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Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker

Delaware social-work license at the Bachelors tier under 24 Del.C. Chapter 39. Grandfather application deadlines have passed; renewal, reactivation and supported upgrades remain available.

Licensing authority: Delaware Board of Social Work Examiners / Division of Professional Regulation · Application information

Continuation and renewal during military deployment
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 20 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Deployment
Qualifying deployed service member holding a valid license at deployment: request continuation with official deployment verification; CE-bearing license does not expire until 270 days after return. Submit renewal documents and CE proof within 180 days after return; other licensure duties remain.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reinstatement after disability suspension
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Board Discretion
Board may impose authorized disciplinary or corrective measures under §3916(e); no identified currently offered licensing examination is prescribed by this reinstatement provision.
Eligibility
License suspended due to disability; Board must be satisfied at a Board meeting that reasonable skill and safety have been restored.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Licensure by examination (including already passed designated examination)

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Bachelors examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited baccalaureate degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Renewal or reinstatement under continuing education hardship extension
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 20 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker license.
Hardship
Apply in writing before the license period ends, with renewal fee, showing disability, illness, extended absence or exceptional family responsibilities; Board may grant no more than 120 days to complete CE. If approval cannot occur before expiration, the lapsed license is reinstated after completing CE under the exception.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Late renewal within one year
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 20 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Eligibility
Expired license within one year of expiration; pay renewal and late fees. Do not practice until renewed to active status.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Military member or spouse reinstatement within two years
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 20 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker license.
Military Reinstatement
Qualifying military member or spouse assigned to a Delaware duty station may seek reinstatement within two years of lapse or expiration; submit official military/spouse verification, required reinstatement documentation and fees. Does not cover suspension/revocation unless reinstated before lapse.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Initial licensure with military education, training or experience credit

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Bachelors examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited baccalaureate degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
Military Eligibility
Active duty, National Guard, reserve, retired military or veteran with a pending license application; request military education/training/experience credit only when needed to meet degree or experience requirements.
Military Equivalence
Board must find military education, training or experience substantially equivalent. All other requirements, including examinations, remain applicable.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Removal or reduction of probationary restrictions
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Eligibility
Board finds the deficiencies underlying probation remedied; comply with any corrective conditions under §3916(e).

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reactivation within three years of inactive status
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 20 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Eligibility
Inactive status for no more than three years; submit written intention to reactivate through DELPROS Service Request, satisfy all CE and pay renewal fee.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reapplication after expiration exceeding one year

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Bachelors examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited baccalaureate degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
New Application
Reapply as a new applicant; the ordinary degree, clinical experience when applicable, designated ASWB examination passage and documentation requirements apply. A qualifying current external license may instead support reciprocity.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Reapplication Eligibility
Prior Delaware license expired for more than one year.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Reapplication after inactivity exceeding three years

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Bachelors examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited baccalaureate degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
New Application
Reapply as a new applicant; the ordinary degree, clinical experience when applicable, designated ASWB examination passage and documentation requirements apply. A qualifying current external license may instead support reciprocity.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Reapplication Eligibility
Prior Delaware license inactive for more than three years.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Reciprocity: less stringent standards with five of seven year practice

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Bachelors examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited baccalaureate degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Existing License
Current active same-tier social-work license in good standing; provide direct verification from every jurisdiction ever licensed, certified disciplinary statements, and the licensing laws and regulations.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Practice Experience
Prove at least five years of practice in the corresponding field in the seven years immediately before application under §3909(b).
Substantial Similarity
License standards are less stringent; Board may determine their equivalence.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Reciprocity: substantially similar licensing standards

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Bachelors examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited baccalaureate degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Existing License
Current active same-tier social-work license in good standing; provide direct verification from every jurisdiction ever licensed, certified disciplinary statements, and the licensing laws and regulations.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Substantial Similarity
Board determines that the other jurisdiction’s standards are substantially similar to Delaware’s educational, experience and supervision standards.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Biennial renewal
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 20 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reinstatement of a suspended license with Board corrective conditions
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Board Discretion
Comply with individually imposed corrective measures; §3916(e) identifies no additional licensing examination.
Eligibility
Previously suspended Delaware license; reinstatement is subject to Board action and disciplinary or corrective measures authorized by Chapter 39.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Restoration of unrestricted licensure after voluntary treatment
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Eligibility
Restricted practice under the Voluntary Treatment Option; complete the treatment program and comply with the treatment agreement before applying for unrestricted licensure.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Military Provisional Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker

Six-month, nonrenewable provisional form of this social-work license while the full reciprocity application is pending under 29 Del.C. §8735(r).

Licensing authority: Delaware Board of Social Work Examiners / Division of Professional Regulation · Application information

Military member provisional licensure pending reciprocity

At least one of the following alternatives:

Duration
Provisional license lasts up to six months from issuance and cannot be renewed.
Eligibility
Qualifying military member with official verification of military status, Delaware assignment or deployment; spouse must also submit marriage/civil-union verification.
External License
Current active same-tier license in good standing in a jurisdiction with substantially similar standards and no unresolved complaint, review or disciplinary proceeding.
Forms
Submit the completed, signed, notarized provisional application with official military verification; provide license verification and jurisdictional licensure law if Board cannot obtain them.
Pending Full Application
Simultaneously submit, or already have pending, the full reciprocity application; supply the documentation and information required for that license under Title 24. The same currently offered national examinations whose passage the full reciprocity route involves remain leaves, even if passage predates the provisional application.
Military spouse provisional licensure pending reciprocity

At least one of the following alternatives:

Duration
Provisional license lasts up to six months from issuance and cannot be renewed.
Eligibility
Qualifying military spouse with official verification of military status, Delaware assignment or deployment; spouse must also submit marriage/civil-union verification.
External License
Current active same-tier license in good standing in a jurisdiction with substantially similar standards and no unresolved complaint, review or disciplinary proceeding.
Forms
Submit the completed, signed, notarized provisional application with official military verification; provide license verification and jurisdictional licensure law if Board cannot obtain them.
Pending Full Application
Simultaneously submit, or already have pending, the full reciprocity application; supply the documentation and information required for that license under Title 24. The same currently offered national examinations whose passage the full reciprocity route involves remain leaves, even if passage predates the provisional application.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Delaware social-work license at the Clinical tier under 24 Del.C. Chapter 39. Grandfather application deadlines have passed; renewal, reactivation and supported upgrades remain available.

