A random thought!!!

Here is your last warning, you may not want to read. 

Can I just say I love my major. I find most of my classes interesting and really enjoy learning about people. What is my major, you may be wondering? It is social work. Social workers can have a variety of jobs. So when you think off the people that take kids away from parents that is one type of social worker. Also for the recorded social workers are all about family preservation if you child is taken away form you it is for a good reason.

You may now be wondering why should only certain people read this blog post? and what do i want to do with social work?

 Here is your answer, when I started school I wanted to be an advocate for people with disabilities and work with people that have mental disorders and illness. Well after almost three years of working this group of people at my last job. I decided that it was not in the cards for me. I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would ( that may be to poor employee training at the facility).  The nice thing about being a social worker is that their are so many options. Well in the last year or two I have discovered that I have a hige interest in child advocacy, more specifically with Reactive Attachment Disorder. I have been focusing on this and looking into. I have also had an interest in Domestic violence and the impact it has on men and women. 

However I have found a new interest that fascinates me. Are you ready???. Okay well after speaking with a few professors and attending some work shops. I want to be a sex therapist ( oh no the dirty s word).  Now that you've laughed, pull your mind out of the gutter. Come on put your right hand in the air now your left and pull your self out of the gutter. 

Their are a few reasons why I have decided to go with this. One is that it is such a hush hush subject. Most people can't even say sex without blushing. I also think sex ed should be taught in schools. I think this because  how many parents actually talk to there kids about it? not very many. I am all about prevention, teenagers are curious if they can't talk to their parents about it, who can they talk too? Stats have proven time and time again that this can help reduce teenage pregnancies, reduce spreading of STD's. So why not educate them and if they choose  to mess around why not give them birth control to help prevent the things listed above. I know we like to think that all kids are good and don't think about this stuff and don't ever let curiosity or emotions get the best of them.. I would love to tell you that they do and by educating and making condoms accessible, you are not encouraging sexual behavior, you are providing protections for those that are deciding to be sexually active. 

Enough with that tangent though, 1 in 3 women in Utah are sexually assaulted in some forum or another and have no one to talk to. This is where my interest is. I want to be able to help these women or young girls deal with what has happened to them and help them discover new and healthy relationships without have the barrier of having had a bad experience or experiences sexually. When someone is assaulted many people choose to deal with it in different ways and because of that. It will impact all relationships they currently have or will have. If they aren't able to deal with the traumatic experience they have had, it will be hard for them to maintain and forum future healthy relationships. 

Hope you enjoyed my random tangent of the day.