It is important for me, as a Social Worker to implement the best practice I can achieve for my clients. Social Workers may increase in empathy as we walk a mile through our client’s experiences. As I am coming close to graduating and joining this profession, some questions I struggle with come from my own personal experiences and insecurities such as; will I be able to compartmentalize my own counter-transferences, what are my fears, will I be good enough, will they like me, what motivates me to do this, can I really do this and what will I do about it? Since I want to understand my clients struggles, I want to effectively be able to understand their mindset as much as to understand their thinking process. While some clients’ mental state may be predictable and/or easy to understand, for …show more content…
It is safe to say this may occur if the client’s reality is unpredictable and disconnected.
Impressions of the piece holistically
The story of John Nash is about a man described as a brilliant economist and mathematician, a genius, dealing with severe Schizophrenia and auditory hallucinations and delusions. His delusions were of grandiosity, persecutory and paranoia. His hallucinations consisted of the 3 characters he believed were real; Charles, Parcer and …show more content…
In Alpha’s case, she is not yet willing to agree to her diagnosis. Prior to my exposure to Alpha, she was admitted into a facility for four month to help treat her eating disorder. It was during this period that the doctors diagnosed her with schizophrenia and put her on medication. Last year, after leaving the facility – and a brief cannabis “drug rage” – she had her father pay $5,000 for her and her mother to fly to Peru to do an herbal cleansing in order to rid herself of the medication they had her on in the