Purpose and Process
Tools
Strengths Perspective
100

The team decides if the student has a legally-defined one of these.

Disability

100
Assessment that includes interpersonal and affective strength.

BERS-2 (Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale, second edition)

100
Term to describe the ability to adapt positively.

Resilience

200

The team chooses the appropriate one of these for the student.

Intervention

200

Assessment that includes domains of neighborhood, school, friends, and family.

SSP or ESSP (School Success Profile or Elementary School Success Profile)

200

Instead of labels, a strengths perspective uses this linguistic strategy.

Questions/questioning

300

Adjective describing the type of team that conducts an SDS.

Multidisciplinary

300

Scales that assess motor-physical and self-help skills.

Adaptive behavior scales

300

Term for conditions that are most responsible for problems.

Keystone risk factors

400

A social worker will review these files as part of an SDS.

Academic and special education

400

Usually, these are conducted with the student, the parents, and the teacher(s).

Interviews

400
A strengths-based observer wants to catch a student working in what way?

Successfully

500

An SDS report remains in special education files for this many years.

5

500

A social worker will review these files as part of an SDS.

Academic and special education

500

In interviews a strengths practitioner works to ______ power.

Share/equalize

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