University Press of America
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Trim: 6 x 9⅛
978-0-7618-4889-9 • Paperback • October 2009 • $50.99 • (£39.00)
978-0-7618-4890-5 • eBook • October 2009 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
Laura W. Groshong, AM, LICSW, is a clinical social worker in private practice in Seattle, Washington. She is also a registered lobbyist in Washington, representing the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work, among other groups. Groshong is also the director of government relations for the Clinical Social Work Association, a national group that promotes clinical social work professional interests.
Chapter 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
Essential 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