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Licensed Social Work Associate

Full New Hampshire social-work license. Conditional, temporary, provisional and candidate authorizations are recorded separately. The compact is enacted under RSA 330-A:18-e, but its administrator reports that multistate licenses are not yet being issued.

Licensing authority: New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice; Office of Professional Licensure and Certification · Application information

Approval of first candidate supervision agreement
Mental Health Jurisprudence Exam (practice unavailable)
Applicant
Postgraduate candidate for this social-work license; this pathway authorizes only supervised practice, not the full independent license.
Initial student transition
A student continuing at the internship site submits the agreement at least thirty days before the internship ends, the universal initial application and fee under Mhp 302.01(a); interim supervised practice is permitted under (b).
Standing order
The obtained Board standing order signed March 2, 2026 treats the first approved supervision agreement as a license subject to jurisprudence testing, whether or not a conditional-license application accompanies it. Subsequent agreements do not repeat this examination.
Supervision
Submit the Candidate for Licensure: Supervision Agreement before commencing supervised practice; Board approval, supervisor acceptance of legal/ethical responsibility and no independent/private practice under RSA 330-A:22.
Licensure by endorsement or reciprocity

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Examination timing
Current registered examination passages are requirements of the route even when previously passed; previous passing is an applicant condition rather than removal of a currently offered examination.
Existing license
Active, non-temporary, unencumbered license in good standing from a jurisdiction whose requirements are substantially similar, with primary-source verification and any required foreign-credential evaluation. No other jurisdiction is investigated by this survey.
Implementation scope
RSA 310:17 applies to professionals generally, but Plc 313.02/Table 313-1 and Plc 313.37 currently list only clinical social worker among social-work licenses. The existing-license and equivalence conditions remain visible; the profession-specific initial examination rules and Mhp 311 identify the examinations involved.
Statutory basis
RSA 310:17 requires issuance notwithstanding other contrary state law, based on active good-standing licensure and substantially similar requirements; a required criminal-history check still applies.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Waiver
Plc 313.11 permits a petition under Plc 211 when current jurisdiction criteria are not met but education, training and actual licensed experience are offered as equivalent; approval remains discretionary.
Initial licensure associate degree

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Conflicting application instruction
The currently linked Social Work Associate application checklist, page 1, says: "All applicants must pass the ASWB Bachelors or Clinical Level Exam prior to submitting an application for licensure." This lower-ranked implementation instruction is retained for the applicant; the effective adopted rule identifies ASWB Associate as the requirement.
Continuing education during supervision
30 additional hours during supervised practice across all nine Mhp 308.01 areas: ethical behavior; human rights and social/racial/economic/environmental justice; anti-racism/diversity/equity/inclusion; research-informed practice; policy; engagement; assessment; intervention; evaluation.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Current exam rule
Adopted Document 14641, effective August 24, 2026, Mhp 308.04(a): "All applicants for licensure shall pass the ASWB associate level examination."
Degree
Associate degree in clinical mental health, social work, psychology, behavioral-health counseling, human services or equivalent from an accredited institution.
Education hours
300 hours of social-work or mental-health education and 300 hours of supervised practical training, within the degree-granting program or separately.
Experience
6,000 supervised hours in no fewer than three years; 150 hours of individual supervision, at least one hour weekly.
Ongoing supervision
RSA 330-A:18-c(III) requires clinical supervision throughout practice; supervising clinician signs clinical assessments and treatment plans.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
Supervisor is a licensed clinical social worker, mental-health counselor, MLADC, psychiatric APRN, or Board-approved mental-health provider including MFT or pastoral psychotherapist; licensed where supervision occurs. Physical or HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual presence is permitted. No coursework/practicum, impairing dual relationship or 1099 independent-contractor experience.
Initial licensure bachelors degree

