| President McAleese: Social work a ‘noble profession’ that can change lives |
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Social workers help to reconstruct lives that have been skewed by any one of the many events, accidents or circumstances which can cast the shadow of illness or mental illness over a life, the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese said. In an official opening address at the 6th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health at University College Dublin, President McAleese said social workers are an ‘important part of our collective, civic response systems through which we take shared responsibility for the suffering of our fellow citizens and try to bring the best support and problem-solving skills we can to bear on their lives’. |