Bazooka Therapy

We, as a nation give high praise to our men and women overseas, our doctors, nurses, police and fire fighters. Social workers and advocates are often overlooked when the parades are forming. A dear friend of mine was a Dept. of Social Services case worker in Chelsea Ma., a blue collar, low and medium income suburb of Boston for many years. She would walk into homes, often without police escort, and try to talk battered women and their children out of their home and into shelters. She told me she blew through the scary moments by using what she called "Bazooka therapy". You go in and offer what services you can, all the while, secretly imagining lining the parents up against a wall, shouting "fire in the hole!" and pulling the trigger. She said it was the only way she could be professional with a family after a daycare provider reported finding an adult's personal hair in a child's diaper.

Hats off to the social workers, these are unsung heroes of our society.