St. Elisabethen Hospital Lörrach

Social counselling in the hospital tries to reduce the personal burdens of the patient resulting from his illness and their treatment through social assistance. For this purpose, it offers, among other things: psychosocial counselling and support in the case of illness, disability and age counseling and organization of services for medical rehabilitation counseling and organization of stays in day care, short-term care facilities as well as in nursing homes and hospice facilities counseling and organization of offers of outpatient help at home information on selected legal and social issues information about counseling centers, institutions, interest groups and self-help groups in the district as well as relief offers for relatives and other caregivers of the patient. Social Advice of the Children's Hospital: Psychosocial counselling and support of families, assisting with personal, family, social and legal problems related to the child’s disability or illness. Advice and information of parents of disabled and chronically ill children and adolescents regarding economic assistance, as well as social rights in particular: severely disabled persons' rights - SGB IX, long-term care insurance law - SGB XI, social assistance - SGB XII, health insurance - SGB V, assistance via the Federal Employment Agency? SGB III or Alg II ? SGB II, help from the Jugendamt SGB VIII, etc. Extension of medical history by creating a social history. Advice to guardians and initiation (organisation, mediation, coordination of follow-up assistance in preparation for dismissal). Counselling and initiation of inpatient, semi-inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation measures, crisis intervention Initiation of educational and social therapeutic counselling and support. Social work interventions in the treatment and discharge preparation of children drug addicted, addicted and mentally ill parents counselling of chronically ill or disabled adolescents regarding school and vocational rehabilitation. Advice for single parents in the case of child care problems. Social counselling of children and adolescent psychiatry: Clinical social work contributes to the success of the treatment of children and adolescents in the multi-professional team by fulfilling the standard tasks assigned to it in the PsychPV (Psychiatry Personnel Ordinance). In personal, usually individual-case-oriented social counseling and socio-therapeutic work, she makes her contribution to the overall treatment. It also performs the interface function between Jugendamt, the public and free youth welfare agencies, other organisations and authorities and the clinic. PsychPV describes the standard tasks of social work in inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry as follows: Clarification of entitlement requirements towards managers / Information on entitlement requirements towards public youth welfare and social rights from the SGB Social Therapeutic Competence Training Social Therapeutic Individual Help for children and adolescents and their families Help for (re)integration into school, training and work, including necessary therapeutic work experiments and external activities: preparation and assistance in the development of perspectives Family counselling and participation in family therapies