Mariology By profession, I am a Social Worker.   Social Workers are mostly aware that when working with clients we begin advocating and providing services to meet their basic needs right from the point of where clients are in their lives.   Once Social Workers meet the basic needs, and if there is a need for mental health counseling/therapy, this would likely be the only time Social Workers might work with clients to get to the root causes of their situations.   Social Workers pride themselves on using the holistic approach with clients and assisting them with support systems that are available to them; these include family, friends, colleagues, and pastor/religious leaders of the faith to which clients might belong.   At my first full-time Social Work internship, while in college I had a supervisor who 1) respected the fact that I was earning my Social Work degree along with a Bible degree: 2) encouraged me to look into all religions so I would be familiar ...