First Advisor

James Lewis Breedlove

Date of Publication

1978

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Social Work (MSW)

Department

Social Work

Language

English

Subjects

Social service -- Handbooks, manuals, etc, Hospitals -- Emergency services -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

DOI

10.15760/etd.2824

Physical Description

1 online resource (58 p.)

Abstract

The purpose of this manual is to fill the void I encountered when I first began doing emergency room social work. After reading a mass of material on crisis theory, depression, suicide, psychiatric emergencies, etc., after having role played an emergency room crisis counselor, and after reviewing what seemed an infinite number of required hospital procedures, I began work as an emergency room social worker. The first few cases I encountered on my own were bewildering. When emergency room personnel would refer a patient to me with the prefatory remark: "This guy looks like he has real emotional problems. See what you can do”, I would nearly freeze as I wondered which form to fill out before seeing the patient, what questions to ask the patient, which theory to review before interviewing the patient. After the interview, I confronted the problem of deciding upon an appropriate referral, which forms to fill out, whom to confer with, etc. Frankly, the entire situation was pretty overwhelming to me.

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