The Strengths Perspective and Health Realization

Health Realization is an approach to understanding and improving the human condition, individually and collectively, by encouraging the mobilization of the innate health and capacity for self-righting that all people have. Many times these have been buried under the criticism and censure of others. But it is the approach of health realization to free these capacities by appealing to, and strengthening the mind, consciousness, and thought, the three elements of how we come to understand ourselves and the world.

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"We believe that the client accounts for most of the placebo effect. The placebo effect represents the client’s personal agency in action. Viewing techniques themselves as active placebos that initiate clients’ self-healing processes has received little attention…”

 Karen Tallmman & Arthur C. Bohart. The Client as a Common Factor: Clients as self healers in Hubble, Duncan & Miller (eds.) The Heart and Soul of Change: What works in therapy. Washington, DC: APA, p. 101.