Strengths Based Approaches

Aims:

Strength based practice is about focusing on what a person can do, rather than what they cannot do. It’s enshrined within the Care Act and is a move away from considering needs to explore and maximise the person’s skills, relationships and resources. Engaging with the person at the centre, the practitioner’s role is to support the person to achieve their outcomes.

This course aims to help those engaged in reablement to identify and promote the strengths of individuals with whom they work in order to ensure that people who we support have the maximum opportunity to work towards fulfilling their full potential.

Objectives:

This will be achieved by:

• Exploring the values underpinning strengths based working so that practitioners can feel confident that they are enabling people to fulfil their potential.
• Looking at the relationship of strengths based approaches to Mental Capacity and The Care Act.
• Examining the skilled use of self by the worker to facilitate strengths based conversations.
• Understanding the focus on outcomes rather than outputs.
• Considering the role of accurate assessment and the setting of realistic, achievable goals in the reablement relationship.
• Examining motivational factors and that which can inhibit or enable people fulfilling their potential.
• Recognising that reablement needs to be person centred and that it cannot be formulaic.

Outcomes:

By the end of the session, participants will be able to identify their role in promoting and embracing strengths based practice so that care and support can be rooted in a person centred perspective of the individual’s abilities. This can then be drawn upon to help the person focus on the outcomes which matter to them most.