Medical Social Work

Introductory Guide to Medical Social Work
By Kaitlin Louie
Medical social workers work in hospitals, community clinics, and other healthcare settings to support patients and their families, and to assist the larger medical team in the coordination of patients’ care. They play an essential role in many of the non-medical aspects of patient care, including helping patients and their families navigate the medical system, assessing and monitoring patients’ and family members’ mental and emotional health, providing short term counseling and therapy, and communicating patient needs and concerns to the larger medical team.
Medical social workers work closely with patients and family members who are experiencing mental, emotional, family, and/or financial stressors due to their or their loved one’s medical condition. Because of the type of challenges they encounter and the fast pace of medical settings, medical social workers may find this field to be stressful and demanding. However, many medical social workers refer to the relationships they build with patients, families, and the medical team combined with the knowledge that they are helping individuals, as reasons that they entered and have stayed in the field.
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Compiler: Fateme Mohammady
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