psychiatric social worker

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

Example Sentences

He was the son of Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Delbert Wong, the first Chinese American judge in the continental United States, and Dolores Wong, a psychiatric social worker and leader in the effort to establish a public library in Chinatown.

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“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.

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Crystal Ochoa, the school’s psychiatric social worker, was excited to see how engaged the students were, especially because their school doesn’t offer music curriculum.

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“There’s a lot of things that we need to do in preparing for a visit: Developing appropriate treatment plans. Writing letters for our clients ... They do not give us the time to do that,” said Lisa Delgadillo, a Kaiser psychiatric social worker in Fontana.

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Unified program, approved and funded by the Board of Education in 2021, added school staff including a psychiatric social worker, an attendance counselor, a parent or community representative and an academic counselor specifically to help Black students, who make up 7% of the district’s 410,000 students.

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