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SOCIAL WORKER, CLINICAL

Specialty Definition: SOCIAL WORKER, CLINICAL

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Assists patients and their families with personal and environmental difficulties which predispose illness or interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care: Works in close collaboration with physicians and other health care personnel in patient evaluation and treatment to further their understanding of significant social and emotional factors underlying patient's health problem. Helps patient and family through individual or group conferences to understand, accept, and follow medical recommendations. Provides service planned to restore patient to optimum social and health adjustment within patient's capacity. Utilizes community resources to assist patient to resume life in community or to learn to live within limits of disability. Prepares patient histories, service plans, and reports. Participates in planning for improving health services by interpreting social factors pertinent to development of program. Provides general direction and supervision to workers engaged in clinic home service program activities. Works in general hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, drug and alcohol abuse centers, or related health programs. May be employed as consultant in other agencies. Usually required to have knowledge and skill in casework methods acquired through degree program at school of social work. (references)
 Provides psychiatric social work assistance to mentally or emotionally disturbed patients of hospitals, clinics, and other medical centers, and to their families, collaborating with psychiatric and allied team in diagnosis and treatment plan: Investigates case situations and presents information to PSYCHIATRIST (medical ser.) 070.107-014 and PSYCHOLOGIST, CLINICAL (profess. & kin.) 045.107-022 and other members of health team, on patient's family and social background pertinent to diagnosis and treatment. Helps patients to respond constructively to treatment and assist in adjustment leading to and following discharge. Interprets psychiatric treatment to patient's family and helps to reduce fear and other attitudes obstructing acceptance of psychiatric care and continuation of treatment. Serves as link between patient, psychiatric agency, and community. May work directly in treatment relationship with patients, individually or in groups, in consultation with PSYCHIATRIST (medical ser.). May refer patient or patient's family to other community resources. Usually required to have knowledge and skill in casework methods acquired through degree program at school of social work. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SOCIAL WORKER, CLINICAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4F 43 49 41 4C      57 4F 52 4B 45 52 2C      43 4C 49 4E 49 43 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001111 01000011 01001001 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011 01000101 01010010 00101100 00100000 01000011 01001100 01001001 01001110 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#67 &#73 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#87 &#79 &#82 &#75 &#69 &#82 &#44 &#32 &#67 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 0043 0049 0041 004C      0057 004F 0052 004B 0045 0052 002C      0043 004C 0049 004E 0049 0043 0041 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53493743354625749524539521423746434843373546

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