psychiatric social worker

(Social Welfare) social welfare (in Britain) a qualified person who works with mentally-ill people and their families, based in a psychiatric hospital, child guidance clinic, or social services department area team, and who may also be an approved social worker

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The department employs over 300 psychiatric social workers, psychiatrists, and support staff who partner with education professionals.

Helping those who come here alone: a surge of young, unaccompanied immigrants is met with a broad range of programs intended to salve the effects of trauma, heal family relationships, and help with immigration legal issues

Under our system we end up having a postman running the police, a car fitter commanding the army, an economist as head of schools, and a psychiatric social worker in charge of the Olympics.

SHAKE-UP FOR A WHELK STALL

In addition to his education he has experience working in an intensive care unit and as a psychiatric social worker. He has received the Jim Elliot Award for his bicycling several awards for his poetry and the National Hero Overcoming Arthritis Award from the Arthritis Foundation.

The 7 1/2 Habits of Highly Humorous People

Robbyn, a psychiatric social worker, was stabbed more than 30 times by the psychotic Air Force veteran at her county Health Department office.

Fallen heroes of public human services

Diamond (psychiatry, University of Wisconsin) and Scheifler (psychiatric social worker) outline a framework for clients, therapists, and prescribers working together to make medication decisions and manage mental illness so that clients can achieve personal goals.

Treatment collaboration; improving the therapist, prescriber, client relationship

They attended more classes, went to a summer school, and were persuaded to apply for entry to Hillcroft College in Surrey, from where Margaret went on to the London School of Economics and qualified as a psychiatric social worker and Mary secured a secretarial post in London.

Heaters may warm the body, but kind words warm the heart

Voirrey, a busy housewife with two young children, had taken up embroidery as a hobby and as relaxation from her work as a part-time psychiatric social worker in Liverpool.

Voirrey Embroidery: A centre of excellence

The Home Office is thought to have objected, but was overruled and Bryan was released into the care of a psychiatric social worker and psychiatrist.

BACKGROUND: He should be dead, say relatives

Nicky was five-days-old when he was adopted by map publisher Frank Campbell and his wife Sheila, a psychiatric social worker.

DJ's dad a former IRA man

A psychiatric social worker has told a murder trial jury how convicted killer George Leighers was discharged from an aftercare scheme - six months before he is alleged to have killed again.

Care worker's visits to accused

If your doctor can't refer you to a psychiatrist, psychologist, or psychiatric social worker also experienced in the unique issues of MS, ask your nearest Society chapter for a referral.

"Sexual healing": sex therapy to the rescue. (A Valentine's Day Special)

Ms Galletly, a forensic psychiatric social worker in Preston, was found by the couple who had hoped to rent the property where she lived in Chapel Street, Ormskirk.