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.
Institution: | McGill University |
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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 |
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. [...]