Perspectives on strengths-based approaches: social workers, commissioners and managers

Innovation in care models is seen as a key mechanism for addressing demographic and financial challenges facing the care system. One such recent development are strengths based approaches to social care and social work. A previous systematic review of the literature conducted by the Adult Social Care Research Unit (ASCRU) showed that little is known about the development and implementation of strengths-based approaches in adult social care and social work. The present study builds on existing evidence and the literature review noted above.