What does strengths-based actually mean in an assessment?
Describing what the client, their family and their environment bring, alongside the difficulties, and building the plan from both. It does not mean minimizing risk. An assessment that omits genuine safety concerns to sound positive is a serious error.
This comes up on Social Work Practice Support, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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