The strengths of families from culture to culture, when compared to each other, are remarkably similar and give us common ground around the world upon which to unite and develop mutual understanding. Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives: Strong Families Around the World, provides a conceptual framework for global family strengths, discussing the diverse strengths and challenges that families face regardless of location. This book presents 43 expert authors from 18 countries in all seven major areas in the world who explain what it means to be a family in the context of their countr
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Desistance theory and forensic practice / Andrew Day & Mark Halsey -- Contributions to desistance research from developmental psychopathology / Keith Burt, Virginia Peisch & Elyse Rosenberg -- Contributions to desistance research and practice from positive psychology / Yilma Woldgabreal & Andrew Day -- Risk and strength variables in recidivism-desistance prediction research with applied assessment practices : toward a nomenclature for their effects / Calvin M. Langton, Gabriela D.B. Sheinin & James R. Worling -- Questions about strengths in treatment work in forensic practice / Calvin M. Langton, Daniel Pillersdorf, Meredith J. Awrey & James R. Worling -- Strengths in the risk-needs-responsivity model of offender assessment and rehabilitation / J. Stephen Wormith & Kayla E. Truswell -- Desistance from conduct problems during childhood : potential explanatory factors and assessment / Anna-Karin Andershed & Henrik Andershed -- Assessment of protective factors in youth justice settings / Chi Meng Chu, Xuexin Xu, & Dongdong Li -- Factors related to desistance from sexual recidivism / James R. Worling, Toronto, Canada, & Calvin M. Langton -- Women's desistance from crime : the role of individual, relational and socio-structural factors over time / Anne-Marie Slotboom, Elanie Rodermond, & Jan Hendriks -- Factors predicting desistance from intimate partner violence perpetration in adults / Patti A. Timmons Fritz & Jewels Adair -- Factors predicting desistance from criminal and aggressive behavior in mentally disordered individuals / Michiel de Vries Robbé -- Factors predicting desistance from criminal behavior and aggression in adult offenders : a critical review / Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Rebecca Schiedel, Victoria Pietruszka, Jaymes Fairfax-Columbo, & Shelby Arnold -- Evidence-based delinquency prevention for children exhibiting conduct problems / Dustin A. Pardini & David A. Hawes -- Strengths-based approaches to address criminal behaviors in adolescents / Alan Carr, Dan Hartnett, & Jane Meleady -- Strength-based treatments for adults and juveniles who have been sexually abusive : Aareview / W. L. Marshall, & L.E. Marshall -- Strengths-based approaches to the treatment of incarcerated women and girls / Gina Fedock & Stephanie S. Covington -- Strengths-based batter intervention programs for intimate partner violence / Kristin W. Bolton, Jon C. Hall, Peter Lehmann, Mercedes Wilkins, Catheleen Jordan -- Strength-based approaches with offenders with mental illness / Tonia L. Nicholls, Karen Petersen, Lindsey Kendrick-Koch, Barinder Singh, Hayley Ross, & Christopher Webster -- The good lives model : next steps in research and practice / Sophie R. Dickson & Gwenda M. Willis.
Sixty-eight per cent of looked after children in the UK are in foster care. Children in foster care benefit from continuity. Sometimes, due to worker turnover and workloads, that continuity comes not from a social worker but from a foster carer. Thus, children in foster care can develop significant attachments to their carers, who are likely to have a valuable role to play in long-term planning for a child. A strengths approach to fostering social work places value on the input of carers as experts on a child, but the social work research literature reveals limited information about the use of such an approach in supervising foster carers. This article by Tim Odell builds on recent writing and suggests that the strengths perspective could be of value in working with foster carers, just as it has been in other settings. A case study examines the process of moving on for one child and how social workers and carers worked together to take a creative approach for a child with a history of multiple placements. This case study illustrates elements of a strengths-based approach. Suggestions for further application of such a model with foster carers are made, and areas for further practice research identified.
This book examines strengths-based approaches to understanding and celebrating diverse populations. It centers on understanding the ways in which minoritized group identities and membership in such communities can serve as sources of strength. The volume explores the varied dimensions of minoritized identities and challenges traditional concepts of what it means to be resilient. It presents research-based and innovative strategies to understand more thoroughly the role of resilience and strengths in diverse populations and families. The book addresses the need to consider affirmative, liberation, and strengths-based models of resilience. Key areas of coverage include: Families of transgender and gender diverse people.The role of chosen family in LGBTQ communities.Latinx LGBTQ families.The Indian Child Welfare Act.Celebration of Black girl voices.Homeschooling as a resilience factor for Black families.Black identity and resilience related to mental health.Black resilience in families. Identity as Resilience in Minoritized Communities is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, clinical child and school psychology, cultural psychology, social work, and public health as well as education policy and politics, behavioral health, psychiatry, and all related disciplines
This textbook offers students and practitioners an accessible introduction to strengths-based approaches in Social Work and Social Care practice. Covering the theory and research in support of these approaches, and packed full of case studies, the book will allow readers to develop a critical understanding of how strengths-based approaches work, and how they can be successfully applied in order to improve outcomes for people with lived experience. Covering the five main models of strengths-based practice, the text presents international research and evidence on the efficacy of each approach, enabling students and practitioners to apply the benefits in their own social work practice. The guide features the perspectives of people with lived experience throughout and includes the following key learning features: case studies of best practice; points for practice: succinct tips for practitioners and students on practice placement; further reading list and resources; glossary.
