Clinical Social Work

What is Clinical Social Work?

Clinical Social Work is a profession focused on promoting the psychosocial and emotional well-being of individuals, families, groups, and communities, helping them improve their quality of life by strengthening their abilities and connecting them with appropriate resources. It is based on a holistic perspective and focuses on assessing and addressing both personal and structural factors (such as poverty, discrimination, violence, access to services, among others) that may affect mental health and well-being. Clinical social workers are trained to provide individualized, family, group, and community psychotherapeutic interventions, using evidence-based approaches and theoretical models of human behavior and clinical psychology.

Our services

Our Social Workers actively collaborate with the multidisciplinary team and provide the following services to patients and their families:

• Crisis Intervention
• Individual and family short-term counseling
• Conferences with patients
• Case management
• Support groups
• Support in the coordination of services with community agencies
• Appropriate identification and intervention in cases of child abuse / neglect and in situations of family violence
• Patient / family and staff education on the premises
• Assistance with the Non-Resuscitation Order (DNR) process and advance directives
• Support in case of grief
• Interventions with various systems outside SIM
• Short-term telephone or outpatient follow-up after discharge