A strength-based approach to patient care.
A strength-based approach to patient care.
A clinician focuses on their patient’s humanity by asking them to highlight their unique strengths and skills, not just their diseases or problems.
Things to consider.
When utilized appropriately, strengths-based care encourages health care providers to get the full picture of a patient's story. This facilitates personalized, whole-person care that does not ignore the sociopolitical context of where they work and live.
While you may remind clients of various strengths and resources they have, the best approach is to give them space to identify their protective factors independently while offering collaboration as needed.
What are some of your own strengths when facing difficult circumstances? In what ways have power and privilege, or disadvantage, helped shape these strengths?