Social Worker Psychiatric Salary
in Nebraska, United States

• Provides psychiatric social work assistance to mentally or emotionally disturbed patients of hospitals, clinics, and other medical centers, and to their families, collaborating with psychiatric and allied team in diagnosis and treatment plan: investigates case situations and presents information to psychiatrist 070.107-014 and psychologist, clinical 045.107-022 and other members of health team, on patient's family and social background pertinent to diagnosis and treatment.
• Helps patients to respond constructively to treatment and assist in adjustment leading to and following discharge.
• Interprets psychiatric treatment to patient's family and helps to reduce fear and other attitudes obstructing acceptance of psychiatric care and continuation of treatment.
• Serves as link between patient, psychiatric agency, and community.
• May work directly in treatment relationship with patients, individually or in groups, in consultation with psychiatrist.
• May refer patient or patient's family to other community resources.
• Usually required to have knowledge and skill in casework methods acquired through degree program at school of social work.

Social Worker Psychiatric Job Prevalence in Nebraska, United States

Job family: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers

Job family population: 112,040

Estimated population of Social Worker Psychiatric jobs: 103,200

Rate of error: 1.6%