With the goal of gaining better insight into Military Social work Major Robert Williams, PHD, LCSW, Travis AFB Family Medicine Residency, Chief of Behavioral Medicine and Research was gracious enough to sit down and discuss case management within this setting. Major Williams has been working in various forms of case management for 20 years and has been active duty with the USAF for 15 years allowing for him to understand some differences in the civilian world and unique workings within the military system. This article will cover a range of topics we covered how the case management system works within a military setting including topics on; the client system, barriers to services, personal and systematic techniques used through assessment,
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In 2001 an automated record system was started for family maltreatment, this has grown into one of the most robust outcomes medical databases in the world tracking treatment and services provided for family maltreatment issues storing a multitude of data points for research. This database is not for looking at from a legal perspective but is specifically designed to be used from a clinical perspective for making determinations. Listening to these problems with offering clinical services while assessing for fitness of duty was a challenge that I had never considered about military social work and creates an environment where the case manager often must work talking about a ‘friend’ of the active duty member, the fact that information that is gathered in these session can be utilized for separation between the service member and the military creates a major barrier when working with a client and their perception of seeking services (R. Williams, personal communication, Oct. 29 …show more content…
He was seeing patient who as the victim of a date rape, she reported the incident about a week later when she came in the mental health clinic and saw him. He worked really hard to access a military reassignment program where you can be reassigned base on needs for humanitarian issues, this was for family member illness, death and many other issues, at that time it included a family member who was the victim of sexual assault. He applied for this because every time she went to work it was a trigger for her of what had gone on, these requests were multiple times denied because the wording said a family member, and if we just let one active duty member then all they have to do is claim rape and they can be reassigned back home. After fighting for this hard and facing multiple denials, it was decided that legal would not go forward with the case because of lack of evidence. The patient ended up hearing about this from people who worked in legal, this was just before a 4 day weekend, the patient ended up drinking herself into oblivion and drove into a tree. It was seen as alcohol related accident and Major Williams saw it as a suicide. After the investigation, he was influential with his incident reports on
In 2001 an automated record system was started for family maltreatment, this has grown into one of the most robust outcomes medical databases in the world tracking treatment and services provided for family maltreatment issues storing a multitude of data points for research. This database is not for looking at from a legal perspective but is specifically designed to be used from a clinical perspective for making determinations. Listening to these problems with offering clinical services while assessing for fitness of duty was a challenge that I had never considered about military social work and creates an environment where the case manager often must work talking about a ‘friend’ of the active duty member, the fact that information that is gathered in these session can be utilized for separation between the service member and the military creates a major barrier when working with a client and their perception of seeking services (R. Williams, personal communication, Oct. 29 …show more content…
He was seeing patient who as the victim of a date rape, she reported the incident about a week later when she came in the mental health clinic and saw him. He worked really hard to access a military reassignment program where you can be reassigned base on needs for humanitarian issues, this was for family member illness, death and many other issues, at that time it included a family member who was the victim of sexual assault. He applied for this because every time she went to work it was a trigger for her of what had gone on, these requests were multiple times denied because the wording said a family member, and if we just let one active duty member then all they have to do is claim rape and they can be reassigned back home. After fighting for this hard and facing multiple denials, it was decided that legal would not go forward with the case because of lack of evidence. The patient ended up hearing about this from people who worked in legal, this was just before a 4 day weekend, the patient ended up drinking herself into oblivion and drove into a tree. It was seen as alcohol related accident and Major Williams saw it as a suicide. After the investigation, he was influential with his incident reports on