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Conflicting application instruction
The currently linked Social Work Associate application checklist, page 1, says: "All applicants must pass the ASWB Bachelors or Clinical Level Exam prior to submitting an application for licensure." This lower-ranked implementation instruction is retained for the applicant; the effective adopted rule identifies ASWB Associate as the requirement.
Continuing education during supervision
30 additional hours during supervised practice across all nine Mhp 308.01 areas: ethical behavior; human rights and social/racial/economic/environmental justice; anti-racism/diversity/equity/inclusion; research-informed practice; policy; engagement; assessment; intervention; evaluation.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Current exam rule
Adopted Document 14641, effective August 24, 2026, Mhp 308.04(a): "All applicants for licensure shall pass the ASWB associate level examination."
Degree
Bachelors degree in clinical mental health, social work, psychology, behavioral-health counseling, human services or equivalent from an accredited institution.
Education hours
300 hours of social-work or mental-health education and 300 hours of supervised practical training, within the degree-granting program or separately.
Experience
4,000 post-bachelors supervised hours in no less than two and no more than four years; 100 hours of individual supervision, at least one hour weekly.
Ongoing supervision
RSA 330-A:18-c(III) requires clinical supervision throughout practice; supervising clinician signs clinical assessments and treatment plans.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
Supervisor is a licensed clinical social worker, mental-health counselor, MLADC, psychiatric APRN, or Board-approved mental-health provider including MFT or pastoral psychotherapist; licensed where supervision occurs. Physical or HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual presence is permitted. No coursework/practicum, impairing dual relationship or 1099 independent-contractor experience.
Reactivation from reserve military inactive status
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Prior status
License placed on inactive status after reserve military or national-guard activation; reactivate within one year after release.
Process
Submit the Request for License Reactivation. If the license term expired, pay renewal-related fees and demonstrate current continuing competence; if unexpired, no repeat examination is identified.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Reinstatement more than one year after expiration

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Conflicting application instruction
The currently linked Social Work Associate application checklist, page 1, says: "All applicants must pass the ASWB Bachelors or Clinical Level Exam prior to submitting an application for licensure." This lower-ranked implementation instruction is retained for the applicant; the effective adopted rule identifies ASWB Associate as the requirement.
Continuing education during supervision
30 additional hours during supervised practice across all nine Mhp 308.01 areas: ethical behavior; human rights and social/racial/economic/environmental justice; anti-racism/diversity/equity/inclusion; research-informed practice; policy; engagement; assessment; intervention; evaluation.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Current exam rule
Adopted Document 14641, effective August 24, 2026, Mhp 308.04(a): "All applicants for licensure shall pass the ASWB associate level examination."
Education hours
300 hours of social-work or mental-health education and 300 hours of supervised practical training, within the degree-granting program or separately.
Expired license
Expired more than one year; apply for initial licensure under Plc 304, attach the required Mhp 402 CE documentation and pay the fee.
Ongoing supervision
RSA 330-A:18-c(III) requires clinical supervision throughout practice; supervising clinician signs clinical assessments and treatment plans.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
Supervisor is a licensed clinical social worker, mental-health counselor, MLADC, psychiatric APRN, or Board-approved mental-health provider including MFT or pastoral psychotherapist; licensed where supervision occurs. Physical or HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual presence is permitted. No coursework/practicum, impairing dual relationship or 1099 independent-contractor experience.
Reinstatement not more than one year after expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Collaboration
Document applicable Mhp 403 collaboration hours.
Continuing education
Ten hours biennially: at least six Category A, three ethics, three suicide prevention, and no more than four Category B.
Expiration
License expired not more than one year before application; do not practice until reinstated.
Process
Use Plc 308 renewal process and pay the fee; satisfy continuing competence and retain or re-obtain any required certifications or credentials.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Initial licensure after revocation

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Conflicting application instruction
The currently linked Social Work Associate application checklist, page 1, says: "All applicants must pass the ASWB Bachelors or Clinical Level Exam prior to submitting an application for licensure." This lower-ranked implementation instruction is retained for the applicant; the effective adopted rule identifies ASWB Associate as the requirement.
Continuing education during supervision
30 additional hours during supervised practice across all nine Mhp 308.01 areas: ethical behavior; human rights and social/racial/economic/environmental justice; anti-racism/diversity/equity/inclusion; research-informed practice; policy; engagement; assessment; intervention; evaluation.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Current exam rule
Adopted Document 14641, effective August 24, 2026, Mhp 308.04(a): "All applicants for licensure shall pass the ASWB associate level examination."
Education hours
300 hours of social-work or mental-health education and 300 hours of supervised practical training, within the degree-granting program or separately.
Ongoing supervision
RSA 330-A:18-c(III) requires clinical supervision throughout practice; supervising clinician signs clinical assessments and treatment plans.
Revocation
Apply for initial licensure under Plc 304; satisfy all revocation-order conditions, waiting periods, outstanding penalties and assessed costs, continuing competence, required credentials and criminal-history check.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
Supervisor is a licensed clinical social worker, mental-health counselor, MLADC, psychiatric APRN, or Board-approved mental-health provider including MFT or pastoral psychotherapist; licensed where supervision occurs. Physical or HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual presence is permitted. No coursework/practicum, impairing dual relationship or 1099 independent-contractor experience.
Renewal of unexpired license
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Collaboration
40 hours every two years under Mhp 403; document hours.
Continuing education
Ten hours biennially: at least six Category A, three ethics, three suicide prevention, and no more than four Category B.
Eligibility
Unexpired license; timely universal renewal application, signed CE/collaboration report, applicable fee and current qualifications under Mhp 401.02.
Survey
Complete the required workforce survey or use its opt-out process.
Waiver
Good cause CE waiver under Mhp 402.05 is discretionary and requires a Board-approved completion schedule of at most one additional year.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Initial licensure after late suspension restoration request

