Postoj sociálních pracovníků pracujících s lidmi bez domova k silným stránkám jejich klientů
The attitudes of social workers working with homeless persons to the strengths of their clients

Summary/Abstract: Strength-based social work is based on the premise that the intervention of social workers should build on the talents, potential, visions, hopes and opportunities available to each client. This is also true of the homeless persons targeted by this empirical article, the aim of which was to respond to the main research question: What is the attitude of social workers working with homeless persons in a selected organisation to exploiting the strengths of their clients? The issue was approached via the conducting of a qualitative survey among seven social workers from the selected organisation involving semi-structured interviews. The results of the research indicated that the social workers considered it important to make use of the potential of the client and that, indeed, they use it in practice; moreover, it was interesting to note the approach they adopt in this respect. We consider it important to note, however, that although the focus on client potential offers considerable opportunities from the early stages of intervention, the respondents stated that they did not devote significant attention to the strengths of the initial assessment.

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