Strengths-Based Assessment and Planning (10 Contact Hours)
- 1 Section
- 12 Lessons
- 2 Quizzes
- 10h Duration
Course Content
- Course Overview & Introduction
- Module 1: From Deficits to Strengths: The Strengths Perspective
- Module 2: The Strengths Model: Six Principles for Practice
- Module 3: What Counts as a Strength?
- Module 4: Recovery Capital: Personal, Social, Community, and Cultural Resources
- Module 5: Conducting a Strengths Assessment Across Life Domains
- Module 6: Conversation Skills for Eliciting Strengths
- Module 7: Resilience and Self-Efficacy
- Module 8: Strengths Across Culture, Trauma, and Hopelessness
- Module 9: From Strengths to the Service Plan
- Module 10: Balancing Strengths and Concerns: Documentation, Risk, and Common Pitfalls
- References
- Post Test
- Program Evaluation
Strengths-Based Assessment and Planning is a 10-hour continuing education course for Certified Mental Health Professionals (CMHPs) who want assessments and service plans that build on what is right with people, not only what is wrong. Traditional assessment in behavioral health focuses heavily on problems, symptoms, and deficits. Strengths-based practice adds the other half of the picture: the skills, qualities, interests, relationships, community resources, and past successes people bring to their own recovery. This course teaches the strengths perspective and the Strengths Model, the concept of recovery capital, practical methods for conducting a strengths assessment across life domains, conversation skills for eliciting strengths, and ways to turn strengths into goals, objectives, and interventions, while keeping risk and clinical concerns clearly in view and within the CMHP role.
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