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Conflicting application instruction
The currently linked Social Work Associate application checklist, page 1, says: "All applicants must pass the ASWB Bachelors or Clinical Level Exam prior to submitting an application for licensure." This lower-ranked implementation instruction is retained for the applicant; the effective adopted rule identifies ASWB Associate as the requirement.
Continuing education during supervision
30 additional hours during supervised practice across all nine Mhp 308.01 areas: ethical behavior; human rights and social/racial/economic/environmental justice; anti-racism/diversity/equity/inclusion; research-informed practice; policy; engagement; assessment; intervention; evaluation.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Current exam rule
Adopted Document 14641, effective August 24, 2026, Mhp 308.04(a): "All applicants for licensure shall pass the ASWB associate level examination."
Education hours
300 hours of social-work or mental-health education and 300 hours of supervised practical training, within the degree-granting program or separately.
Ongoing supervision
RSA 330-A:18-c(III) requires clinical supervision throughout practice; supervising clinician signs clinical assessments and treatment plans.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
Supervisor is a licensed clinical social worker, mental-health counselor, MLADC, psychiatric APRN, or Board-approved mental-health provider including MFT or pastoral psychotherapist; licensed where supervision occurs. Physical or HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual presence is permitted. No coursework/practicum, impairing dual relationship or 1099 independent-contractor experience.
Suspension
Restoration not requested within the applicable Plc 312.04(a) period; apply for initial licensure under Plc 304 and demonstrate satisfaction of the suspension order.
Restoration after suspension within one year of expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Process
Apply for reinstatement under Plc 312.02; pay reinstatement fees and all penalties/costs, satisfy suspension-order conditions and continuing competence.
Timing
Within thirty days of the end of suspension and within one year after license expiration.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Restoration after suspension before license expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Fees
No additional application or restoration fee for this timely unexpired restoration.
Order conditions
Demonstrate all suspension-order and correction-plan conditions, continuing competence and payment of imposed penalties. An order may impose individual conditions, which are not a new named examination under the general rule.
Timing
Request restoration within thirty days of the end of suspension while the license remains unexpired.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW)

Full New Hampshire social-work license. Conditional, temporary, provisional and candidate authorizations are recorded separately. The compact is enacted under RSA 330-A:18-e, but its administrator reports that multistate licenses are not yet being issued.

Licensing authority: New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice; Office of Professional Licensure and Certification · Application information

Approval of first candidate supervision agreement
Mental Health Jurisprudence Exam (practice unavailable)
Applicant
Postgraduate candidate for this social-work license; this pathway authorizes only supervised practice, not the full independent license.
Initial student transition
A student continuing at the internship site submits the agreement at least thirty days before the internship ends, the universal initial application and fee under Mhp 302.01(a); interim supervised practice is permitted under (b).
Standing order
The obtained Board standing order signed March 2, 2026 treats the first approved supervision agreement as a license subject to jurisprudence testing, whether or not a conditional-license application accompanies it. Subsequent agreements do not repeat this examination.
Supervision
Submit the Candidate for Licensure: Supervision Agreement before commencing supervised practice; Board approval, supervisor acceptance of legal/ethical responsibility and no independent/private practice under RSA 330-A:22.
Licensure by endorsement or reciprocity

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Examination timing
Current registered examination passages are requirements of the route even when previously passed; previous passing is an applicant condition rather than removal of a currently offered examination.
Existing license
Active, non-temporary, unencumbered license in good standing from a jurisdiction whose requirements are substantially similar, with primary-source verification and any required foreign-credential evaluation. No other jurisdiction is investigated by this survey.
Statutory basis
RSA 310:17 requires issuance notwithstanding other contrary state law, based on active good-standing licensure and substantially similar requirements; a required criminal-history check still applies.
Substantially similar criteria
Plc 313.37(b): recognized MSW; a nationally recognized clinical-category examination; at least 2,500 hours or two full-time years of supervised postgraduate clinical practice. Mhp 302.06 directs qualifying endorsement applicants to the Mhp 302.05 initial process.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Waiver
Plc 313.11 permits a petition under Plc 211 when current jurisdiction criteria are not met but education, training and actual licensed experience are offered as equivalent; approval remains discretionary.
Initial licensure by examination

