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• Hospital social worker


  Serves to assist patients in dealing with the sometimes-overwhelming effects of hospitalization
• Hospital Social Worker

  
  

  Patients and families of patients are often under a lot of emotional pressure and financial stress due to illness or injury
• Hospital social worker


  • Help patients meet needs after discharge, like the need for home-based care and rehabilitative services
• Hospital social worker


  Helps patients and their families navigate the process of illness and injury, from hospitalization to recovery
• What does a hospital social worker do?

  1. Act as liaisons for patients to navigate the health care system

  2. Provide emotional support during times of crisis

  3. Conduct psychosocial assessment of patient upon admittance

  4. Work with patient on aftercare and procuring services

  5. Educate other health care professionals about underlying issues
• Hospital social workers don't just advocate on the behalf of patients, instead they work closely with the medical team, family, and community stakeholders to ensure each patient has the support system they need recover from their illness or injury
• Criminal justice social worker


  Social workers serving clients in the criminal justice system, including offenders and their families
• Most criminal behavior stems from unmet social, emotional, psychiatric, financial, and developmental needs
• What does a criminal justice social worker do?

  1. Conduct psychosocial assessments to identify underlying issues

  2. Work with clients to resolve issues through coping skills training, life skills development, case management, and home visits
• Social welfare policy


  Includes healthcare, empowerment, housing and other programs geared towards assisting the poor, unemployed and marginalized in society
• Examples of social welfare programs

  • Medicaid
  • Aid to families with dependent children
  • Women, infants, and children program
  • Veteran programs
• Research areas in social welfare policy

  • Systems of care for children/families/elderly
  • Community, organization and policy development
  • Race, class and gender
  • Health and healthcare disparities
  • Violence and victimization
  • Mental health and prevention/intervention
• Role of social workers in social welfare policy


  Help craft state and local policies, oversee administration of social programs, work directly with recipients of assistance to ensure they meet qualifications and receive the help they need
• School social worker


  Work within school systems to provide services to students to enhance their emotional well-being and improve their academic performance
• Issues school social workers help address

  • Truancy
  • Social withdrawal
  • Overaggressive behaviors
  • Rebelliousness
  • Effects of special physical, emotional or economic problems
  • Substance abuse
  • Sexuality issues in the higher-grade levels
• Possible job functions of school social workers

  • Conducting bio-psychosocial assessments and social histories
  • Assessing students for various issues
  • Developing and implementing treatment and discharge plans
  • Providing direct therapeutic services
  • Providing crisis management services
  • Advocating for student services and best interests
  • Providing case management services
  • Providing trainings and workshops
  • Conducting home visits
  • Identifying and resolving ethical issues
  • Managing and supervising staff
  • Contributing to a multidisciplinary treatment team
• Military social work


  A specialized field of practice that provides support and interventions to military personnel, retirees, their spouses and their dependents
• Duties and responsibilities of military social work

  • Providing direct services, such as counseling, crisis intervention and debriefing after critical events
  • Plan and implement disease prevention and health promotion programs, conduct research, assist in training of medical personnel
  • Find resources for military members, such as housing assistance
• Industrial social work


  A specialized field of social work practice that addresses the human and social needs of the work community through interventions to foster optimal adaptation between individual and their environments
• Aims of industrial social work

  • Help individuals/groups adapt to the work situation and meet work requirements
  • Stimulate management to adapt the work situation to the social needs of the employees
  • Assist the work "community" as a whole to function in a better way
• Sectors for industrial social work

  • Economic support
  • Education
  • Women empowerment
  • Health
  • Protection of environment
  • Facilities improvement
  • Entrepreneurial skill
  • Conservation of natural resources
• DIRECT PRACTICE OF SOCIAL WORK

  An approach for helping others that emphasizes a strengths perspective and focuses on person to person contact with individuals, groups, or families
• direct practice of social work

  to help the most vulnerable people in our society.