social worker
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈsoʊʃəl ˈwɜrkər/
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trabajador social
- The social worker helped the family access essential services to improve their living situation.
- social workers and clients
- social workers provide services
- role of social workers
I am a poet and a social worker by trade.
- I am a poet and a social worker by trade.
- And I was also very interested, particularly interested to see the social workers give their testimony.
- And so we have social workers and the social workers go around and find these people and what do they do?
- I want to mention briefly because as a clinical social worker, I worked in hospitals and dealt with doctors a lot.
- They can't afford to have social workers and, and deal with, with the the violence and the anger and the poverty.
- Now let's figure out why and whether that means some time with a social worker, some time with a psychiatrist, some time with a psychiatric nurse.
- So this is, you know, all the sort of compassion jobs we think of social workers, home care workers, ministers, therapists, people like that.
- Search for the word racist again and again and again, police, nurses, social workers say, I would have said something, but I didn't want to be called racist.
- And even our courts, the Youth Justice Board, the magistrates, the judges, they have all become social workers.
- And so social workers are overworked and underpaid and so kids are not always taken care of in the best manner.
- I think psychiatrists and, and therapists and masters level social workers, psychologists and you name it, I think we should all say this is not OK.
Examples
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Look, as your social worker, I'm happy to stick my neck out for you.
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I want to mention briefly because as a clinical social worker, I worked in hospitals and dealt with doctors a lot.
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And so really what you want is to, you want more soft cops and more hard social workers and you want them working together.
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And so we have social workers and the social workers go around and find these people and what do they do?
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You should get yourself a job as a social worker here.
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The health consequences are well known to social workers and make our work more complex.
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Rediscovering this role was a key way for social workers to find meaning in their work.
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However, this research identifies a need for social workers to re-engage with this area of practice.
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Many professionals, including social workers, have used Beck's work to develop risk management techniques.
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So where is the plan to start hiring additional teachers aides, social workers, mental health workers to be in the schools to deal with this crisis?
Synonyms
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3.9
A person who helps people or families get help from social services
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3.5
A person who helps poor or vulnerable people get support from social services
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3.3
A person who helps hospital patients with emotional, family, and practical needs
How Qualified
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is transparently compositional: 'social' (relating to society or social services) modifies 'worker' (a person who works), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes a person who works in social services or helps people in the community. This structure and meaning are cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'trabajador social', French 'travailleur social'), reinforcing immediate comprehensibility.
Etymology
The noun social worker comes from putting together social, meaning people and community, and worker, meaning someone who works. Imagine a person visiting a family to give advice, support and practical help, so social worker means 'a person whose job is to help people in need'.