In case management, which approach emphasizes leveraging clients' strengths and resources to enable change?

• A. Clinical or Rehabilitation Model
• B. Medical Model
• C. Strengths Based Perspective
• D. Crisis Intervention Model

Answer: (C)

In case management, the focus is on leveraging clients’ strengths and resources to enable change. This approach sees clients as capable and resourceful, and the worker’s role is to help identify assets—personal skills, coping strategies, social supports, and available community resources—and mobilize them toward the client’s goals. By centering on what the client can do and what supports exist, change becomes more achievable and sustainable, boosting motivation, engagement, and self-efficacy.

Other approaches tend to center elsewhere. The clinical or rehabilitation model emphasizes diagnosing problems and reducing deficits, often with clinician-driven plans that target symptoms more than existing resources. The medical model concentrates on biological issues and disease processes rather than how to build on strengths. The crisis intervention model prioritizes immediate stabilization and safety in acute situations, with less emphasis on long-term asset-building and empowerment.