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
Undergraduate degree and two-year clinical MSW or doctorate from a CSWE-approved school; the graduate program must cover at least five Mhp 304.01(b) areas.
Exam eligibility
Mhp 304.03(d): complete at least 18 months under Board-approved supervision before taking ASWB Clinical; arrange direct score transmission to OPLC.
Experience
At least 3,000 post-masters supervised clinical work hours in two years; each 1,500-hour year is completed in 12–24 months, and all supervision is completed within two–four years after approved supervision begins.
Individual supervision
At least one hour per week of face-to-face individual supervision, totaling 100 hours; HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual supervision is allowed.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
Supervisor must meet Board requirements and be licensed where supervision occurs; no pre-degree hours, independent private practice, 1099 contractor relationship, disqualifying family relationship or impairing dual relationship.
Initial licensure with mladc experience substitution

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
Undergraduate degree and two-year clinical MSW or doctorate from a CSWE-approved school; the graduate program must cover at least five Mhp 304.01(b) areas.
Exam eligibility
Mhp 304.03(d): complete at least 18 months under Board-approved supervision before taking ASWB Clinical; arrange direct score transmission to OPLC.
Experience
At least 3,000 post-masters supervised clinical work hours in two years; each 1,500-hour year is completed in 12–24 months, and all supervision is completed within two–four years after approved supervision begins.
Individual supervision
At least one hour per week of face-to-face individual supervision, totaling 100 hours; HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual supervision is allowed.
Mladc substitution
A current NH MLADC license may substitute up to 1,500 work-experience hours and up to 50 percent of individual supervision. Board denial of the full work-hour substitution requires its rationale; supervisor holding MLADC alone cannot justify denial.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
Supervisor must meet Board requirements and be licensed where supervision occurs; no pre-degree hours, independent private practice, 1099 contractor relationship, disqualifying family relationship or impairing dual relationship.
Issuance based on july 1998 certification
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Board blanket instructions
Mhp 304.03(a) says "All applicants for licensure shall pass the clinical level exam distributed by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) and request the examination results to be sent directly to the OPLC." Mhp 311.01(a) says "Each applicant for initial licensure shall be examined on the contents of RSA 330-A and Mental Health Practice, Mhp 100 through Mhp 500." RSA 330-A:33 specifically directs issuance from the July 1, 1998 certification; these generic demands are retained as lower-ranked conditions.
Prior certification
Certified as a clinical social worker on July 1, 1998 under former RSA 330-A; RSA 330-A:33 directs issuance in that discipline.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 1998-10-31.

Reactivation from reserve military inactive status
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Prior status
License placed on inactive status after reserve military or national-guard activation; reactivate within one year after release.
Process
Submit the Request for License Reactivation. If the license term expired, pay renewal-related fees and demonstrate current continuing competence; if unexpired, no repeat examination is identified.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Reinstatement more than one year after expiration

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
Undergraduate degree and two-year clinical MSW or doctorate from a CSWE-approved school; the graduate program must cover at least five Mhp 304.01(b) areas.
Exam eligibility
Mhp 304.03(d): complete at least 18 months under Board-approved supervision before taking ASWB Clinical; arrange direct score transmission to OPLC.
Experience
At least 3,000 post-masters supervised clinical work hours in two years; each 1,500-hour year is completed in 12–24 months, and all supervision is completed within two–four years after approved supervision begins.
Expired license
Expired more than one year; apply for initial licensure under Plc 304, attach the required Mhp 402 CE documentation and pay the fee.
Individual supervision
At least one hour per week of face-to-face individual supervision, totaling 100 hours; HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual supervision is allowed.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
Supervisor must meet Board requirements and be licensed where supervision occurs; no pre-degree hours, independent private practice, 1099 contractor relationship, disqualifying family relationship or impairing dual relationship.
Reinstatement not more than one year after expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Collaboration
Document applicable Mhp 403 collaboration hours.
Continuing education
40 hours biennially: at least 30 Category A, six ethics, three suicide prevention, and no more than ten Category B; Board-approved supervisors include six supervision hours.
Expiration
License expired not more than one year before application; do not practice until reinstated.
Process
Use Plc 308 renewal process and pay the fee; satisfy continuing competence and retain or re-obtain any required certifications or credentials.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Initial licensure after revocation

