Avatar

MVGXD

@if-the-moon-turns-green / if-the-moon-turns-green.tumblr.com

Lilly/24/NYC

Aquarius anatomy

Mind: Ingenious and intuitive, unique and creative intelligence, aware and alert, projected into the cosmos
Spine: Can be saddled with emotional and psychic weight, responsive to massage, soreness
Eyes: Crystal and sparkling, remarkable, psychologically probing, visionary
Heart: Humanitarian and collectively focused, beats on behalf of the universe, scatters love throughout humanity
Calves: Containing energy, strength and aches, attractive
The levels of paperwork [social workers] are required to do are invariably burdensome. While this is problematic, the most problematic aspect of it is that paperwork almost always requires us to create some sort of fiction. More and more, paperwork asks for target treatment goals and progress notes that correspond with these treatment goals. Further, these treatment goals are supposed to be crafted in increasingly quantitative ways; counting the presence of symptoms and ideally symptom reduction as the treatment weeks pass. The expectations completely fly in the face of how humans actually function. Improvement cannot always be quantitatively measured, rarely happens in a linear fashion, and is nominally goal oriented. Progress is unpredictable, treatment goals are difficult to articulate, and symptoms are not experienced numerically. So, we are left to either treat our clients according to the demands of the paperwork, which leaves us feeling like we are somehow abandoning them, or we treat our clients in a way that feels more authentic and we end up falsifying or editorializing the work we did in order to best fit the note. Either way, we are left feeling less than honest and more than uneasy.