This document discusses the role of psychiatric social workers in providing intervention for people with disabilities and victims of accidents. It outlines that social workers aim to strengthen human functioning and support resources for clients. Their interventions for the disabled include preventative, curative, and rehabilitative services like vocational training, counseling, assessments, and helping patients prepare to return home after medical care. For accident victims, social workers are involved in admission decisions, ensure ongoing support, and provide legal assistance. The overall goal is for social workers to help both groups improve their social functioning through various services.

1. PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL
WORK INTERVENTION
IN ACCIDENTS AND
DISABILITY
Rajendran VR

2. INTRODUCTION
• Accidents and disabilities are
among the various areas of PSW
intervention. For managing the
two, SWrs have to apply their
scientific knowledge and
technical skills of PSW.

3. INTERVENTION IN PEOPLE
WITH DISABILITY
Social workers’ interventions are
generally initiated to strengthen
human functioning and to
enhance the effectiveness of
societal structures that
provides resources and
opportunities for clients and
beneficiaries of services.

4. Socialworkers’ roles
include….
• Preventive
• Curative
• Rehabilitative….services for
the disabled persons.
• Disability care includes
improving capacity for care
givers and members of the
family to care for the disabled.

5. PSW intervention
includes….
• provide support to them by
providing guidance and
counselling.
• Literacy and neumeracy
training.
• Vocational training.

6. • Technical skills in work.
• Guidance and counselling.
• Periodic assessments.
• Seminars and workshops.

7. • Collaborative team
approach.
• Aids and appliances.
• Support and care
services.

8. • Human resource
development.
• Physical and Occupational
Therapy.
• Rehabilitation services.
• Develop self confidence.

9. • PSWrs help them persistantly take
their medication.
• PSWrs help the patients and their
families prepare for returning to their
homes after discharge.
• In case, the person with disability
cannot return home, placement in
some other setting must be
arranged.

10. INTERVENTION IN
ACCIDENTS..
• PSWr has to involve in the
decision to admit.
• Ensure the provision of
continuous social service
support to the victims of
accidents.

11. • Providing legal assistance to
the victims of accidents.
• Facilitating prompt
discharge, thus preventing
the misuse of short-term
beds for primarily social
welfare reasons.

12. • PSWrs working as laison .

13. CONCLUSION
• Both accident and disability
are of the intervening areas
of PSW. PSW intervention
provides support to people
to step forward to their
better social functioning.

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