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- Relationship Status:
- Single
- About Me:
- Still single after all these years! I play jazz guitar in one of the local music school combos, but am into guitar synthesisers and soundscaping, too. I'm into weird literature (aka 'horror'), particularly English writer Ramsey Campbell and the American H.P. Lovecraft. I am very fond of cats and tarantulas. Greek, Italian, Asian cuisine do it for me. After the company where I worked folded, I started studying again - social work, although amazingly I wouldn't call myself 'social'.
- Genesis is:
- The greatest band
- My first Genesis show was...
- Brussels, 1976 - Trick of the Tail Tour
- Favourite Genesis album
- Selling England by the Pound
- Favourite Solo Career:
- Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett
- Favourite Non-Genesis Music/Band/Artist
- King Crimson
- Length of Genesis fandom:
- 31-35 years
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This is my job, but as far as clients are concerned, this is their life 24/7.
I can go home, get on with my 'real' life, put it all behind me, if you will [and it is vital that I can & do, particularly after the inevitable bad days]. My clients do not have this luxury: I am a transient part of their ongoing reality. There is so much they could teach us, more than any thesis or PHd paper I suspect.
The day I become convinced that I know what Im doing, then I'll be in serious trouble. The greatest challenge we all face is complacency....
I sometimes feel that it would help both groups if they could spend some prolonged quality time with clients; rather than trying to catagorise and analyse them based upon the latest, & often quite contradictory or vague, politically correct jargon.
Often, the more they attempt to be objective and non-judgemental, the more they [perhaps unintentionally] become fixed & prejudiced in their attitudes towards family members & those who deliver the day to day care.
In the process, true empowerment of the client is often the first casualty.
It would be understandable if I could believe that many of these strategies are truly in the client's best interests, but it is incredible how often financial considerations [in the case of social services] or time constraints, short term-ism & indecision [in the case of both social services and psychologists] ultimately results in knee-jerk reactions leaving the client with a worse quality of life than they had formerly, lowers the morale of those with a duty of care who {unlike social workers and psychologists} are as often not, underpaid for what they do; because they are driven by a deep commitment to their clients' welfare and are usually in the front line when it comes to managing the consequences of these strategies.
Be a good social worker Hubert, you are in a position to do a lot of good, but know this, learn to look beyond the confines of received wisdom. There are too many examples of abuses being overlooked by social services, spmetimes the victim's needs are neglected while an inordinate effort is expended trying to empaphise with the perpatrator.
Sorry to go on, but, as you know, this field is much more than a 9 to 5.
My music keeps me grounded [it is also one of the most effective tools when dealing with autism].
What do you think Hubert?
Ps. while you're thinking it over, welcome to the community.