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
Undergraduate degree and two-year clinical MSW or doctorate from a CSWE-approved school; the graduate program must cover at least five Mhp 304.01(b) areas.
Exam eligibility
Mhp 304.03(d): complete at least 18 months under Board-approved supervision before taking ASWB Clinical; arrange direct score transmission to OPLC.
Experience
At least 3,000 post-masters supervised clinical work hours in two years; each 1,500-hour year is completed in 12–24 months, and all supervision is completed within two–four years after approved supervision begins.
Individual supervision
At least one hour per week of face-to-face individual supervision, totaling 100 hours; HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual supervision is allowed.
Revocation
Apply for initial licensure under Plc 304; satisfy all revocation-order conditions, waiting periods, outstanding penalties and assessed costs, continuing competence, required credentials and criminal-history check.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
Supervisor must meet Board requirements and be licensed where supervision occurs; no pre-degree hours, independent private practice, 1099 contractor relationship, disqualifying family relationship or impairing dual relationship.
Renewal of unexpired license
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Collaboration
40 hours every two years under Mhp 403; document hours.
Continuing education
40 hours biennially: at least 30 Category A, six ethics, three suicide prevention, and no more than ten Category B; Board-approved supervisors include six supervision hours.
Eligibility
Unexpired license; timely universal renewal application, signed CE/collaboration report, applicable fee and current qualifications under Mhp 401.02.
Survey
Complete the required workforce survey or use its opt-out process.
Waiver
Good cause CE waiver under Mhp 402.05 is discretionary and requires a Board-approved completion schedule of at most one additional year.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Initial licensure after late suspension restoration request

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
Undergraduate degree and two-year clinical MSW or doctorate from a CSWE-approved school; the graduate program must cover at least five Mhp 304.01(b) areas.
Exam eligibility
Mhp 304.03(d): complete at least 18 months under Board-approved supervision before taking ASWB Clinical; arrange direct score transmission to OPLC.
Experience
At least 3,000 post-masters supervised clinical work hours in two years; each 1,500-hour year is completed in 12–24 months, and all supervision is completed within two–four years after approved supervision begins.
Individual supervision
At least one hour per week of face-to-face individual supervision, totaling 100 hours; HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual supervision is allowed.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
Supervisor must meet Board requirements and be licensed where supervision occurs; no pre-degree hours, independent private practice, 1099 contractor relationship, disqualifying family relationship or impairing dual relationship.
Suspension
Restoration not requested within the applicable Plc 312.04(a) period; apply for initial licensure under Plc 304 and demonstrate satisfaction of the suspension order.
Restoration after suspension within one year of expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Process
Apply for reinstatement under Plc 312.02; pay reinstatement fees and all penalties/costs, satisfy suspension-order conditions and continuing competence.
Timing
Within thirty days of the end of suspension and within one year after license expiration.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Restoration after suspension before license expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Fees
No additional application or restoration fee for this timely unexpired restoration.
Order conditions
Demonstrate all suspension-order and correction-plan conditions, continuing competence and payment of imposed penalties. An order may impose individual conditions, which are not a new named examination under the general rule.
Timing
Request restoration within thirty days of the end of suspension while the license remains unexpired.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Provisional Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker License — Endorsement

License issued to an otherwise qualified endorsement applicant while the mandatory criminal-background results are pending.

Licensing authority: New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice; Office of Professional Licensure and Certification · Application information

Provisional licensure pending endorsement background check

All of the following:

Eligibility
Otherwise qualified LICSW endorsement applicant, with criminal-background results still pending; all endorsement criteria apply.
Jurisprudence
Mhp 302.06 directs endorsement applicants to Mhp 302.05, including its jurisprudence documentation.
National prior pass
The clinical-category passing examination used for endorsement is currently offered; prior completion stays a condition, and the registered current ASWB Clinical version remains a leaf.
Pending results
Plc 313.06(c)-(d) requires provisional issuance; regular license follows if results show no denial grounds, otherwise notice and Board review.

School Social Worker

Full New Hampshire social-work license. Conditional, temporary, provisional and candidate authorizations are recorded separately. The compact is enacted under RSA 330-A:18-e, but its administrator reports that multistate licenses are not yet being issued.