Licensing authority: Delaware Board of Social Work Examiners / Division of Professional Regulation · Application information

Continuation and renewal during military deployment
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 40 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Deployment
Qualifying deployed service member holding a valid license at deployment: request continuation with official deployment verification; CE-bearing license does not expire until 270 days after return. Submit renewal documents and CE proof within 180 days after return; other licensure duties remain.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Clinical Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reinstatement after disability suspension
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Board Discretion
Board may impose authorized disciplinary or corrective measures under §3916(e); no identified currently offered licensing examination is prescribed by this reinstatement provision.
Eligibility
License suspended due to disability; Board must be satisfied at a Board meeting that reasonable skill and safety have been restored.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Licensure by examination (including already passed designated examination)
ASWB Clinical Exam
Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Supervisor Instruction Conflict
The Clinical Social Worker application page states: "The supervisor(s) must be a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), licensed master’s level social worker (LMSW), licensed psychologist, or a licensed psychiatrist." Current law and rule restrict LMSW supervision to the grandfather provision.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Direct Supervision
100 direct-supervision hours: at least 75 one-to-one and no more than 25 group hours; at most seven group supervisees. Face-to-face or live video is allowed; telephone and email supervision are not.
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s or doctoral social-work degree, or a doctoral program approved by the Board.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Grandfathered Supervision
Section 3907C permits historical LMSW supervision begun or completed on or before September 26, 2024, with the statutory completion cutoff March 25, 2025. Rule 3.2.2.1 instead says March 26, 2025; the statute controls.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Supervised Experience
3,200 post-degree supervised clinical hours over at least two and no more than five years, including 1,600 clinical hours under direct professional supervision. Verify with Supervisory Reference Forms and the required clinical skills; Board may request supervisory logs.
Supervisor Qualifications
LCSW supervisor; if unavailable, a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with a compelling clinical reason and notarized documentation of attempts to find an LCSW. Supervisors must satisfy rule 3.2.3-3.2.5, including three years post-licensure without discipline, required supervision/cultural-competency/ethics CE, and no more than seven supervisees. Reciprocal supervision is unacceptable.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Renewal or reinstatement under continuing education hardship extension
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 40 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Clinical Social Worker license.
Hardship
Apply in writing before the license period ends, with renewal fee, showing disability, illness, extended absence or exceptional family responsibilities; Board may grant no more than 120 days to complete CE. If approval cannot occur before expiration, the lapsed license is reinstated after completing CE under the exception.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Late renewal within one year
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 40 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Eligibility
Expired license within one year of expiration; pay renewal and late fees. Do not practice until renewed to active status.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Clinical Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Military member or spouse reinstatement within two years
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 40 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Clinical Social Worker license.
Military Reinstatement
Qualifying military member or spouse assigned to a Delaware duty station may seek reinstatement within two years of lapse or expiration; submit official military/spouse verification, required reinstatement documentation and fees. Does not cover suspension/revocation unless reinstated before lapse.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Initial licensure with military education, training or experience credit
ASWB Clinical Exam
Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Supervisor Instruction Conflict
The Clinical Social Worker application page states: "The supervisor(s) must be a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), licensed master’s level social worker (LMSW), licensed psychologist, or a licensed psychiatrist." Current law and rule restrict LMSW supervision to the grandfather provision.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Direct Supervision
100 direct-supervision hours: at least 75 one-to-one and no more than 25 group hours; at most seven group supervisees. Face-to-face or live video is allowed; telephone and email supervision are not.
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s or doctoral social-work degree, or a doctoral program approved by the Board.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Grandfathered Supervision
Section 3907C permits historical LMSW supervision begun or completed on or before September 26, 2024, with the statutory completion cutoff March 25, 2025. Rule 3.2.2.1 instead says March 26, 2025; the statute controls.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
Military Eligibility
Active duty, National Guard, reserve, retired military or veteran with a pending license application; request military education/training/experience credit only when needed to meet degree or experience requirements.
Military Equivalence
Board must find military education, training or experience substantially equivalent. All other requirements, including examinations, remain applicable.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Supervised Experience
3,200 post-degree supervised clinical hours over at least two and no more than five years, including 1,600 clinical hours under direct professional supervision. Verify with Supervisory Reference Forms and the required clinical skills; Board may request supervisory logs.
Supervisor Qualifications
LCSW supervisor; if unavailable, a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with a compelling clinical reason and notarized documentation of attempts to find an LCSW. Supervisors must satisfy rule 3.2.3-3.2.5, including three years post-licensure without discipline, required supervision/cultural-competency/ethics CE, and no more than seven supervisees. Reciprocal supervision is unacceptable.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Removal or reduction of probationary restrictions
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Eligibility
Board finds the deficiencies underlying probation remedied; comply with any corrective conditions under §3916(e).

