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  Clinical Social Workers
Faculty/Staff
The goal of Clinical Social Work is to empower families to integrate the experience of illness and hospitalizations into their lives with minimal disruption. This is achieved through counseling, education, advocacy and resource referral. Help can be provided for a variety of issues.

Specific services include:

  • Supportive counseling
  • Medical crisis and adjustment to illness
  • Complicated family and social situations
  • Emotional and psychological distress
  • Grief, loss and bereavement
  • Parent support group (inpatient)
  • Assistance with identifying lodging and transportation options
  • Link to available disease-specific organizations for financial assistance, as well as to various community resources
   


 


 
Susan Trout
MSW, P-LCSW

email: trout005@mc.duke.edu
  Marion Kalbacker
MSW, LCSW

email:
kalba002@mc.duke.edu

 

 

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