Licensing authority: New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice; Office of Professional Licensure and Certification · Application information

Approval of first candidate supervision agreement
Mental Health Jurisprudence Exam (practice unavailable)
Applicant
Postgraduate candidate for this social-work license; this pathway authorizes only supervised practice, not the full independent license.
Initial student transition
A student continuing at the internship site submits the agreement at least thirty days before the internship ends, the universal initial application and fee under Mhp 302.01(a); interim supervised practice is permitted under (b).
Standing order
The obtained Board standing order signed March 2, 2026 treats the first approved supervision agreement as a license subject to jurisprudence testing, whether or not a conditional-license application accompanies it. Subsequent agreements do not repeat this examination.
Supervision
Submit the Candidate for Licensure: Supervision Agreement before commencing supervised practice; Board approval, supervisor acceptance of legal/ethical responsibility and no independent/private practice under RSA 330-A:22.
Licensure by endorsement or reciprocity

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Examination timing
Current registered examination passages are requirements of the route even when previously passed; previous passing is an applicant condition rather than removal of a currently offered examination.
Existing license
Active, non-temporary, unencumbered license in good standing from a jurisdiction whose requirements are substantially similar, with primary-source verification and any required foreign-credential evaluation. No other jurisdiction is investigated by this survey.
Implementation scope
RSA 310:17 applies to professionals generally, but Plc 313.02/Table 313-1 and Plc 313.37 currently list only clinical social worker among social-work licenses. The existing-license and equivalence conditions remain visible; the profession-specific initial examination rules and Mhp 311 identify the examinations involved.
Statutory basis
RSA 310:17 requires issuance notwithstanding other contrary state law, based on active good-standing licensure and substantially similar requirements; a required criminal-history check still applies.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Waiver
Plc 313.11 permits a petition under Plc 211 when current jurisdiction criteria are not met but education, training and actual licensed experience are offered as equivalent; approval remains discretionary.
Issuance based on preexisting school social worker certification
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Board blanket instructions
The current School Social Worker checklist says "All applicants must pass the ASWB Clinical Level Exam prior to submitting an application for licensure." Mhp 311.01(a) says "Each applicant for initial licensure shall be examined on the contents of RSA 330-A and Mental Health Practice, Mhp 100 through Mhp 500." The statute grants this specific certification pathway without the alternative examination qualifications in I(b); blanket implementation demands remain conditions.
Certification
Currently certified as a school social worker by the NH Department of Education and was certified on March 9, 2020. Notify OPLC in writing of intent to obtain licensure; the statute requires issuance within ten days.
Initial fee period
The initial-period fee exemption and certification-linked initial term are specified in RSA 330-A:18-a(III). Subsequent renewal uses current Board rules.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-09-13.

Initial licensure by examination

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
Undergraduate degree and two-year MSW or doctorate from a CSWE-approved school.
Experience
At least two years and 3,000 hours of post-masters supervised school-social-work experience with a Board-approved school-social-worker or mental-health-counselor supervisor, or another supervisor allowed under Board rules.
National exam identification
RSA 330-A:18-a(I)(b)(4) requires a Board-approved national proctored examination. The current School Social Worker application checklist explicitly identifies ASWB Clinical and requires proof of passing before application.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Reactivation from reserve military inactive status
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Prior status
License placed on inactive status after reserve military or national-guard activation; reactivate within one year after release.
Process
Submit the Request for License Reactivation. If the license term expired, pay renewal-related fees and demonstrate current continuing competence; if unexpired, no repeat examination is identified.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Reinstatement more than one year after expiration

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
Undergraduate degree and two-year MSW or doctorate from a CSWE-approved school.
Experience
At least two years and 3,000 hours of post-masters supervised school-social-work experience with a Board-approved school-social-worker or mental-health-counselor supervisor, or another supervisor allowed under Board rules.
Expired license
Expired more than one year; apply for initial licensure under Plc 304, attach the required Mhp 402 CE documentation and pay the fee.
National exam identification
RSA 330-A:18-a(I)(b)(4) requires a Board-approved national proctored examination. The current School Social Worker application checklist explicitly identifies ASWB Clinical and requires proof of passing before application.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Reinstatement not more than one year after expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Collaboration
Document applicable Mhp 403 collaboration hours.
Continuing education
40 hours biennially: at least 30 Category A, six ethics, three suicide prevention, and no more than ten Category B; Board-approved supervisors include six supervision hours.
Expiration
License expired not more than one year before application; do not practice until reinstated.
Process
Use Plc 308 renewal process and pay the fee; satisfy continuing competence and retain or re-obtain any required certifications or credentials.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Initial licensure after revocation

