Social Work in Mental Hospitals and Out-Patient Clinics
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The Child Guidance Council has always been interested in demonstrating the value of psychiatric social work for adult patients. As far back as 1927, a worker was loaned to the psychiatric department of a general hospital, but it was not till 1930 that a beginning was made in introducing such workers into hospitals dealing with acute mental patients. In 1929 permission had been obtained for students taking the Mental Health Course at the London School of Economics to attend a diagnostic Clinic at one of the Municipal Hospitals. The need for the services of a psychiatric social worker to investigate cases admitted to the observation ward had already been appreciated, and as soon
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