What Does a Medical Social Worker Do?

Medical social work refers to professional activities that comprehensively use medical social work expertise and methods to provide professional medical social services to individuals, family institutions and communities in need, help them to alleviate, solve and prevent medical social problems, and restore and develop social functions. .

Medical Social Work

Medical social work refers to professional activities that comprehensively use medical social work expertise and methods to provide professional medical social services to individuals, family institutions and communities in need, help them to alleviate, solve and prevent medical social problems, and restore and develop social functions. .

Chinese name

Medical Social Work

Main content 1

Social work for patients and their families

Main content 2

Social work in medical institutions

Main content 3

Social work in public health

(I) Understanding of meaning (two levels)

Medical social worker's task: to solve the social and psychological problems caused by the disease, the focus is to provide services to individual patients in the hospital.

Medical social work refers to professional activities that comprehensively use medical social work expertise and methods to provide professional medical social services to individuals, family institutions and communities in need, help them to alleviate, solve and prevent medical social problems, and restore and develop social functions. . It is fundamentally different from medical social work that people call welfare, non-professional and non-professional help activities other than their own work.

2. Modern level: biological-psychological-social model

The mission of medical social workers: the content is extended to the promotion and protection of health, social prevention of diseases, etc.

Disease-centric-patient-centric

For individuals-for individuals, families and communities

(2) Functions (functions) of medical social workers

1. Diagnosis and evaluation

2. Consulting and counselling

3. Seek and integrate resources

4. Advocacy work

5. Consulting and coordination

Three core concepts of life adaptation model: stress; coping; adaptation

Application of life adaptation model in the field of medical social workers:

Second, the main content of medical social work

1. Social work for patients and their families

2. Social work in medical institutions

3. Social work in public health

4. Other service forms

Volunteer service

Discharge plan

n (a), medical casework-basic methods

n Key points and key points: understand the problemthe way of talkinggather informationanalyzefind the cruxsociopsychological diagnosishandling

n Important content: Sociopsychological diagnosis

(1) Problems and causes; (2) Economic, psychological, and social support systems; (3) Motivation, ability, and resources; (4) Roles, adaptations, interpersonal, and emotional responses

(2) Work of medical organizations

Target: patients, family members

Purpose: To assist patients and their families to have a deep understanding of the response and treatment of the disease, to help them restore their confidence in life, to solve professional problems they face and to restore normal life functions.

Main types: educational groups; therapeutic groups; self-help groups; social change groups

(3) Medical community work

Essence: the process of resource integration

Main task: linking hospital resources with community resources

Core: It is the development, utilization, coordination and integration of resources. -It is both a goal and a skill.

I. Hospice and Social Work

1. Definition of hospice

2. Purpose

3. Aspects of social work involvement

4.The ultimate purpose of sadness counseling

Second, chronic disease care and social work

1.Definition of chronic disease

2. Changes in chronic disease treatment model: medical model-integrated model

3. Objectives of intervention

Social Work Services for AIDS

Among the psychosocial problems caused by AIDS, the most serious are social discrimination and social exclusion.

The intervention points of social workers: strengthen social cognition; eliminate discrimination; protect patient rights; integrate resources; psychological counseling; behavior intervention for high-risk groups.