psychiatric social worker

noun

1. social welfare (in Britain) a qualified person who works with mentally-ill people and their families, based in a psychiatric hospital, child guidance clinic, or social services department area team, and who may also be an approved social worker

Example Sentences

“There’s a lot of things that we need to do in preparing for a visit: Developing appropriate treatment plans. Writing letters for our clients ... They do not give us the time to do that,” said Lisa Delgadillo, a Kaiser psychiatric social worker in Fontana.

From Los Angeles Times

Unified program, approved and funded by the Board of Education in 2021, added school staff including a psychiatric social worker, an attendance counselor, a parent or community representative and an academic counselor specifically to help Black students, who make up 7% of the district’s 410,000 students.

From Los Angeles Times

Deneffy says he asked his school’s “psychiatric social worker” sometime in the fall of ninth grade if she could get him professional mental health counseling.

From Seattle Times

Santana, born in upstate New York, had recently given up a career as a psychiatric social worker when she fell in love with Spanish dance and went to Spain to study.

From New York Times

As a break from the desk work, about one in five of the students at Griffith spent a portion of the second April acceleration day working in the school’s garden, an activity led by Christine Mariano, the school’s psychiatric social worker.

From Los Angeles Times