Abstract
This chapter focuses on the application of strengths-based practices within adult mental health provision. It locates strengths-based practice within a neo-liberal culture of individualism which fails to recognise the determinants of mental distress. In such a hostile climate the potential for strengths-based practice to flourish is undermined. Following on from this, the chapter focuses on practice which further undermines the potential of strengths-based practice, namely, the dominance of the medical model, the risk agenda and the state benefits eligibility criteria. The final part of the chapter considers an alternative type of space which reframes strengths-based practice and suggests, that in the right conditions, it can be more aligned with a humane and collective response to recovery. This final section includes the voices of people with lived experience and a case study from practice, along with some suggestions for further reading.
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