Social Worker Sharing

  I find it really interesting that in Social Work we talk so often about everyone being an individual and we look at people’s strengths whereas when we are children in school, we are expected from a young age to fit into a specific box and be able to do Maths and English for example. When I was in a training session this week, they had set a multiple intelligence survey for us to complete before the next session that is usually used with children to establish what areas they are smart in. It refers to 8 different things, all of which bring in the different aspects of someone’s personality so if you are really good at music you would be seen as music smart or if you are really good at Maths you would be math or logic smart. I like the approach that this takes because I feel that it recognises that everyone has their own strengths, and it is not the same for everyone. They say that anyone who completes it will have 3 areas that stand out for them and that’s what happened with ...