Licensed clinical social worker Shari B. Kaplan uses a list of 102 personality strengths to help clients recognize positive qualities they've overlooked. The exercise often surfaces traits like creativity and adventurousness, helping people rebuild their sense of identity around what they do well instead of what's broken.
when I do my biopsychosocial, I actually pull out a piece of paper, which is 102 personality strengths, and I start going down. I'm like, listen, I wanna know if you believe you have any of these strengths or if you ever have had any of these strengths. And I just go down the list and people are amazed. They're like, oh, I used to be really creative. I used to be really adventurous. I used to, you know, try new things. And now all of a sudden I'm bringing things up that are very positive for the patient.
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