title: [The role of the social worker in mental health services--historical development in Sweden].
abstract: In a historical development of psychiatry as a medical discipline, there are periods when isolating the mentally disturbed patients and submitting them to crude treatments was a way to try to solve their mental problems. However, it was also noted that the patients often had social problems aggravating their treatment, or leading to deterioration of their psychical status when the patient was returning to his initial environment after completed therapy. That was the reason for social workers to overtake an important role in solving the social problems of mentally ill people in Sweden. The idea was to animate a social worker to act as "curator", which means, important person with strong social attitude, good communicational skills, and capable to actively participate in solving the social problems of mentally ill people. In this article is presented the role and methodology of a social worker acting as a curator in Sweden.
authors.affiliation: Univerzitet u Geteborgu, Svedska.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cajvert
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000266:history*; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D013548:Sweden