Introduction to Strengths Based Practice

Introduction to Strengths Based Practice

Dr Venkat Pulla founder and President of Brisbane Institute of Strength Based Practice introduces Strengths Based Practices (SBPs), which concentrates on the inherent strengths of individuals, families groups and organisations deploying peoples' personal strengths to aid their recovery and empowerment. SBPs are empowering alternatives to traditional methods with individuals, group or organisational work. SBPs refrain from allowing crippling, labelling and stigmatised language.

Social and Economic Returns of Empowering Youth Participation in Voluntary Work in Civil Society Organisations in the Sultanate of Oman

The current age of economic and social transformations has witnessed the development of voluntary work with its new philosophy and concepts which changed from being charity work to becoming a cornerstone of sustained development of the society. Volunteering has a key role in enhancing the values of people’s participation, social responsibility, integrity, donation, and group belongingness. Most societies seek to empower youth to participate in voluntary work in all aspects of life and in all organisations, in the light of empowerment domains which include participation in decision making, independence, professional development, effectiveness, status description, and efficacy. 

Building helplines and caring for missing children: a community project

Kahte hai dhoondne se toh khudaa bi milta hai: If one searches, you can even find God. Every 30 seconds, a child goes missing in India and majority of them are girls and from poor socio-economic background (Singh, K.P, 2014). Referring to government figures accepting that only 45 per cent of them are fortunate to reach their homes, the Supreme Court observed that; “Nobody seems to care about missing children. This is the irony”, (TNN, 2014).

Social and Economic Returns of Empowering Youth Participation in Voluntary Work in Civil Society Organisations in the Sultanate of Oman

The current age of economic and social transformations has witnessed the development of voluntary work with its new philosophy and concepts which changed from being charity work to becoming a cornerstone of sustained development of the society. Volunteering has a key role in enhancing the values of people’s participation, social responsibility, integrity, donation, and group belongingness. Most societies seek to empower youth to participate in voluntary work in all aspects of life and in all organisations, in the light of empowerment domains which include participation in decision making, independence, professional development, effectiveness, status description, and efficacy. 

Empowering Women through Self Help Groups in India

Empowerment provides a greater access to knowledge and resources, more independence in decision making, considerable ability to plan lives, more control over the circumstances which influence lives, and freedom from customs, beliefs and practices. Thus, women empowerment is a process in which women challenge the existing norms and culture, to effectively promote their wellbeing. If women were empowered to do more and be more, the possibility for economic growth becomes apparent. Empowering women in developing countries is essential to reduce global poverty since women represent most of the world’s poorer populations.

Building helplines and caring for missing children: a community project

Kahte hai dhoondne se toh khudaa bi milta hai: If one searches, you can even find God. Every 30 seconds, a child goes missing in India and majority of them are girls and from poor socio-economic background (Singh, K.P, 2014). Referring to government figures accepting that only 45 per cent of them are fortunate to reach their homes, the Supreme Court observed that; “Nobody seems to care about missing children. This is the irony”, (TNN, 2014). 

Metaphor Links Brain, Body and Mind

Keeping Developmental Trauma in Mind. Phil Graham, Kamal Touma, George Lianos

The Figure 8 Trauma Cycle and the Conversational Model

Working in the Flame. Conversational Model Psychotherapy with the Narcissistic Borderline Client

Self Coming Into Being

On Becoming a Psychotherapist

Resistance and Re-traumatisation – First Cut is the Deepest