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Strength coaches help athletes assess their strengths and build on them. Likewise, social workers dealing with children and families in the child welfare system, rather than looking for pathology, can learn to help clients discover and develop their strengths, even while dealing with a child welfare bureaucracy. This article gives examples of the strength coach approach.
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Noble, D.N., Perkins, K. & Fatout, M. On Being a Strength Coach: Child Welfare and the Strengths Model. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 17, 141–153 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007510407262
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