Understanding The Strengths In Helping Relationship

All practitioners’ should act on the social work commitment to respect human diversity by placing all clients in their own cultural context and then draw on a strengths perspective. The strengths perspective is based on the assumption that the client has multiple strengths. From these strengths practitioners should try to assess the strengths of the client and emphasize their strengths in the helping relationship. Ones’ ability to understand the clients’ life as if it was their own makes a difference in helping relationship. Everyone does not experience everything or process events the same way. No one person is alike. In order to fully understand this concept one must first understand their own culture, be open to cultural differences,