Linda, the creator of the Fried Social Worker Blog wrote to me asking: “Do you have any suggestions for social workers who are concerned about clients stalking them? A few days ago a colleague was telling me of her experience of being stalked by an ex-client. I started searching the web for good resources and [...]
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I spent many years in the Mental Health Emergency Services unit of VPD getting mentally ill people safely to treatment facilities. For nine years I managed to do this without ever harming a client, at the same time always keeping the nurses and social workers that I worked with out of harm’s way. [...]
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A situation that I’ve seen play out time and again in the field is where the social worker or nurse does the right thing and requests police back up. The police arrive, the social worker and police basically introduce themselves and then everyone troops into the house. No one stops to explain the purpose of [...]
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