The Role of Social Workers in Behavioral Therapy in Government Hospitals "A Descriptive Study of Social Workers Working At Jazan Hospitals."

This study is an analytical descriptive research, and has aimed at identifying the role of the social worker in working with conditions and diseases that need to be assisted with behavioral therapy in government hospitals and identifying obstacles that limit his role, to proposals to overcome those constraints. The study has been applied to a random sample of 54 specialists and social workers working in government hospitals in Jazan region during the first quarter of 1440H. A questionnaire researcher was adopted as a data collection tool in order to identify the actual role of the social worker in the field of Behavioral therapy in government hospitals and to identify the obstacles facing the social worker in working with Behavioral therapy cases or patients in government hospitals and to reach proposals to activate the role of social worker in working with Behavioral therapy cases or patients in government hospitals. The results showed that the specialist plays an active role in the field of Behavioral therapy in government hospitals such as (assisting the patient in obtaining services in the hospital and defining the plan treatment to the patient family. The presence of obstacles facing the social worker in working with Behavioral therapy cases or patients in government hospitals such as low awareness of the nature of the work of the social worker and insufficient training courses available to social workers with Behavioral therapy cases or patients and lack of knowledge of the family of the patient about the importance of the role of the social worker in working with Behavioral therapy cases or patients and In order to activate the role of the social worker in working with Behavioral therapy cases or patients and overcome the obstacles, a number of proposals were suggested, such as: Cooperation with the institutions concerned with Behavioral therapy cases patients to activate The role of the social worker and the description of the role of social medical specialist with Behavioral therapy cases or patients within the guide of policies and procedures of social service medical approved by the ministry and the survey of the views of patients to identify the positive and negative aspects of the services provided to them.