The Strengths Model of Case Management believes that people have strengths, goals, and dreams. The community is viewed as an environment of resources. Meaningful relationships and access to resources and personal skills development are essential to personal goals.
This model values consumer choice, self determination, personal responsibility and empowerment.
It recognizes the power of the recipient-case manager relationship as a partnership. The model also values assertive outreach to the consumer’s home and community in facilitating personal growth and change.
Principles of the Strengths Model of Case Management (Rapp, 2006).
- The focus is on individual strengths rather than pathology.
- The recipient-case manager relationship is primary and essential in the facilitation of growth and change.
- Interventions are based on the principle of recipient self-determination.
- Aggressive outreach is the preferred mode of intervention.
- Resource acquisition activities are used to acquire environmental resources.
- Group supervision is used to monitor recipient progress and foster creativity among case managers (case managers are resources to each other).
- The community is viewed as a resource and not as an obstacle to service delivery.
- Individuals suffering from serious mental illness have the ability to learn, grow and change.