It sadness me that this case is having you question strength based work. Please don’t. I think it is possible to look at the positive and building on it when the world isn’t so positive. I think the same could be done with Paul as he does have them and could just use a reminder of what they are. As well as working with Paul to build on those strengths. I was originally going to tell you to “screw them” but the reality is social workers are also in a culture that doesn’t value input from us as much as we would like. Instead it looks at codes and why people like Paul are depressed and not the situation he is in that could be linked to racism. For me, we need to play by rules of the world to do the most good while hoping that my way of looking
