The Strengths Approach – Expanded Second Edition (Digital Book)

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This seminal text is now available in a digital format!

The Strengths Approach describes the distinctive style of human service delivery known as ‘strengths-based’ practice. Pivotal to this approach is equal partnership and respect between people, or ‘power-with’. Also fundamental is the belief that everyone has strengths and that mobilising and sharing strengths is the key to building hope and creating positive change.

Author, Wayne McCashen, provided training and consultancy services in the strengths approach to hundreds of organisations and individuals. In a remarkably clear and synthesised articulation, this book gathers together the principles, beliefs, skills, tools and frameworks that help create effective, socially-just ways of working with people.

Since its first publication in 2005, The Strengths Approach has gained an international reputation. It is as an essential text in many university courses and is sourced by government departments, schools, and organisations adopting strengths approach frameworks and policy as best practice.

Now in digital format, this revised and expanded second edition contains substantial new material throughout including practice stories, reflective exercises, expanded discussion of strengths, social inclusion, strengths-based questions, supervision, client-owned recording and much more.

The new edition will put ‘parallel practice’ squarely on the strengths agenda, challenging organisations to embed strengths-based, power-with practices at every level of their operations.

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Innovative Resources wishes to recognise and honour Wayne McCashen’s (decd. 2018) significant contributions to social work and the broader helping professions, particularly his extensive advocacy for strengths-based approaches to working with individuals, families, and communities.