Friday, March 15, 2013

As a social worker,  I believe I write short stories on each family I encounter. I only get a glimpse into their lives and then have to assess and write a report. In doing so, I do my best to just state the facts. Sometimes it can be very difficult to keep my "opinions" out of the report. But I want whoever reads it to be presented with just the fact and without any biases or opinions. Sometimes this is not easy as history has shown us. Many of our history stories are written by a person who had one glimpse of a particular incident and wrote it as best as they saw it but sometimes it was not how others would have seen the exact same thing. We all have different interpretations when it comes to what we see and writing about it is no different. When we write it is from our own perspective. We all have different writing skills and levels and see things different. It's the same thing in conversations. One person can interpret something they heard to completely different as to what the person meant. How can things stay universal and how can social work work for everyone?