Social Service and Mental Health

An Essay on Psychiatric Social Workers

M. Ashdown, S. Clement Brown

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415178082
• eBook ISBN: 9781136280221
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

First published in 1998. This is Volume VII, the final of seven in the Sociology of Mental Health series. Written in 1953, this book is about individuals who choose and are chosen for psychiatric social work, the use that they make of training and the shaping of their careers when they enter employment.

Appendix 1

Occupations of Members of the Association of Psychiatric Social Workers Living in the United Kingdom, According to the List Published by the Association in January 1951, Supplemented by the List of April 1952.

This list includes men. Between 83 and 84% of qualified workers are members of the Association.

Appendix 2

List of Motives for Application for Training Used in the Special Study

Each subject was asked to mark those statements which applied to herself, and to underline those of particular importance in her case.

1	I wanted to have a break from my occupation.
2	I wanted to have a year at the University.
3	I wanted to have a year for study.
4	I wanted to earn a higher salary.
5	I wanted to improve my professional status.
6	I wanted to gain a recognized qualification for a job I was already doing, or a job which had been promised me.
7	I wanted to gain more understanding of the problems I was already meeting in my work.
8	I wanted to qualify myself to play a part in future developments in the field of mental health.
9	I wanted to qualify myself for psychiatric social work.
10	I wanted to help individuals undergoing mental suffering.
11	I happened to hear about the Mental Health Course.
12	I wanted to know more about the workings of my own mind.
13	I wanted to work closely with the medical profession.
14	I hoped that the Mental Health Course would help me to understand my own psychological difficulties.
15	Others thought me suitable for psychiatric social work.
16	I believed I had some natural ability for understanding and helping people.

Index

The abbreviation p.s.w. is used in the index for psychiatric social worker, p.s. work for psychiatric social work

Adult mental patients, work with, 168–171. See also Mental hospitals,

Observation wards (mental),

Psychiatric out-patient clinics for adults,

Training

Advice, place within p.s. work, 151–153

After-care scheme for ex-service psychiatric casualties, 28, 30–32

Age at training, 18, 75, 114, 117, 247; age and ‘malleability’, 107–108

Altruism and professionalism, 244, 245. See also Vocation and profession

American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, 11

Analysis (personal) of p.s.ws., 110–111, 117, 215

Analysts, p.s.ws. train ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• I. Introduction
• II. Origins and Growth
• III. Three Examples of Case-Work
• IV. Selection
• V. Training
• VI. The Shaping of Careers
• VII. Working in Partnership
• VIII. Service in Clinics and Hospitals
• IX. Service in Wider Fields
• X. Personal Difficulties
• XI. Ends and Means
• XII. Conclusion
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Index