Problem: It can sometimes be difficult for social workers to fully attend to the strengths of adolescent clients, particularly once the social workers themselves have moved well beyond adolescence. To help you center your thinking about teenagers and their situations on their strengths, consider your relationships and/or experiences with teenagers, and/or your own memories of your adolescence. What internal strengths do you note? What values, abilities, and characteristics do you see as important strengths in adolescence? What social or environmental supports are strengths on which the teenagers you're observing or recalling can rely?