Strengths Flashcards
9 characteristics of strengths:
- Developing entities
- Developed through learning
- Coexist with weakness and vulnerabilities
- Related to goals
- Defined by context and circumstances
- Multidimensional
- Can be depleted and replenished
- Are transferable
- Personal constructions
To be resilient you need to posses strength:
Dealing with challenges people discover their strength, develop new skills, competencies and understandings and they become more resilient.
When people have a large reserve of strength, they are better equipped to adapt to threats/challenges and over come adversity.
Concept associated with strengths:
Resilience
Resources
Strengths include what
ressources, capacities, competencies, skills, talent and traits
Facts about strengths
biological, social, biopsychological
Subjective . (what a person says they are)
every family as a reserve of strengths that they use everyday
NURSES need to know what family and patient’s strengths are to be able to support them
Name the category of the strength: age-related and spirituality
wisdom and spiritual
Name the category of the strength: perseverance, insight, optimism, finding purpose and meaning, faith, ove for live…
emotional
Name the category of the strength: integrity, honor discipline, courage, perseverance
character
Name the category of the strength: ability to express oneself in writing
creative
Name the category of the strength: ability to form meaningful relationships with others, ability to communicate, capacity to nurture, show compassion, cooperation, tolerance, empathy, forgiveness, love…
relational and nurturing
Name the category of the strength: academic degree
educational
Name the category of the strength: problem solving, decision making, ability to think and reason
cognitive
Name the category of the strength: make use of social network, access to community service
use-of-resources
