the work at hand after they have mastered the basics of the work presented.

Partnership between families and childhood professionals plays a fundamental role in enhancing children’s learning and well-being. This partnership requires both parties to assume responsibility for exchanging information, sharing enquiries regarding the child and engage in effective communication where they recognise and take into account each other’s perspectives and ideas. Through this trusting relationship, the knowledge gained will allow the childhood professionals to better comprehend each child’s background, relationships and interactions in order to give confidence, support and provide experiences in purposeful manners to the child.

An explicit goal of most mentoring programs for at-risk youth is to instill an orientation to individual achievement, and to provide the support to make individual achievement possible. This strategy is designed to empower the children, while placing the responsibility to grow within their control. Our program offers a structured, strength-based service to youth for the purpose of supporting, coaching and training youth in age-appropriate pro-social behaviors. Features of the service include coaching on interpersonal communication, problem-solving and conflict resolution, and relating appropriately to family, peers, teachers and others, pursuant to a behavioral health treatment plan. The design of this evidence-based model will provide the

In this assignment, the client was dealing with a recent interaction between her boyfriend and herself that brought up issues pertaining to how to assess and support the presenting problem that the client is faced with. A strengths-based intervention provides a way for the client/worker relationship coming together to provide responses and a way to overcome the issues that are presented. The understanding of a strengths based approach brings out other theories that can be similar. One of these include the problem solving approach but for the purpose of this intervention, it is focused on the strengths-based aspects. I believe that this intervention may be used in the client’s best interest because it focuses on positive aspects of the individual

A second way a developmental professional can develop a nurturing relationship between adults and children is that of reflecting and discussing what they observed in which discussion can determine “How might we support what the infants are doing?” (Lally, 2006, p.119) thus leading

!The role of a family educator is to focus on relationship building between members of the group while providing support, guidance, advocacy, encouragement, and affirmation (Campbell & Palm, 2004). In an attempt to accomplish each of the goals I would approach leading a parenting group from a strengths based approach. According to Chang & Ritter (2004), it is essential for an educator to be aware of their client’s worldview and cultural background to understand the concerns of the parents. In this particular group, differences in members’ worldviews may exist due to cultural issues grounded in their race, gender, ethnicity, and even where they fall within the lower middle-class socioeconomic class. After exploring similarities and differences, I would focus the group on the strengths each member brings to the group that will create an environment of trust and growth.

First, learning to me is a highly complex process, whether you are an A student or a student that requires special assistance. Taking the practical approach is best with my personality and mannerism in educating students. Teach the way they learn. “A strength-based school practices positive niche construction with nerodiverse students is essential to support inclusive practices” (Armstrong 296, 2010).