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
Undergraduate degree and two-year MSW or doctorate from a CSWE-approved school.
Experience
At least two years and 3,000 hours of post-masters supervised school-social-work experience with a Board-approved school-social-worker or mental-health-counselor supervisor, or another supervisor allowed under Board rules.
National exam identification
RSA 330-A:18-a(I)(b)(4) requires a Board-approved national proctored examination. The current School Social Worker application checklist explicitly identifies ASWB Clinical and requires proof of passing before application.
Revocation
Apply for initial licensure under Plc 304; satisfy all revocation-order conditions, waiting periods, outstanding penalties and assessed costs, continuing competence, required credentials and criminal-history check.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Renewal of unexpired license
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Collaboration
40 hours every two years under Mhp 403; document hours.
Continuing education
40 hours biennially: at least 30 Category A, six ethics, three suicide prevention, and no more than ten Category B; Board-approved supervisors include six supervision hours.
Eligibility
Unexpired license; timely universal renewal application, signed CE/collaboration report, applicable fee and current qualifications under Mhp 401.02.
Survey
Complete the required workforce survey or use its opt-out process.
Waiver
Good cause CE waiver under Mhp 402.05 is discretionary and requires a Board-approved completion schedule of at most one additional year.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Initial licensure after late suspension restoration request

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
Undergraduate degree and two-year MSW or doctorate from a CSWE-approved school.
Experience
At least two years and 3,000 hours of post-masters supervised school-social-work experience with a Board-approved school-social-worker or mental-health-counselor supervisor, or another supervisor allowed under Board rules.
National exam identification
RSA 330-A:18-a(I)(b)(4) requires a Board-approved national proctored examination. The current School Social Worker application checklist explicitly identifies ASWB Clinical and requires proof of passing before application.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Suspension
Restoration not requested within the applicable Plc 312.04(a) period; apply for initial licensure under Plc 304 and demonstrate satisfaction of the suspension order.
Restoration after suspension within one year of expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Process
Apply for reinstatement under Plc 312.02; pay reinstatement fees and all penalties/costs, satisfy suspension-order conditions and continuing competence.
Timing
Within thirty days of the end of suspension and within one year after license expiration.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Restoration after suspension before license expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Fees
No additional application or restoration fee for this timely unexpired restoration.
Order conditions
Demonstrate all suspension-order and correction-plan conditions, continuing competence and payment of imposed penalties. An order may impose individual conditions, which are not a new named examination under the general rule.
Timing
Request restoration within thirty days of the end of suspension while the license remains unexpired.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Licensed Social Worker

Full New Hampshire social-work license. Conditional, temporary, provisional and candidate authorizations are recorded separately. The compact is enacted under RSA 330-A:18-e, but its administrator reports that multistate licenses are not yet being issued.

Licensing authority: New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice; Office of Professional Licensure and Certification · Application information

Approval of first candidate supervision agreement
Mental Health Jurisprudence Exam (practice unavailable)
Applicant
Postgraduate candidate for this social-work license; this pathway authorizes only supervised practice, not the full independent license.
Initial student transition
A student continuing at the internship site submits the agreement at least thirty days before the internship ends, the universal initial application and fee under Mhp 302.01(a); interim supervised practice is permitted under (b).
Standing order
The obtained Board standing order signed March 2, 2026 treats the first approved supervision agreement as a license subject to jurisprudence testing, whether or not a conditional-license application accompanies it. Subsequent agreements do not repeat this examination.
Supervision
Submit the Candidate for Licensure: Supervision Agreement before commencing supervised practice; Board approval, supervisor acceptance of legal/ethical responsibility and no independent/private practice under RSA 330-A:22.
Licensure by endorsement or reciprocity

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Examination timing
Current registered examination passages are requirements of the route even when previously passed; previous passing is an applicant condition rather than removal of a currently offered examination.
Existing license
Active, non-temporary, unencumbered license in good standing from a jurisdiction whose requirements are substantially similar, with primary-source verification and any required foreign-credential evaluation. No other jurisdiction is investigated by this survey.
Implementation scope
RSA 310:17 applies to professionals generally, but Plc 313.02/Table 313-1 and Plc 313.37 currently list only clinical social worker among social-work licenses. The existing-license and equivalence conditions remain visible; the profession-specific initial examination rules and Mhp 311 identify the examinations involved.
Statutory basis
RSA 310:17 requires issuance notwithstanding other contrary state law, based on active good-standing licensure and substantially similar requirements; a required criminal-history check still applies.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Waiver
Plc 313.11 permits a petition under Plc 211 when current jurisdiction criteria are not met but education, training and actual licensed experience are offered as equivalent; approval remains discretionary.
Initial licensure by examination

