| Subject: | [youthgas] Newcastle - 28th February 2007 - Symposium - What if the Miracle Doesn't Happen | | Date: | Monday, February 5, 2007 09:03:27 (+1100) | | From: | Michelle Gifford <Michelle.Gifford @.............au>
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Please find below details on a Symposium which is happening in Newcastle on the
28th February 2007 - What if the Miracle Doesn't Happen?
Critical considerations of strength-based practice in the helping profession.
Is strengths-based practice more than just being positive with clients?
How do practitioners maintain a strengths focus when clients struggle to
identify strengths?
How do we introduce the model to vulnerable clients with complex problems?
How do strengths-based approaches address broader structural issues and social
disadvantage?
What if the miracle doesn*t happen?
In the last few years, strengths-based approaches of working with clients have
gained considerable support from helping professionals delivering services to
individuals, families and communities. One of the central tenets of
strengths-based approaches is the belief in the client*s right to
self-determination and capacity to create a future of his or her own choosing.
From this perspective, the practitioner assumes a collaborative working
relationship with the client rather than imposing a predetermined agenda for
change. Despite the growing popularity of strengths-based approaches, there is an
absence of published peer reviewed literature supporting the approach*s
effectiveness limiting practitioner*s evidence based practice.
Symposium focus
This symposium will provide you with an opportunity to engage with other
practitioners, researchers, managers, funding representatives and policy analysts
from the helping professions in a forum to examine the application of
strength-based approaches.
The symposium will lead to the dissemination of a discussion paper recognising
the value and contribution of strength-based approaches while identifying the
limitations and obstacles in practice.
When: 9.30am * 4.30pm > Wednesday 28 February 2007
Where: Industry Development Centre (IDC) University of Newcastle, University
Drive Callaghan
Cost: $154.00 Catering Provided
Who: Facilitated by Paul Schott & Anthony Critchley, Newfangled Ideas in partnership with Judi Geggi,
The Family Action Centre and Prof. Mel Gray, School of Social Sciences The
University of Newcastle
Attached is a registration form for you, please contact me if you require any
additional information.
Michelle Gifford
Family Action Centre
Events Co-ordinator
University of Newcastle
Callaghan NSW 2308
Family Action Centre - 02 4921 6858
Michelle direct line Ph: 02 4921 6830
Fax: 02 4921 8686
www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/fac
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