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greenstiles":2z5k649y said:Good now that were past the usual defence and attack stage of criticism I'm begining to respect that you have a hard job to do, and as you say, damed if you do and damed if you don't.
So I've offered you some respect, so how about coming across the bridge a little and recognise that there is an element of social workers that have the wrong attitude to the job and perhaps 'are' looking for some closure to their own past wrongly by helping others instead of sorting them selves out 1st.
I can imagine like a lot of people who go learn Psychology are on a search for some personal answers, the same might be true for social workers wanting to help and show compassion, would you agree ?
we all have reasons why we choose to do certain jobs , it is known i suppose that every social worker or social care worker has a story to tell. I would argue that it is often our own life experiences which equip us with necessary skills for social work, its what makes us good at the job. Im a working class boy from the mean streets of Birmingham, For me social work was always vocational, without meaning to be big headed im fooking good at it. My job as i see it is to temper the harshness of the system i represent, to protect my service users from the oppression from the very powerful local authority. to treat all ( paedophiles, child abuser, etc etc with the dignity and respect owed to them.
for the majority of the SW's i know stress and burnout comes not from the nature of the cases but dealing with your own bosses, begging for funding and services they wont provide. It is this that leaves SWs flaky IMO
I have recently had a 12 year old boy (himself raped and abused as a child) selling himself on the streets for drugs and it wasnt until i circumvented my TM and AM and emailed a head of service with my concerns that this child was about to be killed, that something was done.
The sws i depise are the tick box social workers, who have forgotten their SW values, who abuse their power and postition, who like in Taffy's case misrepresent the powers that they have, who wont take the necessary risks to maintain a child with its family, unfortunately these are the ones who dont care and as a result dont burn out, whats more they get on i nthe job and become mamnagers because money and managing budgets matters more to them than children's lives. ahhh but dont get me started on that