Strength Theory Perspective Theory

Assignment #2: Strengths perspective theory paper.

The strengths perspective theory as discussed by Dennis Saleebey influenced in my understanding about the power of clients believing in themselves, being fighters , and maintaining a sort of hope with practitioners and the system to learn how to help themselves and improve their quality of lives.Saleebey describes the perspective theory as an relevant approach to guide clients identifying their strengths to achieve their goals. Due to Saleebey interpretation of theory I could really Comprend the important role that this theory plays in the social work arena. According to Saleebey, (1999),"strength approach conducts clients to the right path to rediscover their wholeness as unique individuals

In other words, therapists tend to treat patients as people who have no voice because they are mentally disable and that is not true at all, Patients with bipolar dost orders should be heard and not ignored by their therapist. When therapist do not pay attention to these clients points of views and approch them in a disrespectful way by imposing their professionals power over clients that negatey affect the relationship between both of them. As a result, distance is developed in the relationship because patients might feel not valued at all during the helping process. The fact that bypolar have this mental disorder it doesn 't mean they are ignorant people. They are smart individuals that just want to be respected and sincerely accepted by society. Sleebey 's (1999) the "essence of the pathology arena comes out through the process of context-striping in which lot of ill people are labeled according to their disease and fit in to a category" ( p.5). So, they transform people into categories missing important aspects that take part of clients lives such as, cultural, social, political, etnitici, spiritual economic. I agree with Saleebey 's ( 1999) states that "labeling illed clients is beneficial because clients become in selective or distinctive individuals who need specific resources to solve their problems" (P.5). For instance. Skisopreniac clients need specific treatment to keep them on their ways to adopt to society. However, they might become so dependent on therapists and their medications that lost their individuality streghts. Because therapists just focus on their problems, instead of their patients streghts out of those problems to improve