psychiatric social work

    Psychiatric social work is defined as a branch of social work, by using the methods and skills of social work those patients are treated who due to emotional disturbance feels difficulties in adjustment within the society. Thus psychiatric social work is a helping tool towards the welfare of patients, suffering from emotional or mental disorder.

  In ancient time mental disorder were not considered as a disease and neither was it taken seriously. The eighteen century saw the beginning of mental attention and more human treatments of the mentally ill people. This gathered momentum in nineteenth century some studies which highlighted the interdependence of the mind and body, culminating in Sigmund Freud’s theories of the unconscious and his great method derangement. 

     The human personality is like an organization that could be disorganized any time, it happens due to conflict among the inner aspects of the personality. Some people feel difficulties in facing their crisis by their own emotional responses to situations. Anxieties, tensionsand emotional responses are the inner aspects of our personality. If a person cherish these kind of aspects in his or her personality it may result ensuing and suicide.

   A major share of mental disorganization is the result of inability to adjust to the strain of modern life. To struggle for power, job frustrations, financial crisis physical diseases and many other factors combine to increase the difficulty of living in the modern world.