TY - JOUR
KW - Clinical Clerkship/organization & administration
KW - Clinical Competence
KW - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Medical History Taking
KW - Mental Disorders/diagnosis
KW - Models, Educational
KW - Primary Health Care/organization & administration
KW - Social Work, Psychiatric/education/organization & administration
KW - Treatment Outcome
KW - United States
AU - B. D. Rock
AU - M. Cooper
A1 - 
AB - A neighborhood primary health care program serving a socially and economically oppressed community, and a graduate school of social work have collaborated to create a social work student field work unit in a primary health care setting, to demonstrate emerging and innovative social work roles in an ever-increasing managed care environment. Patients with high levels of psychosocial stress make large demands on the primary care system and consume considerable laboratory and diagnostic treatment resources. Development of social services in primary care settings is a relatively new concept, however it has been clearly demonstrated that primary care physicians need the skills of social workers to handle the psychosocial and environmental aspects of illness. The principal goal was to demonstrate social work practice in a primary care health setting, utilizing practice research approaches. Validation of effectiveness was noted, as depression, anxiety, adjustment reactions (to name a few) were decreased, resulting in fewer physician visits, less somatization and improved compliance with medical and diet/nutrition regimens. The case examples and single subject data presented provide qualitative evidence, in the context of a natural experiment, for the profession to pursue this model further in both program development and research.
BT - Social work in health care
C5 - Education & Workforce; Medically Unexplained Symptoms
CP - 1
CY - UNITED STATES
DO - 10.1300/J010v31n01_01
IS - 1
JF - Social work in health care
N2 - A neighborhood primary health care program serving a socially and economically oppressed community, and a graduate school of social work have collaborated to create a social work student field work unit in a primary health care setting, to demonstrate emerging and innovative social work roles in an ever-increasing managed care environment. Patients with high levels of psychosocial stress make large demands on the primary care system and consume considerable laboratory and diagnostic treatment resources. Development of social services in primary care settings is a relatively new concept, however it has been clearly demonstrated that primary care physicians need the skills of social workers to handle the psychosocial and environmental aspects of illness. The principal goal was to demonstrate social work practice in a primary care health setting, utilizing practice research approaches. Validation of effectiveness was noted, as depression, anxiety, adjustment reactions (to name a few) were decreased, resulting in fewer physician visits, less somatization and improved compliance with medical and diet/nutrition regimens. The case examples and single subject data presented provide qualitative evidence, in the context of a natural experiment, for the profession to pursue this model further in both program development and research.
PP - UNITED STATES
PY - 2000
SN - 0098-1389; 0098-1389
SP - 1
EP - 17
EP - 
T1 - Social work in primary care: A demonstration student unit utilizing practice research
T2 - Social work in health care
TI - Social work in primary care: A demonstration student unit utilizing practice research
U1 - Education & Workforce; Medically Unexplained Symptoms
U2 - 10989871
U3 - 10.1300/J010v31n01_01
VL - 31
VO - 0098-1389; 0098-1389
Y1 - 2000
ER -