Which of the following statements is an accurate critique of empowerment/strengths approaches?
a. They are limited because they just offer the idea that individuals can adapt to unjust sociopolitical structures by discovering a personal ability.
b. Their entire orientation is more directed toward enabling the individual to join with the worker in co-creating the intervention or ‘therapy’ itself.
c. They assume that all human behaviors are caused by sociopolitical and institutional structures such as economic stratification and gender inequality.
d. There is no objective evidence that social work practice focusing on people’s strengths and/or aiming to empower them is effective.
Ans: B
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