SOCIAL WORKERS help you and your family with practical personal or emotional problems that may arise from living with illness.

Social Worker Roles and Responsibilities
  • Locate/Arrange Resources (i.e. Respite for care givers)
  • Patient / Family / Community
  • Consultation / Collaboration / Referral Agent
  • Assessment
    • Screening/case finding
    • Social assessment
    • Diagnostic/psycho social assessment
  • Counseling
    • Adjustment counseling (loss/palliative, sexuality, spirituality, financial, occupational, etc.)
    • Crisis Counseling
    • Family Counseling (Resource, Supportive Counseling, Bereavement)
  • Common roles and responsibilities
Additional Links

The New Brunswick Association of Social Workers (NBASW)

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