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reactivation within three years of inactive status
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 40 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Eligibility
Inactive status for no more than three years; submit written intention to reactivate through DELPROS Service Request, satisfy all CE and pay renewal fee.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Clinical Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reapplication after expiration exceeding one year
ASWB Clinical Exam
Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Supervisor Instruction Conflict
The Clinical Social Worker application page states: "The supervisor(s) must be a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), licensed master’s level social worker (LMSW), licensed psychologist, or a licensed psychiatrist." Current law and rule restrict LMSW supervision to the grandfather provision.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Direct Supervision
100 direct-supervision hours: at least 75 one-to-one and no more than 25 group hours; at most seven group supervisees. Face-to-face or live video is allowed; telephone and email supervision are not.
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s or doctoral social-work degree, or a doctoral program approved by the Board.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Grandfathered Supervision
Section 3907C permits historical LMSW supervision begun or completed on or before September 26, 2024, with the statutory completion cutoff March 25, 2025. Rule 3.2.2.1 instead says March 26, 2025; the statute controls.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
New Application
Reapply as a new applicant; the ordinary degree, clinical experience when applicable, designated ASWB examination passage and documentation requirements apply. A qualifying current external license may instead support reciprocity.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Reapplication Eligibility
Prior Delaware license expired for more than one year.
Supervised Experience
3,200 post-degree supervised clinical hours over at least two and no more than five years, including 1,600 clinical hours under direct professional supervision. Verify with Supervisory Reference Forms and the required clinical skills; Board may request supervisory logs.
Supervisor Qualifications
LCSW supervisor; if unavailable, a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with a compelling clinical reason and notarized documentation of attempts to find an LCSW. Supervisors must satisfy rule 3.2.3-3.2.5, including three years post-licensure without discipline, required supervision/cultural-competency/ethics CE, and no more than seven supervisees. Reciprocal supervision is unacceptable.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Reapplication after inactivity exceeding three years
ASWB Clinical Exam
Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Supervisor Instruction Conflict
The Clinical Social Worker application page states: "The supervisor(s) must be a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), licensed master’s level social worker (LMSW), licensed psychologist, or a licensed psychiatrist." Current law and rule restrict LMSW supervision to the grandfather provision.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Direct Supervision
100 direct-supervision hours: at least 75 one-to-one and no more than 25 group hours; at most seven group supervisees. Face-to-face or live video is allowed; telephone and email supervision are not.
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s or doctoral social-work degree, or a doctoral program approved by the Board.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Grandfathered Supervision
Section 3907C permits historical LMSW supervision begun or completed on or before September 26, 2024, with the statutory completion cutoff March 25, 2025. Rule 3.2.2.1 instead says March 26, 2025; the statute controls.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
New Application
Reapply as a new applicant; the ordinary degree, clinical experience when applicable, designated ASWB examination passage and documentation requirements apply. A qualifying current external license may instead support reciprocity.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Reapplication Eligibility
Prior Delaware license inactive for more than three years.
Supervised Experience
3,200 post-degree supervised clinical hours over at least two and no more than five years, including 1,600 clinical hours under direct professional supervision. Verify with Supervisory Reference Forms and the required clinical skills; Board may request supervisory logs.
Supervisor Qualifications
LCSW supervisor; if unavailable, a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with a compelling clinical reason and notarized documentation of attempts to find an LCSW. Supervisors must satisfy rule 3.2.3-3.2.5, including three years post-licensure without discipline, required supervision/cultural-competency/ethics CE, and no more than seven supervisees. Reciprocal supervision is unacceptable.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Reciprocity: less stringent standards with five of seven year practice
ASWB Clinical Exam
Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Supervisor Instruction Conflict
The Clinical Social Worker application page states: "The supervisor(s) must be a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), licensed master’s level social worker (LMSW), licensed psychologist, or a licensed psychiatrist." Current law and rule restrict LMSW supervision to the grandfather provision.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Direct Supervision
100 direct-supervision hours: at least 75 one-to-one and no more than 25 group hours; at most seven group supervisees. Face-to-face or live video is allowed; telephone and email supervision are not.
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s or doctoral social-work degree, or a doctoral program approved by the Board.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Existing License
Current active same-tier social-work license in good standing; provide direct verification from every jurisdiction ever licensed, certified disciplinary statements, and the licensing laws and regulations.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Grandfathered Supervision
Section 3907C permits historical LMSW supervision begun or completed on or before September 26, 2024, with the statutory completion cutoff March 25, 2025. Rule 3.2.2.1 instead says March 26, 2025; the statute controls.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Practice Experience
Prove at least five years of practice in the corresponding field in the seven years immediately before application under §3909(b).
Substantial Similarity
License standards are less stringent; Board may determine their equivalence.
Supervised Experience
3,200 post-degree supervised clinical hours over at least two and no more than five years, including 1,600 clinical hours under direct professional supervision. Verify with Supervisory Reference Forms and the required clinical skills; Board may request supervisory logs.
