Social workers’ guilt over unmet needs

Good social work practice heavily depends both on practitioners’ skills and knowledge and the support and resources available to them.
But the latter is often severely lacking.
In a recent Community Care article, a mental health social worker wrote about the guilt she felt from being unable to deliver person-centred care to people on her caseload while addressing an “unmanageable” waiting list of those needing support.
She wrote of experiencing resistance from her management wh