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I'm a licensed clinical social worker (LC SW) with almost 25 years of experience.

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I'm a licensed clinical social worker (LC SW) with almost 25 years of experience. Due to my experience, I'm assigned some of the more challenging cases at our clinic. I'm part of a monthly LCSW supervision group in which when I bring up my challenging cases another social worker (who I think has about 8 years of experience), immediately confronts me on my clinical judgment. This has happened several times, and I haven't said anything to her about it. The strange thing is when our supervisor asks her about her caseload she says her clients are all doing great. I don't know if that's because she has a less challenging caseload or she doesn't want to admit that she has clients with whom she is struggling. Regardless, I'm tired of her questioning my clinical acuity. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with her going forward? Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous

    It doesn't sound like the supervisor backs the other social worker who questions you. That's a big plus. You have options. You can either tell the other social worker to let the supervisor run the meeting and ask the questions, or tell the other that you're willing to discuss details after the meeting, or find a way to flip the attention back on to the other social worker. I have trouble believing she never has clients who are challenging. I hope you choose a way to level the playing field and don't let this continue much longer. Consider telling her that you prefer that the questions come from the supervisor, or that if the supervisor doesn't have any questions about your cases, she shouldn't worry about you. Ask your Supervisor if you can meet with the Supervisor separately due to the complexity of your cases. Good luck with this!

  2. Anonymous

    Can you provide a little bit more clarity? Why is the other social worker questioning your acuity? Is she peer reviewing your case load? Given the confidentiality involved, I'm just trying to understand under what circumstances would she be questioning your work? Does your team peer review all of your cases? Context helps. If you are mutually providing the back on each other's work, then that makes sense even though it may be uncomfortable for you because you're not used to people asking different types of questions. If it is not mutual feedback, then there may be an opportunity for you to have a one-to-one with your colleague to try to better understand the root cause of her questions. It could be that she isn't as articulate as she could be, and she may still be learning as opposed to questioning your judgment.

  3. Anonymous

    My impression reading this sounds like your colleague with less years of experience is questioning how you handle your cases. If that’s the case, maybe sit down with this person and your supervisor together. Talk about a boundary and balancing respect. Both require, I’m sure certain practices that are shared. But treating each case the same isn’t reflective of your line of work. One size does not fit all. I think this could happen in many work environments across different industries. When I’m challenged by a person with little to no experience than myself I ask the question, walk me through those steps from beginning to end of how you might handle this. Usually I’m met with silence. I find people like to critique without having a solution or like to be critical because they think they know it all. Just my 2 cents.

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