Supervisor Qualifications
LCSW supervisor; if unavailable, a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with a compelling clinical reason and notarized documentation of attempts to find an LCSW. Supervisors must satisfy rule 3.2.3-3.2.5, including three years post-licensure without discipline, required supervision/cultural-competency/ethics CE, and no more than seven supervisees. Reciprocal supervision is unacceptable.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Reciprocity: substantially similar licensing standards
ASWB Clinical Exam
Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Supervisor Instruction Conflict
The Clinical Social Worker application page states: "The supervisor(s) must be a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), licensed master’s level social worker (LMSW), licensed psychologist, or a licensed psychiatrist." Current law and rule restrict LMSW supervision to the grandfather provision.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Direct Supervision
100 direct-supervision hours: at least 75 one-to-one and no more than 25 group hours; at most seven group supervisees. Face-to-face or live video is allowed; telephone and email supervision are not.
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s or doctoral social-work degree, or a doctoral program approved by the Board.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Existing License
Current active same-tier social-work license in good standing; provide direct verification from every jurisdiction ever licensed, certified disciplinary statements, and the licensing laws and regulations.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Grandfathered Supervision
Section 3907C permits historical LMSW supervision begun or completed on or before September 26, 2024, with the statutory completion cutoff March 25, 2025. Rule 3.2.2.1 instead says March 26, 2025; the statute controls.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Substantial Similarity
Board determines that the other jurisdiction’s standards are substantially similar to Delaware’s educational, experience and supervision standards.
Supervised Experience
3,200 post-degree supervised clinical hours over at least two and no more than five years, including 1,600 clinical hours under direct professional supervision. Verify with Supervisory Reference Forms and the required clinical skills; Board may request supervisory logs.
Supervisor Qualifications
LCSW supervisor; if unavailable, a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with a compelling clinical reason and notarized documentation of attempts to find an LCSW. Supervisors must satisfy rule 3.2.3-3.2.5, including three years post-licensure without discipline, required supervision/cultural-competency/ethics CE, and no more than seven supervisees. Reciprocal supervision is unacceptable.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Biennial renewal
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 40 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Clinical Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reinstatement of a suspended license with Board corrective conditions
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Board Discretion
Comply with individually imposed corrective measures; §3916(e) identifies no additional licensing examination.
Eligibility
Previously suspended Delaware license; reinstatement is subject to Board action and disciplinary or corrective measures authorized by Chapter 39.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Upgrade from lower tier Delaware social work license
ASWB Clinical Exam
Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Existing License
Current active Delaware LBSW or LMSW obtained by examination. The same page expressly instructs grandfathered LBSW applicants to meet all Clinical requirements; licenses obtained by reciprocity are not eligible.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Higher Tier Requirements
Meet all education and clinical supervised experience and examination requirements of the higher tier. Official transcript need not be resubmitted if already on file.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Restoration of unrestricted licensure after voluntary treatment
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Eligibility
Restricted practice under the Voluntary Treatment Option; complete the treatment program and comply with the treatment agreement before applying for unrestricted licensure.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Military Provisional Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Six-month, nonrenewable provisional form of this social-work license while the full reciprocity application is pending under 29 Del.C. §8735(r).

Licensing authority: Delaware Board of Social Work Examiners / Division of Professional Regulation · Application information

Military member provisional licensure pending reciprocity
ASWB Clinical Exam
Duration
Provisional license lasts up to six months from issuance and cannot be renewed.
Eligibility
Qualifying military member with official verification of military status, Delaware assignment or deployment; spouse must also submit marriage/civil-union verification.
External License
Current active same-tier license in good standing in a jurisdiction with substantially similar standards and no unresolved complaint, review or disciplinary proceeding.
Forms
Submit the completed, signed, notarized provisional application with official military verification; provide license verification and jurisdictional licensure law if Board cannot obtain them.
Pending Full Application
Simultaneously submit, or already have pending, the full reciprocity application; supply the documentation and information required for that license under Title 24. The same currently offered national examinations whose passage the full reciprocity route involves remain leaves, even if passage predates the provisional application.
Military spouse provisional licensure pending reciprocity
ASWB Clinical Exam
Duration
Provisional license lasts up to six months from issuance and cannot be renewed.
Eligibility
Qualifying military spouse with official verification of military status, Delaware assignment or deployment; spouse must also submit marriage/civil-union verification.
External License
Current active same-tier license in good standing in a jurisdiction with substantially similar standards and no unresolved complaint, review or disciplinary proceeding.
Forms
Submit the completed, signed, notarized provisional application with official military verification; provide license verification and jurisdictional licensure law if Board cannot obtain them.
Pending Full Application
Simultaneously submit, or already have pending, the full reciprocity application; supply the documentation and information required for that license under Title 24. The same currently offered national examinations whose passage the full reciprocity route involves remain leaves, even if passage predates the provisional application.

