I've been wanting to blog about this since forever and i'm finally getting down to doing it.
Came across this when i was surfing tumblr randomly:
I was a lit kid and i could totally connect with this haha. I used to do Wilfred Owen's poems and we were analyzing a bending black shadow and my tutor said something about the soldier being forlorn and missing home, after being out alone in the battle field for so long.
While it is fun dissecting poems and going through each word and stanza interpreting them in our own ways, sometimes i do a double take and wonder if we are looking too much into things. I find myself often facing this even now, now that i am in the social services.
When a client says that she is fine, do we pursue? After exploring for the tenth time and she maintains that she is coping (but we disagree when we pit it against our own living standards), do we still pursue? Having went through episodes of heated discussions, i have learnt enough to know that we all develop our own baselines for intervention in the profession. They might not be the catch-all, they might not sit well with everyone, they might not be the best baselines ever. But, at the end of the day, with everything being so subjective, is there ever a "right" baseline?
My first is health but i'm not going to stop exploring and expanding.
What's yours?
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