Answer to Question 1
True
Answer to Question 2
In medical social work (now often referred to as social work in the health field), widely varying problems and situations are encountered. Social workers engage in the following activities:
Helping terminally ill patients and their families cope
Counseling women who have had a mastectomy
Helping a low-income wife from a distant area find lodging in the community while her husband undergoes heart surgery
Counseling people who are so depressed they are contemplating suicide
Helping a single woman who has just become a mother to plan for the future
Providing genetic counseling for a young couple who gave birth to a child with a cognitive disability
Helping an executive of a large company make plans for the future following a severe heart attack
Counseling a woman about her emotional reactions following a miscarriage or a stillbirth
Being a support person to a hospitalized person with AIDS and to his or her friends and relatives
Finding living arrangements that will provide some medical attention for people who no longer need to be hospitalized
Counseling alcoholics and drug addicts or making appropriate referrals to other agencies
Counseling patients who are apprehensive about undergoing surgery
Helping someone suddenly struck with a permanent disability to adjust and make plans for the future
Meeting with relatives and friends of patients to help interpret the nature of the medical condition and perhaps to solicit their help in formulating a treatment plan to facilitate recovery
Counseling someone with emphysema on how to stop smoking
Counseling a rape victim concerning her psychological reactions
Informing relatives about the medical condition of someone who has just had a severe automobile accident