Rescuing the Clinical Social Work

Abstract

This article is a reflection of the need to rescue the clinical or therapeutic intervention practice of Social Work in Mental Health practice. It outlines the origin and validates this historical work and its protruding role in the provision’s evolution and the Mental Health Services’ establishment. It was initially in North America, but that development is a benchmark of the most influential actions within the recommendations or best practices which promote international agencies in the world through the World Health Organization and the office for Latin America, Pan-American Health Office (PAHO). It explains a brief overview of the experiences and History of Therapeutic Social Work involvement in the beginning and in the alcoholism treatment done in Costa Rica. It addresses as well, the experience in relation to the efforts of PAHO to change the asylum model and foster the Mental Health Services Community in Latin America. It coincides with the efforts mentioned by the author which shall be offered and promoted in Costa Rica. It discusses and provides the information of incidents and Mental Health needs that are identified in the country. It also refers to the need to strengthen the Clinical Social Work intervention to meet the needs of promotion and treatment services for Mental Health in Costa Rican Communities, especially those sectors that have lack of the monetary resources to pay for Private Mental Health Services.