Purpose: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is currently developing a social work licensure
process to serve as a quality assurance mechanism and enhance the quality of care for …

Objectives This study aimed at examining how racial disparities in social workers' licensing
rates are explained by the major sources of the disparities: racial differences in educational …

Purpose: This article provides a brief overview of social work regulation and the context
surrounding calls for greater transparency of demographic data related to social work …

Purpose: This article provides a review of current trends in social work licensure and
regulation in the United States. Methods: Topics include practice regulation, the purpose of …

Unlike other disciplines, social work has made accreditation decisions about undergraduate
and graduate programs independent of licensure examination pass rates of graduates …

China has long suffered from a critical shortage of qualified social workers. To compensate
for the inadequacy of formally educated social workers, a number of workers employed in …

Purpose: Social work practice and its regulation pose special challenges in rural areas. The
present study reports findings from a statewide assessment of the social work labor force in …

COVID-19 highlights the need for portability of social work licensure to be a priority. The
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) spearheaded some initiatives, such as the …

Purpose: There has been increasing interest in the academy to assist social work graduates
to become licensed which is likely to grow as the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) …

This article describes and documents a step-by-step, iterative process of competency
modelling–a way of identifying, generating and disseminating professional knowledge …