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 Positive attributes that can be named as strengths:

• Attending visits with their children.
• Keeping appointments.
• Being on time.
• Good personal appearance, hygiene.
• Gifts for children
• Attentiveness to children
• Asking for information about their children
• Giving information about their children
• Good manners
• Staying in touch with caseworker and sharing information
• Obtaining and/or keeping income or apartment
• Having a job or attending a job through welfare
• Any special talents: singing, good language skills, good handwriting, typing
• Involvement with religious institution or other organized group
• Bilingualism
• Family ties.

Negative attributes that can be viewed as strengths:

• Anger about foster care, being demanding about foster parent's quality of care or caseworker's work - shows that parent cares about child.
  
• Being "manipulative," e.g., playing people off each other - shows intelligence, people skills, and goal-oriented behavior.
  
• Lack of openness, defensiveness, and stubbornness - shows good sense of self and boundaries, understandable, appropriate behavior/attitudes early in relationship with worker.
  
• Withdrawn, depressed behavior - appropriate response to removal of children, could indicate remorse, love for children.

 

10/11/02