@article{ref1,
title="Are practitioners incorporating a strengths‐focused approach when working with multi‐problem poor families?",
journal="Journal of community and applied social psychology",
year="2007",
author="Sousa, Liliana and Ribeiro, Cláudia and Rodrigues, Sofia",
volume="17",
number="1",
pages="53-66",
abstract="Multi-problem poor families have been characterized as dysfunctional and chaotic, and problem-centred interventions have been developed. However, the activation of families' strengths has shown itself to be an important tool for intervention, hence the relevance of promoting the incorporation of a strengths-focused approach. So, it becomes important to determine to what extent practitioners are thinking of incorporating a strengths-focused approach when working with these families. To achieve this goal, a semi-structured interview was administered to 23 practitioners. The findings suggest that practitioners are able to identify strengths but do not think in a strengths-focused way. The main obstacles are: ambiguity in the definition of strengths, a focus on problems, lack of confidence in the possibility of improvement in the lives of families. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p />",
language="",
issn="1052-9284",
doi="10.1002/casp.875",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.875"
}