Licensed Masters Social Worker

Delaware social-work license at the Masters tier under 24 Del.C. Chapter 39. Grandfather application deadlines have passed; renewal, reactivation and supported upgrades remain available.

Licensing authority: Delaware Board of Social Work Examiners / Division of Professional Regulation · Application information

Continuation and renewal during military deployment
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 30 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Deployment
Qualifying deployed service member holding a valid license at deployment: request continuation with official deployment verification; CE-bearing license does not expire until 270 days after return. Submit renewal documents and CE proof within 180 days after return; other licensure duties remain.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Masters Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reinstatement after disability suspension
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Board Discretion
Board may impose authorized disciplinary or corrective measures under §3916(e); no identified currently offered licensing examination is prescribed by this reinstatement provision.
Eligibility
License suspended due to disability; Board must be satisfied at a Board meeting that reasonable skill and safety have been restored.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Licensure by examination (including already passed designated examination)

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Masters examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Renewal or reinstatement under continuing education hardship extension
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 30 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Masters Social Worker license.
Hardship
Apply in writing before the license period ends, with renewal fee, showing disability, illness, extended absence or exceptional family responsibilities; Board may grant no more than 120 days to complete CE. If approval cannot occur before expiration, the lapsed license is reinstated after completing CE under the exception.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Late renewal within one year
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 30 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Eligibility
Expired license within one year of expiration; pay renewal and late fees. Do not practice until renewed to active status.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Masters Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Military member or spouse reinstatement within two years
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 30 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Masters Social Worker license.
Military Reinstatement
Qualifying military member or spouse assigned to a Delaware duty station may seek reinstatement within two years of lapse or expiration; submit official military/spouse verification, required reinstatement documentation and fees. Does not cover suspension/revocation unless reinstated before lapse.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Initial licensure with military education, training or experience credit

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Masters examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
Military Eligibility
Active duty, National Guard, reserve, retired military or veteran with a pending license application; request military education/training/experience credit only when needed to meet degree or experience requirements.
Military Equivalence
Board must find military education, training or experience substantially equivalent. All other requirements, including examinations, remain applicable.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Removal or reduction of probationary restrictions
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Eligibility
Board finds the deficiencies underlying probation remedied; comply with any corrective conditions under §3916(e).

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reactivation within three years of inactive status
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 30 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Eligibility
Inactive status for no more than three years; submit written intention to reactivate through DELPROS Service Request, satisfy all CE and pay renewal fee.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Masters Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reapplication after expiration exceeding one year

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Masters examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
New Application
Reapply as a new applicant; the ordinary degree, clinical experience when applicable, designated ASWB examination passage and documentation requirements apply. A qualifying current external license may instead support reciprocity.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Reapplication Eligibility
Prior Delaware license expired for more than one year.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Reapplication after inactivity exceeding three years

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Masters examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Initial Eligibility
Apply by examination if Board exam approval is needed or the ASWB exam has already been passed but there is no current corresponding social-work license in another jurisdiction.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
New Application
Reapply as a new applicant; the ordinary degree, clinical experience when applicable, designated ASWB examination passage and documentation requirements apply. A qualifying current external license may instead support reciprocity.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Reapplication Eligibility
Prior Delaware license inactive for more than three years.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Reciprocity: less stringent standards with five of seven year practice

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Masters examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Existing License
Current active same-tier social-work license in good standing; provide direct verification from every jurisdiction ever licensed, certified disciplinary statements, and the licensing laws and regulations.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Practice Experience
Prove at least five years of practice in the corresponding field in the seven years immediately before application under §3909(b).
Substantial Similarity
License standards are less stringent; Board may determine their equivalence.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Reciprocity: substantially similar licensing standards

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Clinical Score Instruction
The Bachelors and Masters application page states: "An offical score verifiation sent directly from ASWB to the Board office verifying you have passed the clinical level exam." This demand is retained alongside the level-specific examination instructions; the rule expressly permits another Board-acceptable examination.
Board Level Selection
The Board examination page identifies Bachelors, Masters and Clinical levels. Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board. This tree retains the corresponding Masters examination and the expressly named Clinical alternative; obtain Board approval for the applicable level, rather than treating the alternatives as an automatic entitlement.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Education
CSWE-accredited master’s degree in social work.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Existing License
Current active same-tier social-work license in good standing; provide direct verification from every jurisdiction ever licensed, certified disciplinary statements, and the licensing laws and regulations.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Substantial Similarity
Board determines that the other jurisdiction’s standards are substantially similar to Delaware’s educational, experience and supervision standards.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Biennial renewal
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Continuing Education
Complete 30 CE hours per biennium, including at least six ethics hours and one mandatory-reporting hour. Initial-period proration under rule 7.1 applies; retain documentation and satisfy random audit requirements. CE course exams are educational conditions, not licensing-exam leaves.
Existing License
Current Delaware Licensed Masters Social Worker license.
Renewal
Renew biennially in DELPROS; license expires January 31 of odd-numbered years; submit application and renewal fee.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reinstatement of a suspended license with Board corrective conditions
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Board Discretion
Comply with individually imposed corrective measures; §3916(e) identifies no additional licensing examination.
Eligibility
Previously suspended Delaware license; reinstatement is subject to Board action and disciplinary or corrective measures authorized by Chapter 39.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Upgrade from lower tier Delaware social work license

At least one of the following alternatives:

Abuse Registries
Provide child and adult abuse registry reports for Delaware and every jurisdiction where licensed, employed, or resident as an adult; submit the Child Protection Registry Consent Form.
Application
Submit the sworn application, all required information and applicable fee to the Board through DELPROS.
Board Exam Wording
Rule 2.2.1 expressly names Clinical or another examination acceptable to the Board; the Board offers Masters-level examinations. Both named possibilities are retained, subject to Board approval.
Closed Grandfather Applications
Section 3907B required completed applications and all requested information by June 11, 2021. New grandfather applications are not available on the evaluation date; existing grandfathered licensees may use the Board-supported upgrade pathway.
Criminal History
Submit fingerprints and Delaware and FBI criminal-history reports at applicant expense; licensing waits for the reports. A felony sexual-offense conviction cannot be waived. A substantially related conviction may be waived only under §3907(a)(7) and §8735(x)(3).
Disciplinary History
Meet 24 Del.C. §3907(a): disclose and verify every prior social-work license and disciplinary history; no acts constituting grounds for discipline.
Examination Approval
If an examination has not been passed, obtain Board approval before registering with ASWB; pass within two years of submitted application or reapply. Retakes are permitted every 90 days with ASWB registration and full examination fee.
Existing License
Current active Delaware LBSW obtained by examination or grandfather provision; licenses obtained by reciprocity are not eligible.
Fitness
No drug/alcohol impairment or finding of mental incompetence limiting safe social-work practice.
Foreign Education
If relying on a degree from outside the United States or its territories, arrange and pay for Board-approved credential evaluation showing CSWE-equivalent professional instruction under §3907A and rule 5.0; the Board instructions identify ISWDRES.
Higher Tier Requirements
Meet all education and examination requirements of the higher tier. Official transcript need not be resubmitted if already on file.
National Score
A passing designated ASWB score is an examination leaf even if obtained before this application. Official score verification must be sent directly from ASWB. Section 3908(b) accepts previous passage and requires no further state examination.
Open Examination Alternative
Rule 2.2.1 also permits another examination acceptable to the Board; the unnamed remainder is an applicant condition, not an invented exam identity.
Temporary Practice Exemption
Section 3903(c)(1)a separately exempts a social worker licensed in good standing elsewhere for at most 30 days per year after prior written Board application and approval, within that external license scope. This is an exemption, not a Delaware license type.
Restoration of unrestricted licensure after voluntary treatment
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Eligibility
Restricted practice under the Voluntary Treatment Option; complete the treatment program and comply with the treatment agreement before applying for unrestricted licensure.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Military Provisional Licensed Masters Social Worker

