demoralization through the promotion of hope, clearly a positive process. The use of client strengths in therapy is viewed as an alternative process to. that employed through a medical model approach in which client problems. and symptoms are used to form diagnoses and treatments (Lopez et al., 2006).
In the U.S., for example, the top one percent are worth about $8 million on averageâ 70 times the lower classes, according to Forbes magazine. Men in Canada account for 79.1 percent of the one percenters. The group's average age is 51 and 82.7 percent are married or living common-law.
âThe wealthiest 5 percent of American households held 54 percent of all wealth reported in the 1989 survey. Their share rose to 61 percent in 2010 and reached 63 percent in 2013; âThe lower half of households by wealth, held just 3 percent of wealth in 1989 and only 1 percent in 2013. To put that in perspectiveâ¦the average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013.â.