Question for Social workers

[snotthatfurrry]

If a service user were to tell you they had developed a crush on you, what would usually happen?
This is about a friend with some mental health problems, who has suffered quite a lot of trauma this last year. I urged her to her her social worker, because I was worried about her. Now she is upset with me because she has been passed to a different social worker and apparently this should not have happened.

I would have immediately asked to have the case reassigned in those circumstances.

Agree with PP. No question about it.

Oh good. I'm actually the social worker and was told by another social wormer that it's not a problem: unless I also have a reciprocal crush. So now being accused of that. I've never had to deal with this situation before, and feel terrible. She has started a complaint about me, and it's left me wondering whether I overstep professional boundaries 8n my efforts to be friendly

Sounds like a good case to reflect on in supervision?

Yeh agree with the above...case needs reassigned