Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-05-09 | Page 53 | Woman's Work in Rehabilitating Soldiers

V Womans Woman's Work Word in Rehabilitating ing Soldiers rs played an important part in inI inthe HAT AT women I the hc task of reabsorbing the returned soldier 1 into civilian life lifo and that the tho psychiatric psychiatric social worker did a largo share in this work are facts which are amply attested by Mrs Mai Maida a graduate of Smith College at Northampton Northampton Northhampton North North- H. H Solomon and psychiatric social worker at atthe ampton Mass Psychopathic Hospital But first of tho the Boston Roston all do you ou know what a psychiatric social worker Lots of or others didn't until is' is cheer is is' Well Vell up the sudden ending of the war created a need for helping the newly-demobilized newly soldier adjust himself him him- self cU to the prosaic life lite of the peaceful citizen The chief chic difference between the social worker and the ps psychiatric social worker is is that the latter latter latter lat lat- ter while aiming to adjust the individual to hij hid environment on an economic basis is is in addition interested in the development of the tho individual as a personality A UA large largo perc percentage of I then men came back from the war with a changed attitude toward lifework life work ork and play pIar writes Mrs l Solomon in the Smith Smith Alumnae Quarterly These men were nervously undermined and it was gas in aiding in their readjustment re rev adjustment that the psychiatric social worker trained in the psychiatric point of view was a almost al most ClOEt essential One must avoid confusing the tho functions of the p psychiatric social worker not only with of the occupation or the vocation teacher but also with those of tho the psychologist Though both deal with mental cases the psychologist psychologist approaches the tIle with ith the tho point of view of his mental rating and his variations variation from the norm of intelligence while the tho psychiatric psychiatric atric social worker aims lims to adjust the tho individual to an all environment better fitted to his temp temperament tempera ra- ra ment and to develop his personality so that ha hi hamay may ulay make better contracts with the world