Items listed in these bibliographies are only a sample. Additional items may be found in the databases.
References
Aguilar, M. A. (1996). Promoting the educational achievement of Mexican American young women. Social Work in Education, 18(3), 145-156.
Beder, J. (2000). Training oncology camp volunteers. Cancer Practice, 8(3), 129-134.
Bell, H. (2003). Strengths and secondary trauma in family violence work. Social Work, 48(4), 513-522.
Bendor, S. J. (2008). Strong at the broken places: Diverse voices from the second generation. Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 83(2-3), 243-249.
Bigler, M. O. (2005). Harm reduction as a practice and prevention model for social work. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, 10(2), 69-86.
Bordelon, T. D. (2002). Using DAVE as a model to go beyond treatment compliance with persons receiving renal replacement therapy. Social Work in Health Care, 36(2), 35-48.
Brun, C.,Richard C. (2001). Strengths-based case management: Individuals' perspectives on strengths and the case manager relationship. Social Work, 46(3), 278.
Cadell, S., Fletcher, M., Makkappallil-Knowles, E., Caidwell, S., Wong, L., Bodurtha, D., . . . Shoblom, W. (2005). The use of the arts and the strengths perspective: The example of a course assignment. Social Work Education, 24(1), 137-146.
Cassity-Caywood, W., & Huber, R. (2003). Rural older adults at home. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 41(3), 229-245. Chadiha, L. A., Adams, P., Biegel, D. E., Auslander, W., & Gutierrez, L. (2004). Empowering African American women informal caregivers: A literature synthesis and practice strategies. Social Work, 49(1), 97-108.
Cheon, J. W. (2008). Best practices in community-based prevention for youth substance reduction: Towards strengths-based positive development policy. Journal of Community Psychology, 36(6), 761-779.
Colby, I. C. (1997). Transforming human services organizations through empowerment of neighbors. Journal of Community Practice, 4(2), 1-12.
Cowger, C. D. (1994). Assessing client strengths: Clinical assessment for client empowerment. Social Work, 39(3), 262-268.
Crohn, H. M. (2006). Five styles of positive stepmothering from the perspective of young adult stepdaughters. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 46(1), 119-134.
De Jong, P., & Miller, S. D. (1995). How to interview for client strengths. Social Work, 40(6), 729-36.
Delgado, M. (1997). Role of Latina-owned beauty parlors in a Latino community. Social Work, 42(5), 445-453.
Dunlap, E., Golub, A., & Johnson, B. D. (2006). The severely-distressed African American family in the crack era: Empowerment is not enough. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 33(1), 115-139.
Dybicz, P. (2011). Interpreting the strengths perspective through narrative theory. Families in Society, 92(3), 247-253.
Early, T. J. (2001). Measures for practice with families from a strengths perspective. Families in Society, 82(3), 225-232.
Early, T. J., & GlenMaye, L. F. (2000). Valuing families: Social work practice with families from a strengths perspective. Social Work, 45(2), 118-130.
Freeman, E. M. (2011). Narrative approaches in social work practice: A life span, culturally centered, strengths perspective. Springfield, IL US: Charles C Thomas Publisher.
Gerdes, K. E., & Stromwall, L. K. (2008). Conation: A missing link in the strengths perspective. Social Work, 53(3), 233-242.
Gleason, E. T. (2007). A strengths-based approach to the social developmental study. Children & Schools, 29(1), 51-59.
Graybeal, C. (2001). Strengths-based social work assessment: Transforming the dominant paradigm. Families in Society, 82(3), 233-242.
Hodge, D. R. (2001). Spiritual assessment: A review of major qualitative methods and a new framework for assessing spirituality. Social Work, 46(3), 203-214.
Itzhaky, H., & Bustin, E. (2002). Strengths and pathological perspectives in community social work. Journal of Community Practice, 10(3), 61-73.
Kam-shing Yip. (2003). A strengths perspective in working with an adolescent with dual diagnosis. Clinical Social Work Journal, 31(2), 189-203.
Kam-Shing Yip. (2005). A strengths perspective in understanding and working with clients with psychosis and records of violence. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 45(4), 446-464.
Kelly, B. L., & Gates, T. G. (2010). Using the strengths perspective in the social work interview with young adults who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. Social Work in Mental Health, 8(5), 421-437.
Koenig, T., & Spano, R. (2006). Professional hope in working with older adults. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 33(2), 25-44.
Koenig, T., & Spano, R. (2007). The cultivation of social workers' hope in personal life and professional practice. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work, 26(3), 45-61.
Kurland, R. (2007). Debunking the "blood theory" of social work with groups: Group workers are made and not born. Social Work with Groups, 30(1), 11-24.
Laursen, E. K. (2003). Frontiers in strength-based treatment. Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-Based Interventions, 12(1), 12-17.
Lawrence-Webb, C., & Okundaye, J. N. (2007). Kinship and spirituality: Utilizing strengths of caregivers. Journal of Health & Social Policy, 22(3), 101-119.
