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The NASW Standards for Social Work Practice with Clients with Substance Use Disorders (SUD) is designed to enhance social workers’ awareness, values, knowledge, skills, and methods of practice across settings, where priorities may vary greatly. The text is intended to inform social work practice and interventions with clients who have SUDs; improve the quality of … Read more
NASW Standards of Social Work Practice in Health Care Settings is a resource based on the consensus of expert health care social workers from across the country and is designed to enhance social workers’ knowledge, skills, values, and methods to work effectively with individuals, families, health care providers, and the community when practicing in health … Read more
Continuing education is an essential activity for ensuring quality social work services for clients. The NASW Standards for Continuing Professional Education provide guidance to social workers who want to match their continuing education activities with professional expectations. They also serve as a resource to assist social workers in the selection and provision of continuing education. … Read more
The NASW Standards for Social Work Practice with Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families should be a resource to social workers serving this population in any way, including clinical social workers providing mental and behavioral health services, direct practitioners in social service agencies addressing a wide range of challenges, and advocates for this population. These … Read more
NASW Standards for Integrating Genetics into Social Work Practice recognize and respond to the expanded information on the human genome and its impact on social work practice and education. They are designed to enhance awareness of the skills, knowledge, values, methods, and sensitivity needed to work effectively with clients, families, health care providers, and the … Read more
Best Practice Standards in Social Work Supervision Item #S17. Brochure. Bulk 15 copies The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) have developed Best Practice Standards in Social Work Supervision to support and strengthen supervision for professional social workers. The standards provide a general framework that promotes uniformity … Read more
The NASW, ASWB, CSWE, & CSWA Standards for Technology in Social Work Practice is the result of a collaboration between NASW, Association of Social Work Boards, Council on Social Work Education, and Clinical Social Work Association, which updated the previous technology standards developed in 2005. The new standards create a uniform document for the social … Read more
This revision of the NASW Standards and Indicators for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice (the Standards) reflects the growth in the understanding of cultural competence since the development of both the NASW Standards for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice published in 2001 and the Indicators for the Achievement of the NASW Standards for … Read more
Social work case managers face both opportunities and challenges. With its strengths-based, person-in-environment perspective, the social work profession is well trained to develop and improve support systems (including service delivery systems, resources, opportunities, and naturally occurring social supports) that advance the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. Furthermore, social workers have long recognized that the … Read more