THE M TIVATIONAL STATE - A STRENGTHS-BASED APPROACH TO IMPROVING

The drawback of this is that it is fundamentally disempowering to begin a relational service with an exclusive focus on the deficits of the person seeking support, and the expertise and strengths of the worker and organisation offering support. [...] Building the caring capacity of families, and the sustainability of that care, and the inclusivity of the wider community As the pressures on public services are not evenly distributed, and the gap between the value they are creating for the general population and for groups and communities who experience societal inequalities like poverty and racism is widening, an element is the extent to which. [...] Organisations like Skills for Care and the Association of Directors of Adult Services (ADASS) have long called for better pay in the sector, raising the status of workers, and ‘professionalising’ the workforce through greater expectations of qualifications, but the economic case for this has never persuaded the Treasury of the return on investment. [...] This extension from the individual to the collective, brings notions of power into any serious discussion of strengths-based working, and addresses a frequent criticism of strengths-based public services, which is that they are overly individualistic and that a focus on the individual diverts attention away from addressing the structural causes of the issues that people face such as poverty and in. [...] 3 Licence Grant Subject to the terms and conditions of this Licence, Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) licence to exercise the rights in the Work as stated below: a to reproduce the Work, to incorporate the Work into one or more Collective Works, and to reproduce the Work as incorporated in the Collective W.