Beyond the others’ world : An essay about the experience of social work with a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome
The essay presents a reflection on being a foreign and inexperienced social worker within a Norwegian social work context. I discuss challenges I have met in my work with when Asperger syndrome is diagnosed and reflect on power relations and the issue of self-determination within the field, in addit...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Stavanger
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Comparative Social Work |
| Online Access: | http://journal.uia.no/index.php/JCSW/article/view/277 |
| Summary: | The essay presents a reflection on being a foreign and inexperienced social worker within a Norwegian social work context. I discuss challenges I have met in my work with when Asperger syndrome is diagnosed and reflect on power relations and the issue of self-determination within the field, in addition to analysing some critical incidents that made me rethink and reconstruct all of my experiences. I view my story from different angles and find different perspectives that show various ways of perceiving one thing. I discover the dangerousness of thinking in “black and white” and placing things in exclusive extremes, and lastly, I understand that I need to learn to solve problems by changing attitudes towards them.<br /><br /> |
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| ISSN: | 0809-9936 |