title: Assessment and utilization of patient strengths in acute care treatment planning.
abstract: Strength-focused assessment and treatment planning are presented as a partner to diagnostic evaluation of symptoms, syndromes, and clinical history. It is not advocated as a replacement, but as an extension of what we now do. However, we must not underestimate the new attitude inherent in the search for barely visible coping moments and coping momentum. It's a new attitude more than a new technique for both the patient and the practitioner.
authors: Richard Young Hospital, Omaha, NE.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Lehnhoff
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006040:Goals; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000379:methods*; D010348:Patient Care Team