psychiatric social worker

British  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Her psychiatric social worker, Wanda Pathomrit, called a treatment center to start the intake process.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

“There are 51 fewer psychiatric social worker positions budgeted and 32 fewer staff compared to last year at this time,” Myart-Cruz said in testimony Tuesday to the Board of Education.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

Mr. Kikuchi, a psychiatric social worker, wrote of his experiences in a memoir, “The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle From an American Concentration Camp.”

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

Mr. Smith graduated in 1960 from Springfield College in Massachusetts and was a psychiatric social worker before being accepted to veterinary school at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2022

When someone tests positive on a ward, that section is supposed to be quarantined for 14 days, but 10 days later, new patients are brought in, said Anne Tarlton, a psychiatric social worker.

From Washington Times • Sep. 11, 2020