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