Personal and social skills, conflict management, and communication skills. Decisionmaking, reasoning, and problem solving. Health and recreation. An emerging approach that is useful for competency development is a strengths-based practice that emphasizes building on youths' and families' strengths and positive qualities rather than approaching them from a deficit or pathology frame of reference. Strengths Person is unique, with talents and resources.
Intervention is possibility focused.
Childhood trauma may contribute to strengths or weaknesses of the individual. Youths , families , and communities aspirations are the focus of the work to be done. Individuals, families, and communities are viewed as experts. Choice, control, commitment, and personal development are possibilities. Strengths, capacities, and adaptive skills are resources for the work to be accomplished.