title: Roles of social workers in interdisciplinary pain management.
abstract: Social workers provide important services to chronic pain patients and are the major mental health professionals in hospice and palliative care. Examples of ways that social workers provide these services are documented though a series of queries and responses about those professionals' roles.
authors.affiliation: American Pain Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland 21201-4111, USA. yvette@painfoundation.org
authors.forename: Yvette
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Colón
authors.forename: Shirley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Otis-Green
mesh_terms: D059350:Chronic Pain; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D024382:Professional Role; D012947:Social Work