AbstractsSocial Work

The role of the medical social worker in helping patients at the Royal Victoria Hospital to accept and use a referral to the psychiatric service when their original request was for treatment of their physical complaints.

by Elizabeth. Steeves




Institution: McGill University
Department: School of Social Work.
Degree: Master of Social Work.
Year: 1951
Keywords: Social Work.
Record ID: 1527056
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile118951.pdf


Abstract

Great progress has been made by medical science today toward the successful treatment of many diseases so that they no longer present the same threat to man's existence. Along with this, increasing attention is being directed toward those patients who return again and again to the clinic or the private doctor with complaints for which no organic basis can be found. [...]