My boss ( Licensed clinical social worker, non practicing much now due to running a freaking big ass company) She over heard me coaching one of our new interns. Last year of their masters degree. Shes got her first new client tomorrow totally stressing. So im giving her 20 ways from Sunday about asking for signs/symptoms of issues. HOW to ask, How to ask 10 ways around a single "thing" someone says to get a whole picture.
IE. I have panic attacks.
Answer.
Ok, when do they happen. Time of day. What is going on when they happen. How does your body feel. Breathing, Head, vision. Heartrate. Does it happen before ( in our fake senario) School, after school? When Dad drinks? When he drinks does he yell, throw things, retreat to his room, absent, overly affectionate.
All these things answer panic attack, without it just being " I have panic attacks" which is not clinically accepted and insurance WILL deny the claim.
Anyway there were a dozen things She asked and I answered 10 ways to get MORE info about it.
After she leaves. R is like. If you ever go to school to be a social worker. It will be so damn easy. You train the therapists how to be therapists better then the schools do. You are AS GOOD as their supervisors. And you dont have any of the training.
No I also dont have any of their resources. BUT I can do this part. I can teach the babies how to get going. And then I get the famous statement I hear all the time. I forget when im talking to you about clincial stuff that you arent trained as one... I get this from Nurses, The therapists all like 5 types we now have from a psychologist, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists then all the interns... lol my doctor. An ANP. I hear it... I just dont have your license and school debt.
And sometimes I like it. I know I can sit on their level and talk..
AND. I wish I had the mental fortitude to do the years of school I would need and I kinda am sad at not sitting in the "professional" world with them.
But Me lol. Ive been doing payroll for 4 years. 4 FREAKING years. And I realized today. With my raise LAST YEAR. I make 1k less a year from an unlicensed therapist. Its 9k less then the licensed. In our company if you dont "bring in money" you dont make as much. IE seeing clients. But operations director dosent see clients and SHE STILL Gets paid out the ass, BUT I do get compensated nicely. And I do handle a LOT of shit. I was looking at getting the next level of HR classes and certs. I have my human resources manager but I can get the next level cert. Its 1500 for the TRAINING Course ( Not required) But the test is only 600.. BUT its highly suggested to take the training course. Im trying to find a way around it.
Ugh. I cant afford 2k for the training course and a pass fail test... Even the LCSW test isnt THAT much. ( The company paid for Z's with a contract lol, so I know cuz i literally wrote the check)
Stupid...
Grrrr. I just want to do BETTER and I know a lot of people are like HR, seriously the most hated role in a company. But im really good at it in this role...
I did get a book called the 9 faces of HR which uses your personality testing to type you in your modes. which REALLY was interesting, Im "the fixer" as my primary personality trait which tracks lol. It and my secondary one align with my personality testing. In any event. Im enjoying this bit. I found some other trainings and I could do those. But training budget dosent go far for me like it can for therapists... I should just stick to more inexpensive trainings I guess. Ill figure something out.
Its funny because some of the things overlap. Like I was chatting with one of our therapists about Manslows hierarchy of needs. He was talking about it in terms of what clients/humans need and I was using it for employees. Funny how it crosses over.
My mini me wants to watch how to train your dragon, so going to go do that.
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