Hospital & community psychiatry
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Hosp Community Psychiatry · Dec 1976
The role of the certified social worker in England's social services.
With the reorganization of England's social services into a single unified system, the professional called the certified qualified social worker is playing a key role in the administration and delivery of community services. The author describes some of the worker's activities and also presents an overview of hospital, day treatment, and outpatient services for adult psychiatric patients in the county of Warwickshire. One of the most effective programs is a system of voluntary group homes, operated by an area council of churches, for former psychiatric inpatients.
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Hosp Community Psychiatry · Jan 1976
Meeting training needs of foreign psychiatric residents in state hospitals.
Foreign medical graduates entering psychiatric residency programs in the United States must cope with cultural, language, educational, and status barriers during their crucial first year of training. The authors point out the shortcomings of American residency programs for foreign trainees and describe how a program was developed to meet their special needs. It includes a more authoritarian form of instruction patterned after the educational structure the students were used to in their native countries and courses in American culture, English language, and problem-solving techniques.