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• Pet Therapy

  A couple of years back, I visited a residential home with a woman (that I’ll call A) who needed to move into residential care. She didn’t particularly want to, but she had accepted the need with a heavy heart. She didn’t have any other... Posted Jul 26 2008, 06:23 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, health, care home, residential home, kitten, cat, photo, pet therapy, pets as therapy

• Motivation and reflection

  Getting satisfaction from a job is an important factor of any career decision and ‘wanting to help people’ is an oft-quoted reason for wishing to enter the general ’social care’ arena. All good things - but this isn’t altruism... Posted Jul 17 2008, 05:30 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, work, health, career choice, United Kingdom, cat, helping professions, self-reflection, Employment, confucius, career, reflection

• Random Sunday Mumblings

  Just for the record, I’ve added a page with additional links and resources because I felt the front page was getting a bit clogged up! I intend to add another page for other blogs at some point but it might take a few weeks for me to organise -... Posted Jul 13 2008, 09:04 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: work, kitten, cat, links