There is no box for the Happy Dance

I am a strengths-based therapist, priest, spiritual director, you-name-it.  I would like to translate the forms, if I need to fill them out, into strengths-based forms.  OK, I did see two lines at the bottom of the assessment form which asked for strengths.  Maybe they are referred to at the end of things.  I don*t see a particular spot in the progress notes.

As a volunteer I am required

To fill out mountains of paper

On each and every client.

There are boxes upon boxes to check.

They say:

There is no change

Or

Things are worse.

They say:

You are suicidal,

Homicidal

Or not.

Pick the goal and objective

You worked on.

If not:

Fake it.

There is no box to mark

The Happy Dance.

We don*t count that.

I suppose too regular dancing

Would require dismissal,

The filling out

Of the satisfaction survey,

Placed by the client

In an envelope,

Sealed,

Then signed over the flap

By the client and therapist

For privacy.