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Icons? You mean smiley? Just click "go advanced" and you can find them on the right hand side of the screen.

Actually I dun really have a clear definition on that cause everyone and everything deserve to be HATE!

Dun you think having HATE makes one and those around you happy?

Oh thank you!

HATE stands for Happiness Always To Everyone!

Accountability and self-awareness is a very big part of the social work course. We get taught to use supervision sessions, peer support groups, reflective journals and self-care to prevent the onset of conditioning. All those things work really well for me because my ego's huge () but other social workers can have a hard time with it because they hate talking about themselves. They become social workers because they're driven by a desire to help people living with disadvantage, so talking about their personal feelings can feel irrelevant for them. But it's actually very important to be self-aware of everything we do in this job. Otherwise we run the risk of doing our job "just because it's our job" whereas we should be justifying all our actions in the context of social work ethical principles, even if it means going against organisation's expectations.

hello

Yeah, the removal of children from their parents is sad, but sometimes necessary. What sucks is the fact that so often children are removed when it's not necessary or only after an event occurs that could've easily been prevented with proper screening or education. And also, what scares me is that so many social workers in child protection become so used to their role that they begin thinking removal is the only option as opposed to a last resort.

A social worker. The degree is a Bachelor of Social Work. I'm not so sure with what target group I prefer to work with - I'm between youth casework or perhaps child protection (like the social workers on TV who kids away from families). Child protection more because it pays well and is more or less a guaranteed job out of uni since it's got quite a high turnover rate.. it's not very happy work, I suppose.

I'm pretty bad at reading Chinese. I can pick out 'you'...and 'chinese' and... 'computer'.. I'm sorry to say I don't know what that says. xD

I'm finishing up my final year at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. For the remainder of my course, though, I'm on field placement, so I'm doing some social research for a local community centre - not terribly exciting work, but it sure beats being stuck in a lecture theatre. Heh xD

The reading side of it is pretty stressful. I only did about four semesters with psych units in them and it was pretty intense stuff. Quite a few students (psych and social work alike) dropped off during that time. I think you'd do well though, since you have such a strong attachment to the subject matter.

Whereabouts do you study?

That was some good debatin' =]

So I suppose you're a psychologist, right? (or studying to become one)

aye aye cap'n!

..Though playing pokemon sounds a hell of a lot more interesting.