Strengths-Based Care Management for Older Adults By Becky Fast, M.S.W., M.P.A., and Rosemary Chapin, Ph.D.

This ready-to-use curriculum can help you train both new and experienced case managers to focus their attention on older clients’ remaining strengths, instead of their losses.

You’ll find these easy-to-use teaching modules to be effective tools for helping learners:

• establish successful helping relationships
  
  
• use effective engagement strategies
  
  
• conduct comprehensive strengths assessments
  
  
• develop consumer-directed goal plans
  
  
• implement resource acquisition and advocacy strategies
  

Reproducible handouts and creative learning activities reinforce the lessons, and each of the detailed modules has been fully field tested. Additionally, the curriculum provides two valuable care management tools: The Strengths Inventory Form and The Personal Goal Plan. All the assessment and learning tools necessary to begin practicing a strengths-based approach to care management are here.