Six-month, nonrenewable provisional form of this social-work license while the full reciprocity application is pending under 29 Del.C. §8735(r).

Licensing authority: Delaware Board of Social Work Examiners / Division of Professional Regulation · Application information

Military member provisional licensure pending reciprocity

At least one of the following alternatives:

Duration
Provisional license lasts up to six months from issuance and cannot be renewed.
Eligibility
Qualifying military member with official verification of military status, Delaware assignment or deployment; spouse must also submit marriage/civil-union verification.
External License
Current active same-tier license in good standing in a jurisdiction with substantially similar standards and no unresolved complaint, review or disciplinary proceeding.
Forms
Submit the completed, signed, notarized provisional application with official military verification; provide license verification and jurisdictional licensure law if Board cannot obtain them.
Pending Full Application
Simultaneously submit, or already have pending, the full reciprocity application; supply the documentation and information required for that license under Title 24. The same currently offered national examinations whose passage the full reciprocity route involves remain leaves, even if passage predates the provisional application.
Military spouse provisional licensure pending reciprocity

At least one of the following alternatives:

Duration
Provisional license lasts up to six months from issuance and cannot be renewed.
Eligibility
Qualifying military spouse with official verification of military status, Delaware assignment or deployment; spouse must also submit marriage/civil-union verification.
External License
Current active same-tier license in good standing in a jurisdiction with substantially similar standards and no unresolved complaint, review or disciplinary proceeding.
Forms
Submit the completed, signed, notarized provisional application with official military verification; provide license verification and jurisdictional licensure law if Board cannot obtain them.
Pending Full Application
Simultaneously submit, or already have pending, the full reciprocity application; supply the documentation and information required for that license under Title 24. The same currently offered national examinations whose passage the full reciprocity route involves remain leaves, even if passage predates the provisional application.

ASWB Bachelors Exam

Provider
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB); administered on computer at Pearson test centers
Format
Computer-based multiple-choice examination (three- and four-option questions) in two 61-question sections, each with a two-hour time limit; scored and pretest questions are mixed together; results reported as pass/fail
Exam questions
122 multiple-choice questions: 110 scored and 12 unscored pretest questions
Time limit
4 hours (two sections, each with a two-hour time limit)
Passing score
Pass/fail; the number of correct answers required varies by exam form and generally ranges from 66 to 78 of the 110 scored questions
Exam fee
US$230 exam registration fee
Examination outline
  • I. VALUES AND ETHICS (35%) (35%)
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Legal and ethical issues related to the practice of social work, including responsibility to clients/client systems, colleagues, the profession, and society
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Principles and processes of obtaining informed consent
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Legal and ethical issues regarding confidentiality, including limitations of confidentiality (e.g., HIPAA, PHI, privacy)
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Professional values and principles (e.g., competence, social justice, integrity, dignity and worth of the person)
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Burnout, secondary trauma, and compassion fatigue
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Social worker self-care principles
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Importance of professional development activities to improve practice and maintain current professional knowledge (e.g., in-service training, licensing requirements, reviews of literature, workshops, on-going supervision, consultation)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Professional boundaries in the social worker-client/client system relationship (e.g., power differences, influence, privilege, conflicts of interest, self-disclosure, dual relationships)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Protecting and enhancing client/client system self-determination (e.g., medication, medical treatment, counseling, placement, right to refuse services)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues regarding mandatory reporting (e.g., abuse, threat of harm, impaired professionals, duty to warn)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues regarding documentation (e.g., maintaining client records)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Impact of governmental policies on service delivery (e.g., local, state, federal legislation and policy)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues related to death and dying
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Ethical issues in supervision and management
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Responsible billing practices (e.g., managed care, insurance reimbursement, incident to billing)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Ethical issues related to electronic practice
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues regarding termination
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Anti-oppressive and anti-racist approaches
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Social, racial, environmental, and economic justice principles
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Impact of culture, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and intersectionality on behaviors, attitudes, and identity formation
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Accessibility including language, physical, and cultural access (e.g., translation and interpretation, neurodiversity, American Sign Language)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Social justice, truth and reconciliation, and restorative practices related to clients/client systems from historically oppressed and marginalized communities
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Cultural impacts of exploitation across marginalized communities (e.g., financial, immigration status, trafficking, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Privilege and bias and their impact on client/client systems (e.g., implicit bias, microaggressions)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Power differential and racial privilege (e.g., internalized racial and ethnic inferiority and superiority)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Impact of globalization, immigration, and refugee or immigration status on clients/client systems and service delivery
  • II. ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING (33%) (33%)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of poverty on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities (e.g., social determinants of health)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators and impact of trauma, stressors, violence, and crises on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities (e.g., intergenerational, historical, and complex)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators and impact of addiction and substance use and abuse on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators, dynamics, and impact of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse and neglect on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Family dynamics and functioning and the effects on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Dynamics of interpersonal relationships and relationship development (e.g., family, couples, groups, polyamory)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators of mental and emotional illness throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of out-of-home placement (e.g., hospitalization, foster care, residential care, criminal justice system) on clients/client systems
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Factors of out-of-home displacement (e.g., homelessness, immigration, and refugee status) on clients/client systems
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Co-occurring disorders and conditions
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Factors influencing self- and body-image (e.g., culture, race, religion/spirituality, age, ability, trauma, gender, sexuality, size)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Characteristics of perpetrators of abuse, neglect, and exploitation
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of caregiving on families
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators, dynamics, and impact of exploitation across the lifespan (e.g., financial, immigration status, trafficking)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Biopsychosocial assessment model and related components and factors
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Effects of physical and mental ability throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Typical and atypical physical, cognitive, emotional, and sexual development throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of aging on the individual and family systems
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Racial, ethnic, cultural, and spiritual/faith development throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Defense mechanisms and their effects on behavior and relationships
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — The influence and impact of technology, including social media, on client/client-systems (personal and professional)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of urbanization, globalization, environmental hazards, and climate change on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Client/client system competence, self-determination, and self-monitoring techniques (e.g., financial decisions, treatment decisions, emancipation, age of consent, permanency planning)
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of assessing risk of harm to self and others
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Principles and techniques of interviewing (e.g., supporting, clarifying, confronting, validating, feedback, reflecting, language differences, use of interpreters)
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of involving clients/client systems in problem identification, problem solving, and intervention planning
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods, techniques, and instruments for assessing client/client system strengths, resources, needs, and challenges
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods for obtaining sensitive and/or confidential information (e.g., substance use, sexual abuse)
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods for assessing resilience and coping abilities
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Indicators of and methods of assessing motivation, barriers, and readiness for change
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Components and function of the mental status examination
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of assessing clients’/client systems’ communication skills
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of incorporating information from records and evaluations (e.g., employment, medical, psychological, school)
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Assessing the availability of and determining appropriate community resources
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Factors and processes used in goal planning, treatment planning, triage, and service plans
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Criteria used in the selection of intervention/treatment modalities (e.g., client/client system abilities, developmental level, culture, life stage)
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Cultural considerations in the creation of an intervention plan
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Indicators of client/client system readiness for termination
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Use and side effects of common prescription, over-the-counter, and alternative medications
  • III. INTERVENTION AND PRACTICE (32%) (32%)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Principles and techniques for building and maintaining a helping relationship (e.g., acceptance, empathy, rapport)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — The social worker’s role in the problem-solving process
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Strengths-based and empowerment strategies and interventions
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Interdisciplinary and intra-disciplinary team collaboration (e.g., co-therapy, care conference, IEP)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — End of life practice (e.g., continuity of care, hospice, palliative care, stages of death and dying)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Parenting capacities and skill building
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Permanency planning (e.g., child welfare)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Policies, procedures, regulations, and legislation and their impact on social work practice and service delivery
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Community organizing, development, and mobilizing community participation
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Principles of active listening and observation
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Verbal and nonverbal communication (e.g., body language, congruence, feedback)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods and approaches for providing trauma-informed care for various types of trauma (e.g., complex, vicarious)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Limit and boundary setting techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Case management techniques (e.g., case recording, documentation, case presentation)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Approaches to and methods of advocacy for needed services and resources
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Evidence-based practices (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness based stress reduction, motivational interviewing, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods for engaging and motivating voluntary and involuntary clients/client systems
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Contracting and goal-setting techniques (e.g., partializing, measurable objectives)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Practice with clients experiencing loss, separation, and grief
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Emotional regulation techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Crisis intervention and treatment approaches
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Stress management techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Discharge, aftercare, wrap-around services, and follow-up
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of teaching coping and other self-care skills to clients
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Techniques and methods for addiction intervention
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Establishing service networks or community resources
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Problem-solving models and approaches
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Harm reduction techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Conflict resolution methods
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Anger management techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Task-centered approaches
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Psychoeducation methods
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Group work techniques and approaches (e.g., developing and managing group processes and cohesion)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Role modeling techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Social change and social planning methods
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Assertiveness training techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Role play techniques
    • IIIC. PRACTICE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Techniques for evaluating progress and effectiveness of intervention, treatment, and service plans
    • IIIC. PRACTICE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Methods of evaluating agency programs (e.g., needs assessment, formative/summative assessment, cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit analysis, outcomes assessment)
    • IIIC. PRACTICE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Methods, techniques, and instruments used to evaluate social work practice
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Organizational development, structure, and functioning (e.g., policies, procedures)
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Supervisee’s role in supervision (e.g., identifying learning needs, self-assessment, prioritizing)
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Supervision and consultation models and techniques (e.g., individual, peer, group, case recording)
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Transference and countertransference within supervisory relationships
Examination sources

