The Military Social Worker

Abstract

are many thousand major job listings in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles of the United States Employment Service. Of these the army has selected only a few as having some value in the armed services, either by direct or indirect use of the skills represented by the job title. The social worker is now listed among these selected occupations. The psychiatric social worker has the job title of military psychiatric social worker, and many of the workers now employed in the service are employed in out-patient psychiatric clinics known as mental hygiene units or personnel consultation services. The mission of such clinics is the study, diagnosis, treatment, and disposition of soldiers presenting problems of emotional maladjustment. The social worker in such a clinic has a role in all these areas.