Why we need more mental health social workers

In our 40 years of work at Centre for Mental Health, the value of social work, and social interventions more broadly, has always been apparent. Mental health inequalities are social and economic inequalities. The social determinants of mental health play a fundamental role in all of our lives. And so social interventions are crucial, both to the prevention of mental ill health, and the treatment and support required by people living with mental health difficulties.