March 30, 2009

Really?

Dear Diary;

I was having a conversation with my mother this morning on the way to the store and she was asking me about the house and how yesterday went. I didn’t say much about it yesterday because I really just didn’t want to talk about it. So I was telling her about some of the incients that I wrote about in the last entry and I was getting pretty upset about it and do you know what she told me? She told me to stop being so judgemental of the staff. She told me that I didn’t know anything about what these people were like and that maybe the way they were interacting with the residents was the way that it worked best. She said that because I was only there for one day, I couldn’t possibly know how things worked around there and she told me not to "act like that" in reference to the staff (because I was coming across very cold towards them, for good reason I think).

I was like.. seriously? You’re actually going to defend them and tell me that you think what they’re doing is not wrong?? She literally fought with me about it for 20 minutes! I’m like- you honestly think they handled those situations the right way? you think grabbing someone by the wrist and pulling them off the couch is okay? You’ve GOT to be kidding me.

She kept refering to the residents as "kids" and I corrected her SEVERAL times and told her they were ADULTS. She goes "Well, we’ll just call them kids because they have the mind of a kid"

….. wtf? *pulls hair out*

super_hot_female

March 31, 2009

I wonder how your mom would like being put in a time out for asking a simple question. Sometimes parents just don’t get it.

I had the same problem with people perceiving the young adults who lived in the residential home (they were ages 18-25) as kids. They were not kids. Several had jobs and they were trying to live away from their parents for the very first time, even though they had mental health issues and often had drug/alcohol issues.

Lovely Resa

Wow! That is shocking!

xPrettyInPunkx

i’m assuming these clients are MR, or as we call them now ID….and it really upsets me when ppl call them kids. i basically do the same thing that you observed yesterday…except i don’t text message all day haha i do text but my phone does leave my hand lol

Stig

I agree that the immediate staff should know the clients best and how to deal with them. However what you mentioned here and in the prev. entry sounds like client abuse. You should look into your companies procedures and protocols regarding this. Usually filed as restrictive procedures. What type of clients are you dealing with? At risk youth? Adults with disabilities?

My experience tells me that if a client complained of how they’re treated by staff(no matter how trivial) and a gov’t agency finds out. WOw, heads will roll, questions will be asked, and a lot of paper work will follow. But then again the organization that I once worked for was properly set up to advocate for their clients. Hope yours is too.

RYN: It’s not a joke. It’s a verified virus and has already infected many people’s computers, it is just going to be more aggressive as of April 1st. If you can access the websites noted in my entry, you most likely have not been infected.

Raven E

April 2, 2009

Does your mom have any actual experience working in a place like that???