ASWB Clinical Exam

Provider
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB); administered on computer at Pearson test centers
Format
Computer-based multiple-choice examination (three- and four-option questions) in two 61-question sections, each with a two-hour time limit; scored and pretest questions are mixed together; results reported as pass/fail
Exam questions
122 multiple-choice questions: 110 scored and 12 unscored pretest questions
Time limit
4 hours (two sections, each with a two-hour time limit)
Passing score
Pass/fail; the number of correct answers required varies by exam form and generally ranges from 66 to 78 of the 110 scored questions
Exam fee
US$260 exam registration fee
Examination outline
  • I. VALUES AND ETHICS (36%) (36%)
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Legal and ethical issues regarding confidentiality, including limitations of confidentiality (e.g., HIPAA, PHI, privacy)
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Legal and ethical issues related to the practice of social work, including responsibility to clients/client systems, colleagues, the profession, and society
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Principles and processes of obtaining informed consent
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Professional values and principles (e.g., competence, social justice, integrity, dignity and worth of the person)
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Burnout, secondary trauma, and compassion fatigue
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Social worker self-care principles
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Importance of professional development activities to improve practice and maintain current professional knowledge (e.g., in-service training, licensing requirements, reviews of literature, workshops, on-going supervision, consultation)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Protecting and enhancing client/client system self-determination (e.g., medication, medical treatment, counseling, placement, right to refuse services)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Professional boundaries in the social worker-client/client system relationship (e.g., power differences, influence, privilege, conflicts of interest, self-disclosure, dual relationships)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues regarding mandatory reporting (e.g., abuse, threat of harm, impaired professionals, duty to warn)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues regarding documentation (e.g., maintaining client records)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Responsible billing practices (e.g., managed care, insurance reimbursement, incident to billing)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues related to death and dying
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Ethical issues in supervision and management
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Impact of governmental policies on service delivery (e.g., local, state, federal legislation and policy)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues regarding termination
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Ethical issues related to electronic practice
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Research ethics (e.g., institutional review boards, use of human subjects, informed consent)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Anti-oppressive and anti-racist approaches
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Social, racial, environmental, and economic justice principles
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Impact of culture, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and intersectionality on behaviors, attitudes, and identity formation
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Accessibility including language, physical, and cultural access (e.g., translation and interpretation, neurodiversity, American Sign Language)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Power differential and racial privilege (e.g., internalized racial and ethnic inferiority and superiority)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Privilege and bias and their impact on client/client systems (e.g., implicit bias, microaggressions)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Cultural impacts of exploitation across marginalized communities (e.g., financial, immigration status, trafficking, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Social justice, truth and reconciliation, and restorative practices related to clients/client systems from historically oppressed and marginalized communities
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Impact of globalization, immigration, and refugee or immigration status on clients/client systems and service delivery
  • II. ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING (32% — the heading in the Clinical content outline prints no percentage; page 6 of the guidebook states the Clinical examination will have 32 percent of the questions testing Assessment and Planning) (32%)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators and impact of trauma, stressors, violence, and crises on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities (e.g., intergenerational, historical, and complex)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Family dynamics and functioning and the effects on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Dynamics of interpersonal relationships and relationship development (e.g., family, couples, groups, polyamory)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators, dynamics, and impact of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse and neglect on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators of mental and emotional illness throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Co-occurring disorders and conditions
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Biopsychosocial assessment model and related components and factors
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators and impact of addiction and substance use and abuse on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of poverty on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities (e.g., social determinants of health)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Factors influencing self- and body-image (e.g., culture, race, religion/spirituality, age, ability, trauma, gender, sexuality, size)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Defense mechanisms and their effects on behavior and relationships
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Characteristics of perpetrators of abuse, neglect, and exploitation
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of out-of-home placement (e.g., hospitalization, foster care, residential care, criminal justice system) on clients/client systems
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of caregiving on families
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators, dynamics, and impact of exploitation across the lifespan (e.g., financial, immigration status, trafficking)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Typical and atypical physical, cognitive, emotional, and sexual development throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Effects of physical and mental ability throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of aging on the individual and family systems
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Racial, ethnic, cultural, and spiritual/faith development throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Factors of out-of-home displacement (e.g., homelessness, immigration, and refugee status) on clients/client systems
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — The influence and impact of technology, including social media, on client/client-systems (personal and professional)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of urbanization, globalization, environmental hazards, and climate change on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Client/client system competence, self-determination, and self-monitoring techniques (e.g., financial decisions, treatment decisions, emancipation, age of consent, permanency planning)
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of assessing risk of harm to self and others
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Principles and techniques of interviewing (e.g., supporting, clarifying, confronting, validating, feedback, reflecting, language differences, use of interpreters)
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of involving clients/client systems in problem identification, problem solving, and intervention planning
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Indicators of and methods of assessing motivation, barriers, and readiness for change
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods for assessing resilience and coping abilities
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods, techniques, and instruments for assessing client/client system strengths, resources, needs, and challenges
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods for obtaining sensitive and/or confidential information (e.g., substance use, sexual abuse)
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of assessing clients’/client systems’ communication skills
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in assessment and common indicators of mental health and brain-related conditions
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Components and function of the mental status examination
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of incorporating information from records and evaluations (e.g., employment, medical, psychological, school)
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Assessing the availability of and determining appropriate community resources
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Factors and processes used in goal planning, treatment planning, triage, and service plans
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Criteria used in the selection of intervention/treatment modalities (e.g., client/client system abilities, developmental level, culture, life stage)
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Cultural considerations in the creation of an intervention plan
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Use and side effects of common prescription, over-the-counter, and alternative medications
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Indicators of client/client system readiness for termination
  • III. INTERVENTION AND PRACTICE (32%) (32%)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Strengths-based and empowerment strategies and interventions
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Principles and techniques for building and maintaining a helping relationship (e.g., acceptance, empathy, rapport)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Interdisciplinary and intra-disciplinary team collaboration (e.g., co-therapy, care conference, IEP)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — The social worker’s role in the problem-solving process
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — End of life practice (e.g., continuity of care, hospice, palliative care, stages of death and dying)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Parenting capacities and skill building
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Policies, procedures, regulations, and legislation and their impact on social work practice and service delivery
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Developing formal documents (e.g., grants, proposals, reports, evaluations)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods and approaches for providing trauma-informed care for various types of trauma (e.g., complex, vicarious)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Verbal and nonverbal communication (e.g., body language, congruence, feedback)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Principles of active listening and observation
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Limit and boundary setting techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Crisis intervention and treatment approaches
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Emotional regulation techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Evidence-based practices (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness based stress reduction, motivational interviewing, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of teaching coping and other self-care skills to clients
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Stress management techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Practice with clients experiencing loss, separation, and grief
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods for engaging and motivating voluntary and involuntary clients/client systems
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Harm reduction techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Approaches to and methods of advocacy for needed services and resources
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Psychoeducation methods
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Contracting and goal-setting techniques (e.g., partializing, measurable objectives)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Problem-solving models and approaches
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Techniques and methods for addiction intervention
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Case management techniques (e.g., case recording, documentation, case presentation)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Conflict resolution methods
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Anger management techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Family therapy models, interventions, and approaches
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Discharge, aftercare, wrap-around services, and follow-up
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Group work techniques and approaches (e.g., developing and managing group processes and cohesion)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Establishing service networks or community resources
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Assertiveness training techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Role modeling techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Couples interventions and treatment approaches
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Role play techniques
    • IIIC. PRACTICE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Techniques for evaluating progress and effectiveness of intervention, treatment, and service plans
    • IIIC. PRACTICE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Methods of establishing program objectives and outcomes
    • IIIC. PRACTICE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Program evaluation and related impact on services
    • IIIC. PRACTICE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Methods of evaluating agency programs (e.g., needs assessment, formative/summative assessment, cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit analysis, outcomes assessment)
    • IIIC. PRACTICE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Basic and applied research design and methods, data collection and analysis methods, and methods to assess reliability and validity in social work research (e.g., objective, subjective, qualitative, quantitative)
    • IIIC. PRACTICE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Quality assurance (e.g., program reviews and audits by external sources)
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Supervisee’s role in supervision (e.g., identifying learning needs, self-assessment, prioritizing)
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Supervision and consultation models and techniques (e.g., individual, peer, group, case recording)
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Transference and countertransference within supervisory relationships
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Methods for creating, implementing, and evaluating policies and procedures that minimize risk for individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Organizational development, structure, and functioning (e.g., policies, procedures)
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Fiscal management and resource allocation techniques
Examination sources

