social work

social worker | American Dictionary

social worker
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsoʊ·ʃəl ˌwɜr·kər/
a person who is trained to help people who are at a mental, physical, economic, or social disadvantage

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There was also a variety of opinions and knowledge about who organized discharge, ranging from the doctor, to the nurse, to the socialworker.
Her husband died one hour later, and when the family arrived, the socialworker left them to be together.
The socialworker in a medical oncology department was asked to see the wife of a patient with advanced cancer.
I was always in the wards, full of people and the staff, then a socialworker every day seeing people.
This socialworker said where he would go, and we had nothing to do with it.
It seems to be pushed from one socialworker to another.
They were randomly allocated to a case management scheme, which was based upon a single designated socialworker acting as the case manager.
Moreover, police reports, criminal registers and socialworker accounts were analysed, as were custom-made questionnaires completed by family, friends, neighbours and co-workers of the offenders.
The practitioner described sending a client to a socialworker after determining from her intake interview that her pressing issue was substandard housing.
This means that the socialworker was unsure of her diagnosis and that she wants a more thorough review of the case.
In addition to the teacher, the latter will also house, a health expert, an agricultural technician, and a socialworker.
Entry to care homes became conditional on assessments of their individual need and financial circumstances being carried out by a socialworker.
The author writes as a feminist, a gerontologist and a socialworker.
Asking the same person to act as a socialworker or teacher increases their cooperation and trust.
They came up to the flat, where he was living, the socialworker, there was a house-full.
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