The work responsibilities of the social worker includes writing assessments, conducting interviews to clients and their families to know the type of problem, providing counseling support, recommending best solutions ion particular
cases, coordinating and making referrals to different agencies, participating
in meetings like child protection seminars or mental health, maintaining
records needed
in preparation of legal action, guiding evidence to be used
in court, helping clients through individual or group conferences, developing and implementing written materials for educational purposes, conducting workshops and providing
psychiatric social work.
A growing number of disputed custody
cases since 2006 have demonstrated that a mother, or a father, from all social classes, who cut off the child's contact with the other parent, not seldom
in combination with allegations of abuse or
psychiatric problems, easily can take control over the child and influence the child to reject the other parent without any objective reason — as the investigations made by the police or by consulting
psychiatric records show.