Video Blog: Clinical Social Work at the Austen Riggs Center
Clinical social work is an integral part of the interdisciplinary psychodynamic treatment approach at the Austen Riggs Center.
Below, you can hear Laura M. O’Neill, LICSW, speak about the multifaceted role of the clinical social worker at Riggs.
The Role of Social Work at the Austen Riggs Center
Family Work in a Residential Setting
Working and Learning in a Supportive Community
Learn more about the clinical casework and family work at Riggs.
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At the Austen Riggs Center, a team of clinical professionals follow patients from admission to discharge. Social workers play a crucial role within the interdisciplinary treatment team and provide a number of essential services for both patients and their families throughout a patient’s stay.
This blog series will explore some roles social workers have, what has changed about social work and what the future holds for social work at Riggs.
Family work is an important part of the treatment at Riggs for many patients and their families. A licensed, clinical social worker who is part of each patient’s treatment team serves in the role of family liaison and family co-therapist. Riggs social worker Daltrey Turner, LICSW, remarks, “The basic tenets of social work are a systems approach to understanding peoples’ troubles and people having agency in their own lives … both of those tenets are right at home in this institution [Riggs].”
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