It is with sadness that ASWB announces the passing earlier this month of Andrew Marks, Licensed Master Social Worker in Texas, and former executive director of the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners (2000–2005). In 2005 Andrew coordinated the board’s Sunset Commission review, culminating with passage of legislation for board continuance for 12 years. […]
Category: In memoriam
The new Technology Standards in Social Work Practice are now available for use by the social work community. They were developed by four organizations which included the National Association of Social Workers, Association of Social Work Boards, Council on Social Work Education, and the Clinical Social Work Association. With representatives from each association, the Task […]
ASWB has selected the first group of social work faculty members to participate as scholars in a new educational initiative, the Path to Licensure Institute. The institute is part of ASWB’s Path to Licensure program, which is designed to help schools of social work infuse information about professional licensing and social work regulation into their […]
ASWB has released new blueprints for the social work exams based on the results of the 2015-2016 practice analysis. The 2017 Analysis of the Practice of Social Work report detailing the process and outcomes is now available for download. Licensing exams using the 2018 blueprints will be launched on January 2, 2018. Until that date, […]
Category: Exam program
Social work practice mobility and license portability are a public safety issue, a workforce issue, and a technology issue in this era of increasing use of electronic practice in health care professions and increasing mobility of the workforce in general. In 2014, the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), whose members include the social work […]
ASWB CEO Mary Jo Monahan, MSW, LCSW, participated in a panel discussion at the annual leadership meeting of the National Association of Social Workers in Washington, D.C. Co-presenters included Darla Spence Coffey, Ph.D., MSW, president and CEO of the Council on Social Work Education, and Angelo McClain, Ph.D., LICSW, chief executive officer of NASW. Both organizations, […]