Acknowledging strengths and self-care capacity

You provide in home care to people living with disability. The personalities and strengths of each client are quite different, but you to need to focus on helping each of them increase their independence and self-care capacity. Your newest client is in their mid twenties and recently had, as a result of a motor bike accident, a leg amputated. They are still coming to terms with being an amputee. At the moment the person is struggling to use crutches or walk with a prosthetic. They are often very despondent and complain that they will never be able to take care of themselves. A physiotherapist provides an in-home service twice a week and the person attends the physio unit at the local hospital another two days per week. Although the person seems to have relinquished all responsibility for their self-care, the physiotherapist says that, physically, the person is actually doing well. You need to work with the person to help increase their self-care capacity which will, in turn, help them regain some self-confidence. How will you do this? Describe six strategies you could use to help the person identify and acknowledge their own strengths and self-care capacity. To answer the question