School-based practitioners are often called upon to provide assessment and recommendations for struggling students. These assessments often open doors to specialised services or interventions and provide opportunities for students to build competencies in areas of need. However, these assessments often fail to highlight the abilities of these students and instead focus on areas in need of remediation. The use of a more positive, or strengths-based, approach to working with students is needed. Although strengths-based assessment (SBA) is not a new concept, it is not routinely incorporated into school-based assessment services. This article provides an overview of SBA and its benefits, along with empirically-driven models that support the implementation of SBA in schools, and calls for a renewed focus on understanding students from a strengths-based model. Examples of SBA measures and techniques are included, along with implications for practice for both students and psychologists.Psychology is typically viewed as a pathology-focused profession. Individuals seek psychological support when something is wrong or when there is an issue that needs to be 'solved.' Graduate-level psychology programmes emphasise courses in child and adolescent disorders, child psychopathology and clinically-based interventions for psychological disorders. Much research effort and focus is devoted to understanding how and why individuals experience distress and what can be done to ameliorate these concerns.
IntroductionOrdinary Magic: Resilience in Development, by Ann S. Masten, amalgamates the many aspects of resilience research: from neurobiological theories to familial, school, and cultural contexts of development, and from individual resilience to adaptive systems. This book comprehensively integrates resilience research on children and adolescents from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Ordinary Magic acts as a thorough foundational text for scholars, students, and professionals seeking involvement in the field of resilience science. The scope of this book extends current understandings of resilience to applied practices that can be implemented by researchers, psychologists, and multi-disciplinary practitioners to promote growth in resilience. As an internationally recognized resilience researcher, Masten intends for this book to be used as a resource to guide the development of resilience-focused programs involving empirically supported strengths-based strategies and models. Through an examination of existing controversies, Masten emphasizes future directions for research and practice in the field of resilience by presenting a resilience framework to inform further research in the field.
Date Presented 04/22/2023
Rural residing dyads of clients with dementia and their care partners received client-centered telehealth to improve environmental support access while lessening caregiver burden via Harmony @ H.O.M.E (Help Online Modifying the Environment).
Primary Author and Speaker: Celeste B. Roberts
Contributing Authors: Laura Henley, Elizabeth K. Rhodus
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