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Book SynopsisClinical Social Work Practice and Regulation: An Overview offers a description of the mental health treatment being provided by over 200,000 licensed clinical social workers in the United States and a summary of the fifty-one licensure laws and regulations which govern licensed clinical social work practice. The public is confused by the fact that no two licensure laws are the same; there are thirty-eight different titles governing clinical social work and social work practice; and scopes of practice vary across the country. LCSWs often have difficulty taking their license to another state. This book aims to contribute to a discussion about standardizing clinical social work licensure laws and regulations. Clinical social work licensure laws and rules are described and analyzed in 18 different areas. Additionally, recommendations are provided for licensure language that would lessen the confusion that exists for the public, and across state laws.
Trade ReviewEssential reading not only for the clinical social worker, but also for every state social work regulatory board, all schools of social work, the Council of Social Work Education, and all social work associations and organizations. This book is highly readable…which lends itself to collaboration with relevant professional social work institutions, organizations and clinical social work practitioners necessary to standardize licensure laws/regulations affecting our profession. The resultant clarification and uniformity will better protect the public and advance the social work profession. -- Alice Kassabian Ph.D., LCSW, past director, Clinical Social Work Institute, Washington, D.C.
A valuable review of clinical social work practice and a comprehensive survey and analysis of the varying licensure requirements, state by state , that regulate clinical social work practice in this country today...Groshong provides specific, carefully thought out recommendations for resolving some of the differences, and establishing requirements that would better protect the public and the profession. This book should be an important resource for social work licensure boards, schools of social work, social work associations and organizations, as well as for the practicing clinical social worker who wishes to see our profession advance. -- Joyce Edward, LCSW, co-author of Fostering Healing and Growth: A Psychoanalytic Social Work Approach
This book is an eye-opening, often dismaying, thoroughly researched, wake-up call to the clinical social work profession. It is ?must reading? for all clinical social workers, all social work associations, graduate schools of social work, social work licensing boards and the Council on Social Work Education. Journal: /access/ Author: Patricia Baker, Ph.D., LCSW-C -- Patricia Baker, Ph.D., LCSW-C,, past-president of the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work
"This book is an eye-opening, often dismaying, thoroughly researched, wake-up call to the clinical social work profession. It is “must reading” for all clinical social workers, all social work associations, graduate schools of social work, social work licensing boards and the Council on Social Work Education." Journal: /access/ Author: Patricia Baker, Ph.D., LCSW-C -- Patricia Baker, Ph.D., LCSW-C,, past-president of the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowlegements Chapter 3 Section 1: Overview of Clinical Social Work Practice Chapter 4 Section 2: Current Clinical Social Work Licensure Laws and Regulations Chapter 5 Section 3: Suggested Standards for Clinical Social Work Licensure Laws and Rules Chapter 6 Section 4: Tables Chapter 7 Section 5: Samples Analyses of Clinical Social Work Licensure Laws Chapter 8 Bibliography Chapter 9 Index
