Strengths-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses on your inner strengths and resourcefulness, rather than your weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. The principle is that this focus sets a positive mindset that helps you build on your best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience and change your worldview to one that is more positive. Practitioners believe that the main reason to discuss a patient's problems is to discover inner strengths that clients can use to create solutions.
The technique was developed in the 1950s and subsequently perfected by professor and psychologist Donald Clifton. The American Psychological Association called Clifton "the father of strength therapy and the grandfather of positive psychology."
In the decades that followed, strengths-based therapy developed from the work of people in a variety of disciplines, including social work, counseling psychology, positive psychology, solution-focused therapy, and narrative therapy.
Strength-based therapy differs from other treatments in that it utilizes client involvement. While practitioners should have a strong background in traditional theoretical models of treatment, strength-based therapy practitioners believe that treatment should be individualized, with solutions coming from the clients themselves, guided by the therapist's expertise.
One criticism of strengths-based therapy has been that it assumes that people have everything they need inside of them to solve any problem. Proponents of therapy would say that while some issues are extremely complex, therapists can and do bring their own expertise.
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