> [Krimel]
> In "The Science of Good and Evil" Shermer talks
> about the evolution of both
> kinds of morality, (note good and evil in the
> title). He does not say that
> prehistoric people were good; only that they lived
> in groups that
> approximate the number of people our brains are
> large enough to know
> personally. Knowing these details about people in
> our communities allows for
> kinds of social control over behavior that are not
> as effective when dealing
> with people we do not know.
Interesting.
I hear a lot from the residents, "You don't know
me." The ones that cultivate trust (and notions of
security) with staff, these residents calm down more
easily, open-up, and will dialogue with you.
Unfortunately gaining trust is not that easy, and I'd
say a lack of trust, though to a lesser degree at
times, is still present when the residents leave. For
one, staff hand out consequences. Staff are perceived
as 'bad guys'. Whereas the therapists at the main
building, removed from the residential units, just
talk with the residents and are seen usually as 'the
good guys'. Therapists can be involved in taking away
home visits, and this does create distrust, but since
therapists usually 'are there for them' in a more
comfort type of personality and are not on the unit
with the residents involved in the daily and nightly
misbehaviors of the residents, the residents put on a
nicer face for their therapists to get acknowledgment
from somebody in authority that they (residents) are
making it through the program in therapy. Sometimes
the therapists though are put into positions where
they don't want to lose the trust of a resident and
since they (therapists) are not on the unit, thus
ivory tower comes into play, the therapists will trust
residents over staff believing the resident can't be
that bad, can they? But the therapist, I remind you,
see these residents for months on end, with good
therapy sessions and the therapists wonder why the
staff are giving bad reports about a resident: and
thus here lies a conflict that has not much to do
about the well-being of the resident - discipline
(staff) versus therapy (therapist: or the 'just talk
with the resident' mentally). Yet, day to day the
just talk with them, oh we try, really it would be
much easier, doesn't hack it with people that will
argue and sometimes argue with you just to make you
angry, and they (some residents) get a high off of
making other people mad.
Krimel, I'm wondering, do you suggest that people
are morally hard-wired bad due to babies not going
around trying to kill people? Where does your
suggestion/basis come from? I really am interested in
knowing.
thanks.
blue sky,
SA
P.S. I know I'm writing a lot about my job, but I find
using real world/direct experience/empirical truths
during this [MD] to be helpful.
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