Kay McDougall OBE born Kate Florence Long aka Kate Florence McDougall (6 November 1910 – 29 June 1999) was a British psychiatric social worker.

She led the formation of the British Association of Social Workers and she was its first member.

[1] In 1937 she was a psychiatric social worker having completed a course at the London School of Economics and she went to work at Warlingham Park Hospital in Croyden.

[2] She started a journal called Case Conference which allowed discussion of the work that the emerging profession of social workers were doing.

[3] McDougall was elected to lead the Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers (SCOSW) in 1965.