Tasks Tasks Tasks

Today we are going to finish our first group-work with the task 3.1 and the paper we had to write. The cool thing about working with google docs is that we were able to work on the paper simultaneously. And we even used the chat function at Google to talk about the contents of the paper and we gave opposite feedback. We had some challenge with the Referencing because it is the first time we all had to work on the standarts of the Harvard System of Referencing but I hope we made it. During the last week I completely forgot to read Comer chapter 8 that was the task without task for last week. So I will do that today and I will watch the screen lecture.

Task 3.1

I started my task 3.1 today. Well I shouldn´t say my task because it is our first group work in the online-course. I started reading the Comer chapter 4 and this time it only took 2 hours. That was pretty cool but to be honest the reading was a little boring. I mean I already heard about classifications (ICD/DSM) and diagnosis and during the reading I had a strange thought in my mind. Do I really want to know that not every diagnosis is right? Will it become my personal battlefield in later jobs if I question everything? Specially diagnoses of clinicians!? I´ve heard several social workers complaining about the cooperation with doctors and clinicians because they were to theoretic and did not understand the individual or they made up the wrong diagnosis of a mental disorder. For example a guy that was diagnosed with a depression that ended up beeing a borderliner ...

Balance

Wow! Without balance we are nothing ... we are not even we ... we are only I. 

Impressive little movie that I have already seen before in my first semester at the University of Applied Science. But it gets a total diffrent meaning now after knowing a little bit about the systemic approach. I am so curious about the next chat and the discussion we are going to have *yeay*.

I explain the movie as follows: The brain - the plattform - the I - can only be healthy and "normal" if it has a balance. Every part (the humanlike figures on the plattform) reacts to the diffrent actions of the other parts to keep the balance. But as soon as something is wrong (the case) the whole system is disturbted and the balance is lost because every part reacts egoistic and doesn´t care about the balance anymore. The parts lose itself and destroy the system. I define the case as Mental Disorder and the humanlike figures as clear thoughts.

Task 2.1 - finally done!

Well what should I say? I managed to finish the task 2.1 and it was fun! After watching the screen lecture I had so many ideas on how to built my "own" SORC-scheme. Especially because I was lucky to do my internship at a company that consults and works with people who abuse alcohol or drugs. Due to the fact that I did or I tried to consult many clients myself I was amazed who true the SORC really works. I mean working there really made my mind up about long-term consequences and I believe that it is very hard for an addicted to really see or understand that. The short-term consequences are all that matters. So, I hope the tasks go on like this because the first one was fun and kept my mind thinking and working. Later on I will watch "Balance" and do task 2.2. I´ll keep you updated as usual.

Day 10 - time management fails

Well I planned to watch the screen lecture and complete my first task on the last weekend. But my time management was a mess and instead of watching and reading I spent my time doing other things. Today is Wednesday which means that I have to hurry because I have to complete the first weeks task untill Friday. I will keep you updated.