ASWB Masters Exam

Provider
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB); administered on computer at Pearson test centers
Format
Computer-based multiple-choice examination (three- and four-option questions) in two 61-question sections, each with a two-hour time limit; scored and pretest questions are mixed together; results reported as pass/fail
Exam questions
122 multiple-choice questions: 110 scored and 12 unscored pretest questions
Time limit
4 hours (two sections, each with a two-hour time limit)
Passing score
Pass/fail; the number of correct answers required varies by exam form and generally ranges from 66 to 78 of the 110 scored questions
Exam fee
US$230 exam registration fee
Examination outline
  • I. VALUES AND ETHICS (35%) (35%)
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Principles and processes of obtaining informed consent
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Legal and ethical issues regarding confidentiality, including limitations of confidentiality (e.g., HIPAA, PHI, privacy)
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Legal and ethical issues related to the practice of social work, including responsibility to clients/client systems, colleagues, the profession, and society
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Professional values and principles (e.g., competence, social justice, integrity, dignity and worth of the person)
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Burnout, secondary trauma, and compassion fatigue
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Social worker self-care principles
    • IA. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES — Importance of professional development activities to improve practice and maintain current professional knowledge (e.g., in-service training, licensing requirements, reviews of literature, workshops, on-going supervision, consultation)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Professional boundaries in the social worker-client/client system relationship (e.g., power differences, influence, privilege, conflicts of interest, self-disclosure, dual relationships)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Protecting and enhancing client/client system self-determination (e.g., medication, medical treatment, counseling, placement, right to refuse services)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues regarding mandatory reporting (e.g., abuse, threat of harm, impaired professionals, duty to warn)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues regarding documentation (e.g., maintaining client records)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Impact of governmental policies on service delivery (e.g., local, state, federal legislation and policy)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues related to death and dying
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Ethical issues in supervision and management
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Responsible billing practices (e.g., managed care, insurance reimbursement, incident to billing)
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Ethical issues related to electronic practice
    • IB. ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY — Legal and ethical issues regarding termination
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Anti-oppressive and anti-racist approaches
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Social, racial, environmental, and economic justice principles
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Impact of culture, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and intersectionality on behaviors, attitudes, and identity formation
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Accessibility including language, physical, and cultural access (e.g., translation and interpretation, neurodiversity, American Sign Language)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Privilege and bias and their impact on client/client systems (e.g., implicit bias, microaggressions)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Power differential and racial privilege (e.g., internalized racial and ethnic inferiority and superiority)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Cultural impacts of exploitation across marginalized communities (e.g., financial, immigration status, trafficking, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women)
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Social justice, truth and reconciliation, and restorative practices related to clients/client systems from historically oppressed and marginalized communities
    • IC. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — Impact of globalization, immigration, and refugee or immigration status on clients/client systems and service delivery
  • II. ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING (33%) (33%)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators and impact of trauma, stressors, violence, and crises on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities (e.g., intergenerational, historical, and complex)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Family dynamics and functioning and the effects on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of poverty on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities (e.g., social determinants of health)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Dynamics of interpersonal relationships and relationship development (e.g., family, couples, groups, polyamory)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators, dynamics, and impact of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse and neglect on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators of mental and emotional illness throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of out-of-home placement (e.g., hospitalization, foster care, residential care, criminal justice system) on clients/client systems
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of caregiving on families
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators and impact of addiction and substance use and abuse on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Co-occurring disorders and conditions
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Biopsychosocial assessment model and related components and factors
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Characteristics of perpetrators of abuse, neglect, and exploitation
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Indicators, dynamics, and impact of exploitation across the lifespan (e.g., financial, immigration status, trafficking)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Defense mechanisms and their effects on behavior and relationships
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Effects of physical and mental ability throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Factors of out-of-home displacement (e.g., homelessness, immigration, and refugee status) on clients/client systems
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of aging on the individual and family systems
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Factors influencing self- and body-image (e.g., culture, race, religion/spirituality, age, ability, trauma, gender, sexuality, size)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Racial, ethnic, cultural, and spiritual/faith development throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Typical and atypical physical, cognitive, emotional, and sexual development throughout the lifespan
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — The influence and impact of technology, including social media, on client/client-systems (personal and professional)
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Impact of urbanization, globalization, environmental hazards, and climate change on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIA. ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS — Client/client system competence, self-determination, and self-monitoring techniques (e.g., financial decisions, treatment decisions, emancipation, age of consent, permanency planning)
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Principles and techniques of interviewing (e.g., supporting, clarifying, confronting, validating, feedback, reflecting, language differences, use of interpreters)
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of assessing risk of harm to self and others
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of involving clients/client systems in problem identification, problem solving, and intervention planning
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods, techniques, and instruments for assessing client/client system strengths, resources, needs, and challenges
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods for obtaining sensitive and/or confidential information (e.g., substance use, sexual abuse)
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods for assessing resilience and coping abilities
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Indicators of and methods of assessing motivation, barriers, and readiness for change
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of assessing clients’/client systems’ communication skills
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of incorporating information from records and evaluations (e.g., employment, medical, psychological, school)
    • IIB. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Components and function of the mental status examination
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Assessing the availability of and determining appropriate community resources
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Cultural considerations in the creation of an intervention plan
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Factors and processes used in goal planning, treatment planning, triage, and service plans
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Criteria used in the selection of intervention/treatment modalities (e.g., client/client system abilities, developmental level, culture, life stage)
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Use and side effects of common prescription, over-the-counter, and alternative medications
    • IIC. ASSESSMENT PRACTICES — Indicators of client/client system readiness for termination
  • III. INTERVENTION AND PRACTICE (32%) (32%)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Strengths-based and empowerment strategies and interventions
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Principles and techniques for building and maintaining a helping relationship (e.g., acceptance, empathy, rapport)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — The social worker’s role in the problem-solving process
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Interdisciplinary and intra-disciplinary team collaboration (e.g., co-therapy, care conference, IEP)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — End of life practice (e.g., continuity of care, hospice, palliative care, stages of death and dying)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Parenting capacities and skill building
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Policies, procedures, regulations, and legislation and their impact on social work practice and service delivery
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Permanency planning (e.g., child welfare)
    • IIIA. PRACTICE CONCEPTS — Community organizing, development, and mobilizing community participation
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Limit and boundary setting techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Verbal and nonverbal communication (e.g., body language, congruence, feedback)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods and approaches for providing trauma-informed care for various types of trauma (e.g., complex, vicarious)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Principles of active listening and observation
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Crisis intervention and treatment approaches
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Emotional regulation techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Approaches to and methods of advocacy for needed services and resources
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods of teaching coping and other self-care skills to clients
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Practice with clients experiencing loss, separation, and grief
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Methods for engaging and motivating voluntary and involuntary clients/client systems
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Case management techniques (e.g., case recording, documentation, case presentation)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Evidence-based practices (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness based stress reduction, motivational interviewing, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Stress management techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Harm reduction techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Contracting and goal-setting techniques (e.g., partializing, measurable objectives)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Problem-solving models and approaches
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Discharge, aftercare, wrap-around services, and follow-up
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Conflict resolution methods
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Establishing service networks or community resources
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Techniques and methods for addiction intervention
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Psychoeducation methods
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Anger management techniques
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Group work techniques and approaches (e.g., developing and managing group processes and cohesion)
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Family therapy models, interventions, and approaches
    • IIIB. INTERVENTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES — Social change and social planning methods
    • IIIC. PRACTICE. EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Techniques for evaluating progress and effectiveness of intervention, treatment, and service plans
    • IIIC. PRACTICE. EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Methods, techniques, and instruments used to evaluate social work practice
    • IIIC. PRACTICE. EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Methods of evaluating agency programs (e.g., needs assessment, formative/summative assessment, cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit analysis, outcomes assessment)
    • IIIC. PRACTICE. EVALUATION AND RESEARCH — Basic and applied research design and methods, data collection and analysis methods, and methods to assess reliability and validity in social work research (e.g., objective, subjective, qualitative, quantitative)
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Supervisee’s role in supervision (e.g., identifying learning needs, self-assessment, prioritizing)
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Methods for creating, implementing, and evaluating policies and procedures for safe, inclusive, and a healthy work environment
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Methods for creating, implementing, and evaluating policies and procedures that minimize risk for individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Supervision and consultation models and techniques (e.g., individual, peer, group, case recording)
    • IIID. SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION — Transference and countertransference within supervisory relationships
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