A critique of the Model State Social Work Practice Act.
This article reviews the Model State Social Work Practice Act approved by the American Association of State Social Work Boards in 1998. The limitations of the definition of social work practice included in the model statute, inclusion of BSWs and social workers employed by public and nonprofit agen...
| Published in: | Social Work Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 105 - 116 |
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National Association of Social Workers
March 2000
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