Definition of "social worker" [social worker]

• A person whose profession is social work. (noun)

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• "AT NOONTIME OF THE NEXT DAY, MY FRIEND Sabrina Johnson came running out of the building where she was a state social worker to meet me."
• "When Paul phoned Nancy Brophy on the Friday of that week, she seemed unsurprised that the social worker wanted his aunt in a nursing home."
• "Karen Seeley, a clinical social worker and psychologist at Columbia University who surveyed thirty-five volunteer 9/11 therapists, found that the bereaved “were advised to discuss their experiences immediately in the name of mental health,” as she wrote in her 2008 book, Therapy After Terror."