The relationship between cognitive self-regulation and professional decision-making skills in working with individual cases in the medical field.

The study aimed to determine the level of cognitive self-regulation among social workers working with individual cases, as well as determining the level of professional decision-making skills among social workers, and also determining the nature of the relationship between cognitive self-regulation and professional decision-making skills among social workers working with individual cases. The study was applied to social workers working in the medical sector, and their number reached (87) male and female specialists, including (58) males and (29) females. The results of the study found that social workers have a high level of self-organization, which shows that they have multiple skill and professional characteristics such as conscientiousness, integrity, self-control, adaptation, innovation, planning, and they also have a high level of professional decision skills that help them in working with individual cases. This may be due to the diversity of the dimensions of the professional decision, including collecting information, defining the problem, focusing, auditing, analyzing, identifying alternatives, and choosing the appropriate alternative. Also, the higher the level of cognitive self-regulation among social workers, the higher the level of their professional decision-making skills, and this is reflected in the quality of the professional decision that he makes at work. With individual cases and finding indicators for professional intervention to improve both cognitive self-regulation and therapeutic decision-making skills among social workers when working with individual cases