{"id":1646,"date":"2025-08-18T18:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:37:14","slug":"problem-focused-vs-strength-based-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/problem-focused-vs-strength-based-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem-Focused vs Strength-Based Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Topic<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Problem-Focused<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Strength-Based<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Example<\/td><td>\u201cWhy have you been truant twice a week for the last month?\u201d<\/td><td>What factors helped you to make it to school on time, all day for three days a week for the last month?<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Family<\/td><td>\u201cDoes your family have a history of violence?\u201d<br>OR<br>\u201cHas anyone in your family ever been to jail or prison or been on probation?\u201d<\/td><td>What would you like to say about your family?<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Peers<\/td><td>\u201cHow much alcohol and drugs are your friends doing?\u201d<br>OR<br>\u201cDo you have any friends in a gang?\u201d<\/td><td>What can you say about the strengths of your peers\/friends?<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>School\/Work<\/td><td>\u201cWhy are you failing this class?\u201d<br>OR<br>\u201cWhy haven't you been able to get a job yet?\u201d<\/td><td>What would you say about your best school classes?<br>How has it been going since you started looking for work?<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Drugs<\/td><td>\u201cDo you think you have a drug problem?\u201d<br>OR<br>\u201cWhy do you think you are using drugs so much?\u201d<\/td><td>What has helped you to avoid using drugs?<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mental Health<\/td><td>\u201cHave you ever been in therapy; why?\u201d<br>OR<br>\u201cAre there any areas of your life that are troubling you, that you worry about, or feel very sad about?\u201d<\/td><td>What has helped you with mental health challenges?<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Being in Trouble<\/td><td>\u201cDidn't you realize that you would get into this kind of trouble if you did__________?<\/td><td>Talk about strengths have helped you be successful?<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Mackin & Buttice, 2007. Note: Permission is hereby granted to reproduce and distribute copies of this work for nonprofit purposes, provided that this copyright notice is included on each copy. Development of this tool was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic Problem-Focused Strength-Based Example \u201cWhy have you been truant twice a week for the last month?\u201d What factors helped you to make it to school on time, all day for three days a week for the last month? Family \u201cDoes your family have a history of violence?\u201dOR\u201cHas anyone in your family ever been to jail &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/problem-focused-vs-strength-based-questions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Problem-Focused vs Strength-Based Questions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":852,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.tapestry-tool.com\/psyrehab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}