极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: How to stand up for yourself in social work

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Harri

Harri — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:23:01 +0000

I say, Community Care give Samm and Keith a regular slot. “Social workers act like overexcited toddlers by an MBE”. “I am proud that when faced with crises social workers step up while therapists stare intently at their diaries.” That makes me prouder to be a self affirming social worker and that I am part of a validating comradeship than the dodgy liberterianism of Jordan Peterson.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 09:35:04 +0000

Sorry I don’t buy any of this victim blaming psychotherapy. I am actually angry at the barely disguised victim blaming parading as self care tips. We are unhappy and burdened at work not because we haven’t worked out how to love and care for ourselves. We are demoralised by vacancies, lack of resources, having to go hundreds of miles to find placements, by violence experiences as social workers and witnessing it on people we serve, we are upset by poverty, by lack of imagination, by bureaucracy, by sexist and racist managers, by budget driven decision making, by all the things Samm articulates so well. We don’t need therapy as a substitute tool rather than resources to do a fullfilling job. I am angry that rather than embrace their own craft, social workers crave validation as psychologists. I don’t want to be a psychologist, I don’t want to.be a psychotherapist, I don’t want to be the shadow of another profession. I am proud to be a social worker. I am proud that I have tried to be a true advocate for people I work alongside of, that I engage I the communities I work in. I am proud that when faced with crises social workers step up while therapists stare intently at their diaries. I am proud that we do rather than worship the story telling of the “how does it feeI” reframers. I am proud that I have held on to my values in 34 years of practice. Be a social worker and let that be enough I say. My inner voice is the song of the Chiffchaff.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 22:17:41 +0000

In reply to Samm. I wish you were in my team Samm.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:33:32 +0000

Sonia Appleby stood up for children and for safe ethical practice. She was hounded for standing up. What protection I as a newbie social worker have if I asked for compassion from my manager? I suspect not being a YouTuber with a BASW profile I would be an ex-probationer. Kayleigh makes excellent points as it happens but sadly in my world the structures and personalities I have to serve don’t share them. Get the job done whatever the personal cost is not the mentality that supports standing up for ourselves.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Samm

Samm — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:52:12 +0000

Well I feel miserable because I have zero autonomy to practice effectively. I feel miserable that my bosses have no shame in encouraging me to use foodbanks to feed “service users.” I feel miserable that racism and sexism gets reframed as banter when challenged. I feel miserable that most of what I do as a social worker makes little to no difference to the material circumstances of people. I feel miserable that expressing anything vaguely ‘political’ gets ridiculed and marginalised. I feel miserable that my competence is accounted for by a Regulator that understands only the bureaucracy of social work. I feel miserable that a self defining professional association adds next to no meaning to my practice. I feel miserable that social work education sucks the creativity out of students and ill prepares them to realities of work. I feel miserable that resilience has become a tool to oppress and bully us into accepting poor conditions and poor supervision. I feel miserable that a tweet, a podcast, a blog is all that passes for intellectually diverse discourse now. I feel miserable that social workers act like overexcited toddlers by an MBE. I feel miserable that social workers chase orthodoxies that give them career enhancing profiles while trampling over their oft bellowed ‘passion’ for anti-oppressive practice. I feel miserable that social work has become a parody self-help Hallmark card platitudes while those of us who still believe in a common struggle for a just and empowering social work are asked to consider whether a “tankie” is suited to social work. I feel miserable that social work now plays out the tropes of a rejected American romcom about shiny happy people who are slightly upset by their inner self doubt but hey presto all is well when the therapists come to heal.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:16:19 +0000

Maybe because black workers don’t have the support of their managers to be kind to themselves? Maybe because black colleagues here told us about how they have been treated compared to Kayleigh? Maybe because everything in social work is “racialised”? Maybe because the list of demoralised black workers is long? Maybe because social work is institutionally racist? Maybe because therapy is not readily available to black workers through their employers? Maybe because black workers are not heard?

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:40:04 +0000

Kayleigh being white does not invalidate the excellent advice she has given. I don’t get why saying being kind to yourself has to be racialised.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Olu

Olu — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:51:30 +0000

Happy for Kayleigh Evans that she has the support and fortitude to navigate a caring space for herself. No sympathy, no “you are a great social worker”, no “go home and recuperate”, no “all we can do is our best” affirmation from my manager. “Maybe social work is not for you” was the response when I said I was struggling and anxious about visiting an aggressive and abusive family. But then I am not white or young or British. The elephant is “people like us” values and endemic racism and ageism. No amount of personal growth compensates for that.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Chantelle

Chantelle — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:43:22 +0000

Astonishing that there is no mention of how racism impacts on perceptions and reactions. A white social worker acknowledging anxiety elicits sympathy and perhaps tea and cake. A black social worker daring to express feeling anxious is regarded with suspicion that they are not up to the task, their competence ccomes under scrutinity, their suitability for social work is questioned. Rates of disciplinaries and FtP referrals show us that. Great that some can have agency, choice and autonomy. Rest of us just grind on without the privilege.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Not a manager

Not a manager — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:51:10 +0000

In my world of permanent unpaid overtime, at times dangerously unmanageable work loads, bad diet, poor sleep, anxiety about how to avoid a disciplinary, desperately trying to hide being on anti-depressants and fear of being up before SWE for FtP allegations, getting through a long day and still having a job to return to counts as self care.