Continuation

They were fine up until one day when the husband calls Juliet and tells her that his wife fell and it seems like she's dead. As a social worker you need to learn how not to become so emotionally attached because things like this could happen to any of your patients, but she dashed out there and made sure the husband was alright and they had called the paramedics. They said they wouldn't take the body because they had no where to put it in the morgue. Juliet had to call everywhere to be able to have someone take her body. She said this was one of the hardest cases because they were both in it together, and now it's just only one.

One of her first cases

In the case she told me about, which was when she was first starting out to be out on the field. She talked about a married couple and how both of them were sick. They needed to have financial aid and receive money because they couldn't always make ends meet with the few hours they could work. They had moved out and found a place to stay in and they were perfectly fine for a couple of months. My mentor, Juliet, would go do random checkups to see how they were doing.

Case

As my mentor was talking to me about certain cases that stuck through with her and made her want to quit and just give up. It made me think and realize that maybe this isn't the major I want to pursue in life and maybe I'm not cut out for the job. But when thing that she told me about this was that all her hard work and all her determination made staying as a social worker worth every bit of it because the feeling of helping someone was the most rewarding thing . It's not about the money or how high of a position you have, it's about what you do to make a difference in someone's life.

Day 4, part 3

So they decided to take her to the doctor and have family visits and for her to be able to spend time with her family since she was living in a home that is provided by the company. She usually doesn't talk, and arranged furniture in a way to relieve stress and to express herself. But she made it clear that she wanted to go home and that she didn't care about the home that was being provided for her. So they decided on sending her home to see how that plays out and if it'll benefit her and her family.

Day 4, part 2

So I can't give out any specifics of what the meeting consisted of or of the patient due to confidentially. But I can give an overview, so basically she's an older woman who has mental retardation, and she has been with them for years, but she gets frustrated easily and the only way to get her to calm down is to go outside. So the problem was that she wanted to go home and finally be able to spend time with her family... To be continued.

Day 4

Today I got to listen to one of the meetings that the social workers usually have to decide on what it is that they have to do in order to be able to help out the patient and what measures to take for the well being of the patient.

Day 3

My blogs never posted! :(
Anyway, I got to sit in to one of the meetings that they had and it was pretty amazing. Just to actually get a feel of what it is that they do and how they try to help them. I can tell it's pretty difficult for the child and for any patient that is, but the social worker has to be there motivating them in every thing that the do. I was blown away.