| Sumario: | Concerned about the lack of information about clinical social workers and their practices, the authors used data from a larger study to analyze four dimensions of the self-reported clinical practices of a national random sample of experienced clinical social workers having state licensure and certification credentials at the advanced practice level and providing clinical services in public, nonprofit, and for-profit settings. This sample of 2,640 advanced practitioners in clinical social work was predominantly female (69 percent) and white (94 percent) and had a median of 22 years post-MSW practice experience. Multiple regression analyses of factors including number and types of clients in caseload, date of MSW degree, service hours per targeted client system, and restrictive mental health insurance coverage yielded statistically significant correlations and accounted for significant portions of the variance in respondents' use of time-framed practice models. The study profile depicts the respondents' practices as diverse in terms of setting, clients, theoretical frameworks, and practice models and their basic professional orientation as including a person-in-society view of practice. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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