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Professional Interview Kari Stepp University of Oregon

PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW Step 1Introduce your interviewee(s) and describe the purpose of the interview. Why and how did you choose those participants? What topic were you investigating, and what were you endeavoring to discover? How did the interviewee act while being questioned? By addressing these issues, you can present an overview of your study's topic and goal before examining the interview itself.

My Interview I chose to do my interview a friend who works with youth out in the community, he uses the strengths based approach for working with adolescents tutoring and mentoring kids at the down town center and also is working at his goal of developing an after school program, nonprofit boys club. Having a teenage boy of his own, he feels the community is in need of a program that keeps our children engaged with peers in a positive way that teaches them to give their time back to the community while building a positive support system. His goal is to have a program that not only creates a positive environment for young male adults but also finds ways to plug them in to the community. Mike said, Its so important that these children get to learn what it feels like to give back to the community instead of just taking. We need to plug them into an environment where not only do they have the emotional support to have a place where they feel safe and heard but also a place where they can create their own projects and see them through. If given the chance its amazing what these almost young adults come up with. It blows me away.

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What Does It Mean To Strength Based

During the interview I asked mike, What does it mean to you to be strength based? He said, the short answer is focusing on the their positives, not the negatives. Everyone has strengths. We need to dial in on these instead of weighing each other down in what we cannot do or what others perceive as wrong. In summarizing his longer description strength based approach works with the client to explore their unique strengths. He felt the goal is to facilitate their abilities and move them towards positive solutions. It also practices emphasizes on peoples abilities to be their own agents for change and aids them to mobilize their strengths and capacities towards that positive change. The strengths perspective focuses on a different way of looking at individuals, families and communities. As a whole we tend to always see negative behavior and only focusing on changing that how about we focus on the positive behavior and see if by doing that we can slowly sand out the problems that need to be worked on.
The strength-based perspective offers a wide range of philosophical and practical assistance in learning to value and activate strengths.

Helpful in all stages but especially useful in youth who tend to be primarily regarded as multi-problem and high risk. The strength-based perspective allows practitioner to regard each youth, his/her family and community not only as person in need of support, guidance and opportunity, but also in possession of previously unrealized resources which

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must be identified and mobilized to successfully resolve presenting problems and

circumstances. The strengths perspective demands a different way of looking at individuals, families and communities. All must be seen in the light of their capacities, talents, competencies, possibilities, visions, values and hopes, however dashed and distorted through circumstance, oppression and trauma. The strengths approach requires an accounting of what people know and can do, however inchoate that

Why Would Someone Use a Strengths Based Approach All must be seen in the light of their capacities, talents, competencies, possibilities, visions, values and hopes, however dashed and distorted through circumstance, oppression and trauma. The strengths approach requires an accounting of what people know and can do. I am committed to creating hope and change by helping my clients to focus on the positive, the effective, and the reasonable solutions that are available. Mike said. It was interesting watching him as he spoke. The more into the topic we got, the more visibly excited he became. I could tell he really enjoyed his work. It was a really neat thing to see. I personally do not come a crossed many people on a daily basis that truly enjoy their work. A strength-based practitioner enters into a relationship with all clients looking for resources to support change, growth and positive development, and carries an abiding sense that such resources are always there, though sometimes obscured by other challenges. He or she is culturally competent and understands that strengths come in an incredibly wide variety of forms and interpretations. A strength-based program has incorporated the philosophy into all levels of service from assessment, through service planning, through case management, through discharge and in the

PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW way it views its mission, hires and organizes its staff and engages as a community partner. A strength-based program walks its talk and demonstrates its view that clients are capable, competent and strong beings through giving them relevant and authentic leadership and ownership roles in the operations of the program. How Is A Strengths Based Approach Incorporated Into Your Work

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