This article was very touching to me, and it was a little bit hard for me to read the beginning of it. Like Patricia Deegan, I know for a fact that many other mentally disabled or physically disabled people feel more defined by their sickness, than by their own name. This article was able to remind me about one of the reasons I want to become a counselor.
People want real relationships. It is understandable that counselors and social workers do not want to become too emotionally attached with clients, because they always need to be terminated, but clients sometimes only have these workers to talk to. Our pure goal as a social worker is to help people, and if being thoughtful and caring for a client is what you need to do to help them, then
People want real relationships. It is understandable that counselors and social workers do not want to become too emotionally attached with clients, because they always need to be terminated, but clients sometimes only have these workers to talk to. Our pure goal as a social worker is to help people, and if being thoughtful and caring for a client is what you need to do to help them, then