2020
DOI: 10.18060/22622
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An Emerging Theory to Guide Clinical Social Workers Seeking Change in Regulation of Clinical Social Work

Abstract: U.S. regulation of social work began in the 1940s. By the mid-1990s, all jurisdictions within the United States regulated the profession through licensure. One purpose of licensure is to protect the public and the profession; however, legislation defining social work varies vastly among jurisdictions. The variation exists not only between jurisdictions, but also within licensure categories. The disparity within clinical social work continues without resolve. This qualitative study explored the barriers encount… Show more

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“…The current study's findings are different from Cooper-Bolinskey (2019) where clinical social workers felt limited in their ability to provide psychotherapy to clients; some jurisdictions restrict the definition of clinical social work to psychotherapy. Boards of Social Work that limit clinical social work to psychotherapy may create challenging situations for practitioners seeking clinical licensure.…”
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“…The current study's findings are different from Cooper-Bolinskey (2019) where clinical social workers felt limited in their ability to provide psychotherapy to clients; some jurisdictions restrict the definition of clinical social work to psychotherapy. Boards of Social Work that limit clinical social work to psychotherapy may create challenging situations for practitioners seeking clinical licensure.…”
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confidence: 94%
“…Social work's foundations in the early 1900s grounded practice in the case work model which assessed how the individual's environment was a source of or relief from stress (2015). Through the 1970s, social work continued to place emphasis on the social component of the work, looking to person-in-environment as components of change (Cooper-Bolinskey, 2019; 2015). From the 1940s to 1970s, social work focused on the process of licensure and regulation with the goal of protecting practitioners and consumers (Johnson, 1970); this appears to coincide with a shift in clinical practice from person-in-environment to intrapsychic processes (Thyer, 2017).…”
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