Class Summary: Strengths and Needs
Class numero dos was all about identifying strengths and needs. Your own families strengths and needs. Your foster children's strengths and needs. Your personal strengths and needs. Everything you do well or will help you in your foster care adventure gets listed as a strength. Things that you need to work on or need resources for in order to develop are needs. We all have both. Sometimes the things we think would be a weakness actually are a strength in this world because they help you relate to the kids you care for. Its interesting to read all of the case studies and try to pick apart the needs of the children based on their behaviors. Every behavior is expressing a need. Sometimes they are obvious, sometimes they are convoluted but there is always one being expressed. That's what I took away from the class, to look at the need instead of the behavior. Fulfill the need, stop the behavior.
Tomorrow night is my first home study, here's to hoping I pass with flying colors :)
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