In the US they’re people who’s personal lives are in absolute shambles, they make very low wages, and they usually have at least one substance abuse problem.
The real world sucks. We need to bring back mental asylums and not the creepy, gulag style ones. Just modern, clean asylums with guards and a safe environment for social workers. Sending social workers into unsecured (i.e. real world) environments is not going to work. At all.
It depends on the social workers.
I don't know about the US, but in Australia most social workers fall in to two categeories:
Well meaning, trying hard, and (basically) pushing shit uphill trying to work within the system
Incompetent, self-absorbed, vindictive and uses the system to fuck people around for amusement.
There are a LOT more of type 2, by my experience.
In the US they’re people who’s personal lives are in absolute shambles, they make very low wages, and they usually have at least one substance abuse problem.
They are barely better than their “clients”
The real world sucks. We need to bring back mental asylums and not the creepy, gulag style ones. Just modern, clean asylums with guards and a safe environment for social workers. Sending social workers into unsecured (i.e. real world) environments is not going to work. At all.