Lee, M. (2007). Discovering strengths and competencies in female domestic violence survivors: An application of Roberts' continuum of the duration and severity of woman battering. Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 7(2), 102-114.
Lietz, C. A. (2007). Strengths-based group practice: Three case studies. Social Work with Groups, 30(2), 73-87
Lietz, C. A., Andereck, K. L., & Knopf, R. C. (2010). The breakthrough series collaborative on service integration: A mixed methods study of a strengths-based initiative. Advances in Social Work, 11(2), 248-266.
MacArthur, J., Rawana, E. P., & Brownlee, K. (2011). Implementation of a strengths-based approach in the practice of child and youth care. Relational Child & Youth Care Practice, 24(3), 6-16.
MacFarlane, C. D. (2006). My strength: A look outside the box at the strengths perspective. Social Work, 51(2), 175-176.
Mahoney, A. M., & Daniel, C. A. (2006). Bridging the power gap. Prison Journal, 86(1), 75-88.
McMillen, J. C. (1999). Better for it: How people benefit from adversity. Social Work, 44(5), 455-468.
Min, T. (2011). The client-centered integrative strengths-based approach: Ending longstanding conflict between social work values and practice. Canadian Social Science, 7(2), 15-22.
Norman, J. (2000). Constructive narrative in arresting the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder. Clinical Social Work Journal, 28(3), 303-319.
Oko, J. (2006). Evaluating alternative approaches to social work: A critical review of the strengths perspective. Families in Society, 87(4), 601-611.
Palmer, N. (1997). Resilience in adult children of alcoholics: A nonpathological approach to social work practice. Health & Social Work, 22(3), 201-209.
Pavlek, M. (2001). Getting ready to talk: The treatment of a mildly retarded selectively mute adult. Clinical Social Work Journal, 29(2), 159-169.
Perkins, K., & Tice, C. (1999). Family treatment of older adults who misuse alcohol: A strengths perspective. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 31(3), 169-185.
Rapp, R. C. (2007). The strengths perspective: Proving 'my strengths' and 'it works'. Social Work, 52(2), 185-186.
Redko, C., Rapp, R. C., Elms, C., Snyder, M., & Carlson, R. G. (2007). Understanding the working alliance between persons with substance abuse problems and strengths-based case managers. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 39(3), 241-250.
Reese, D. J., Ahern, R. E., Nair, S., O'Farie, J. D., & Warren, C. (1999). Hospice access and use by African Americans: Addressing cultural and institutional.. Social Work, 44(6), 549-559.
Saleebey, D. (2008). Commentary on the strengths perspective and potential applications in school counseling. Professional School Counseling, 12(2), 68-75.
Schatz, M. S., & Flagler, M. N. (2004). Examining how professionals describe the strengths perspective in their practice. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, 9(2), 63-77.
Smith, D. C., & Hall, J. A. (2007). Strengths-oriented referrals for teens (SORT): Giving balanced feedback to teens and families. Health & Social Work, 32(1), 69-72.
Sousa, L., Ribeiro, C., & Rodrigues, S. (2006). Intervention with Multi‐problem poor clients: Towards a Strengths‐focused perspective. Journal of Social Work Practice, 20(2), 189-204.
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Sullivan, K. A., & Wodarski, J. S. (2006). Life and social skills: Aiding abuse survivors from closed systems. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 3(2), 67-89.
Thomas, C. J. (2002). The context of religiosity, social support and health locus of control: Implications for the health-related quality of life of African-American hemodialysis patients. Journal of Health & Social Policy, 16(1), 43-54.
Tice, C. (1994). A community's response to supported employment: Implications for social work practice. Social Work, 39(6), 728-736.
Tice, C. J., & Harnek Hall, D. M. (2008). Sexuality education and adolescents with developmental disabilities: Assessment, policy, and advocacy. Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, 7(1), 47-62.
Voss, R. W., Douville, V., Soldier, A. L., & Twiss, G. (1999). Tribal and shamanic-based social work practice: A Lakota perspective. Social Work, 44(3), 228-241.
Weber, Z., & Bugarszki, Z. (2007). Some reflections on social workers' perspectives on mental health services in two cities—Sydney, Australia and Budapest, Hungary. International Social Work, 50(2), 145-155.
Wei-he Guo, & Ming-sum Tsui. (2010). From resilience to resistance: A reconstruction of the strengths perspective in social work practice. International Social Work, 53(2), 233-245.
Wilson, S. Z. (2006). Field education: Linking self-efficacy theory and the strengths perspective. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, 12(1), 261-274.
Yip, K. (2006). A strengths perspective in working with an adolescent with self-cutting behaviors. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 23(2), 134-146.
Zakour, M. (2007). When their world falls apart: Helping families and children manage the effects of disasters. Social Work, 52(2), 187-187.
Zeman, L. D., & Buila, S. (2006). Practice wisdom on custodial parenting with mental illness: A strengths view. Journal of Family Social Work, 10(3), 51-65.
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