极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: A social worker’s take on the Barbie speech

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: "people you support"

"people you support" — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 11:29:08 +0000

“You have to save money for the local authority, but not let on to the people you support”

Just about says it all…

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Ruth

Ruth — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:46:46 +0000

I love it Kat, I also cried with the Barbie speech. Social workers are super heroes with unrealistic expectations from the society also we have bad reputation because we are not perfect as a expected. We only need to be kind to each other and know our own worth.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 19:35:00 +0000

In reply to Grace.

Yeah as the old saying goes
Damned if you do and damned if you dont
We are not invincible, just burnt out and very much not appreciated and held in high regard as many other health and social care professionals.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Harry Barry

Harry Barry — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:05:51 +0000

After some 45 years in statutory and agency social work I retired with a few home truths under my belt. Management don’t really nurture or care for their workforce, you will always be overworked, under stress and trying to manage unworkable caseloads, forget about appreciation – take what you can when you overcome one of those massive issues faced daily and if you ever doubt your effectiveness or why you’re doing the job it’s time to leave. We dont need Barbie, really !!!, to know our own worth
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极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Tricia

Tricia — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:43:53 +0000

I absolutely agree with this. We are not asking for clients to appreciate us. Often times we are brought in to manage a vast array of things. As social workers we manage the most vulnerable populations while having needs based programing de funded. I have seen my colleagues go above and beyond the scope of their practice to assist clients in resolving issues. We are the hidden workforce of the social services. The only time light is shed on these workers is when something goes wrong that was outside of their control . It is at that point the worker are judged in a public forum by individuals that have no idea the scope of the practice.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: John

John — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:08:12 +0000

Wow, so well said. Speak truth!

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Nic

Nic — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:16:06 +0000

Appreciation? Hmm! The main thing I got from this version of the speech was the ‘Contradictions’. Brilliantly illustrated Kat. You’ve almost persuaded me to go and see the Barbie film.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:04:34 +0000

Love this!! So true!!

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:08:41 +0000

In reply to Rebecca Maser. If social workers want appreciation than they can start by moving away from the "just like" interiority complex. If we have our own worth, stand on that, promote that, own that. Gatecrashing someone else's public clapping is unseemly at best and desperation at worst.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Rebecca Maser

Rebecca Maser — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 12:26:24 +0000

When she says being appreciated, it doesn’t have to mean from the people in crisis… but rather the public or even just management!! I understand that the teenager who needs boundaries may not appreciate those boundaries for many years, if ever, but everyone needs to feel seen and heard and appreciated. I have had to learn to find those bits of appreciation where I can because they don’t come regularly or routinely. A former client called me up several years after my involvement with her family. She advised that she was now living in another community and just was referred to a new social worker, who she didn’t like. I suggested she give the new worker a chance, she may like her in the future. She told me that she wanted me back because we got along. I had to remind her that she had cussed me out the first 6 months we worked together! Her reply “oh, yeah, I forgot!” We had a laugh and then I suggested she give her new worker a call and try to start over. So, literally years later, I received a sliver of appreciation for a working relationship that had lasted over 2 years. Social workers should be appreciated publicly just like firefighters and teachers and police and EMS and doctors and nurses and other front line workers. We need support and acknowledgment of the hardships of the job, which comes with appreciation of the importance of the work we do and the manner in which we do it.