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Different kinds of assets
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Assets versus deficits• Asset-based approaches turn
our ‘normal’ care approaches on their head.
• Instead of looking at problems, we need to find the strengths we can work with.
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Deficits Assets
Dependence on services Dependence on each other
Consumers of services Co-producers of services
Disabilities, problems, needs Abilities, capabilities, assets
Client/patient Citizen
Treating symptoms Promoting wellbeing
Professionals as experts Participants as Experts
Comparison of the asset-based approach with ‘normal’ care
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Different assetsAssets are found within the individual, the community and the wider environment.
• Individual assets – e.g. resilience, commitment to learning, self-esteem, sense of
purpose.
• Community assets – e.g. family and friendship networks, social capital, community
cohesion, religious tolerance, intergenerational solidarity.
• Organisational or institutional assets – e.g. environmental resources for promoting physical health,
employment security and opportunities for volunteering, safe housing, political democracy and participation (Morgan et al 2010).
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AssetsIndividual: These are what the person has within them that gives them strength; their ‘resilience’ and resources. For example, self esteem and confidence, intelligence, humour, internal locus of control (sense of autonomy), optimism and hope, motivation.
Community: These might be resources that can be tapped into, exploited, improved and developed. Such as a local AA meeting, support group, non-using friends, local employment/housing initiatives, community cohesion, local further education college.
Environmental: These are the existing contexts in which the person and the community are placed. These could be ‘things’ or socio-political strategies. For example, the local Health & Wellbeing Board focuses on substance misuse, local policing policy, government policy and funding to aid people into treatment, house-building strategy, drug courts.
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Assets (cont.)
In substance misuse, these assets are often called:
Recovery Capital (Granfield & Cloud, 1999).
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Peter Sheath: asset-based approaches from the activist perspective
Watch the video ‘Asset-based approaches’ and hear Peter Sheath, from Emerging Futures, talking about what assets mean to him in the context of substance use .
What do you think of Peter’s views?
• Would we be better off with no services?
• Where do health and social care services fit in with this community approach?
• Can professionals engage with, and facilitate, Asset Based Community Development, and if so, how?
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Peter Sheath’s viewsThere are no ‘answers’ to the questions posed because there are different viewpoints about what service structure is best for delivering community-based substance use support.
There is a tension however between community based, user-led support services, and professional services. This is more a political issue for policy makers and commissioners.
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Recovery capital and the three asset levelsFor people misusing substances, evidence suggests that their main assets could be...
Personal recovery capital: • Safe and secure accommodation. • Physical and mental wellbeing. • Purposeful activity.
Social recovery capital: • Peer support .• Supportive friends and family.
Community recovery capital: • Supportive and non-stigmatising attitudes in the broader community. • Community resources (activities and transport links). • Recovery communities.
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References
• Daddow, R. and Broome, S. (2010) Whole Person Recovery: A user-centred systems approach to problem drug use. RSA. Accessed online at https://www.thersa.org/globalassets/pdfs/reports/rsa-whole-person-recovery-report.pdf
• Granfield, R. and Cloud, W (1999) Coming Clean: Overcoming addiction without treatment. New York: New York University Press.
• Morgan A, Davies M, Ziglio E. (2010) Health assets in a global context: theory, Methods, Action: Investing in assets of individuals, communities and organizations. London: Springer.
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