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Strength-Based Leaders: An Affirming and Successful Approach for Supporting Victims’ Recovery and New Life



Introduction to the strength-based approach currently being used in the majority of human-trafficking victims’ programs and now gaining footing in treatment and care for all other victims of abuse or violence as children or adults.


First published in the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force newsletter, Aug 15, 2017


Many programs offered by Victim Services in northern Virginia ascribe to the “strength-based approach” when working with victims. Do you know about this uniquely empowering – and new – approach in therapy, including for victims of trauma and abuse?


Strength-based therapy fosters recovery (and transformation) in individuals and groups by operating with the primary belief that each person has strengths on which they can ground their work overcoming trauma or healing/managing mental illness (Laursen 2003).


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