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Conflicting application instruction
The currently linked Social Worker checklist, page 1, states: "All applicants must pass the ASWB Clinical Level Exam prior to submitting an application for licensure." Mhp 307.03(a), the controlling rule, states: "All applicants for licensure shall pass the ASWB bachelors level examination." The lower-ranked Clinical demand is a condition; the rule identifies the Bachelors requirement.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
CSWE-approved BSW; 300 hours of social-work or mental-health education and 300 hours of supervised practical training within the degree or separately.
Experience
4,000 supervised work hours in two–four years, including at least two years of post-bachelors work in a mental-health or social-service setting.
Individual supervision
At least one hour per week of individual face-to-face supervision, totaling 100 hours; physical or HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual presence.
Postlicensure supervision
During the first two years of full licensure, practice only under the clinicians specified in RSA 330-A:18-b(III); supervisor signs clinical assessments and treatment plans.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
A licensed clinical social worker, MFT, mental-health counselor or pastoral psychotherapist licensed where supervision occurs; no coursework/practicum hours, impairing dual relationships or 1099 independent private practice.
Reactivation from reserve military inactive status
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Prior status
License placed on inactive status after reserve military or national-guard activation; reactivate within one year after release.
Process
Submit the Request for License Reactivation. If the license term expired, pay renewal-related fees and demonstrate current continuing competence; if unexpired, no repeat examination is identified.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Reinstatement more than one year after expiration

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Conflicting application instruction
The currently linked Social Worker checklist, page 1, states: "All applicants must pass the ASWB Clinical Level Exam prior to submitting an application for licensure." Mhp 307.03(a), the controlling rule, states: "All applicants for licensure shall pass the ASWB bachelors level examination." The lower-ranked Clinical demand is a condition; the rule identifies the Bachelors requirement.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
CSWE-approved BSW; 300 hours of social-work or mental-health education and 300 hours of supervised practical training within the degree or separately.
Experience
4,000 supervised work hours in two–four years, including at least two years of post-bachelors work in a mental-health or social-service setting.
Expired license
Expired more than one year; apply for initial licensure under Plc 304, attach the required Mhp 402 CE documentation and pay the fee.
Individual supervision
At least one hour per week of individual face-to-face supervision, totaling 100 hours; physical or HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual presence.
Postlicensure supervision
During the first two years of full licensure, practice only under the clinicians specified in RSA 330-A:18-b(III); supervisor signs clinical assessments and treatment plans.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
A licensed clinical social worker, MFT, mental-health counselor or pastoral psychotherapist licensed where supervision occurs; no coursework/practicum hours, impairing dual relationships or 1099 independent private practice.
Reinstatement not more than one year after expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Collaboration
Document applicable Mhp 403 collaboration hours.
Continuing education
30 hours biennially: at least 24 Category A, three ethics, three suicide prevention, and no more than six Category B.
Expiration
License expired not more than one year before application; do not practice until reinstated.
Process
Use Plc 308 renewal process and pay the fee; satisfy continuing competence and retain or re-obtain any required certifications or credentials.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Initial licensure after revocation

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Conflicting application instruction
The currently linked Social Worker checklist, page 1, states: "All applicants must pass the ASWB Clinical Level Exam prior to submitting an application for licensure." Mhp 307.03(a), the controlling rule, states: "All applicants for licensure shall pass the ASWB bachelors level examination." The lower-ranked Clinical demand is a condition; the rule identifies the Bachelors requirement.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
CSWE-approved BSW; 300 hours of social-work or mental-health education and 300 hours of supervised practical training within the degree or separately.
Experience
4,000 supervised work hours in two–four years, including at least two years of post-bachelors work in a mental-health or social-service setting.
Individual supervision
At least one hour per week of individual face-to-face supervision, totaling 100 hours; physical or HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual presence.
Postlicensure supervision
During the first two years of full licensure, practice only under the clinicians specified in RSA 330-A:18-b(III); supervisor signs clinical assessments and treatment plans.
Revocation
Apply for initial licensure under Plc 304; satisfy all revocation-order conditions, waiting periods, outstanding penalties and assessed costs, continuing competence, required credentials and criminal-history check.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
A licensed clinical social worker, MFT, mental-health counselor or pastoral psychotherapist licensed where supervision occurs; no coursework/practicum hours, impairing dual relationships or 1099 independent private practice.
Renewal of unexpired license
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Collaboration
40 hours every two years under Mhp 403; document hours.
Continuing education
30 hours biennially: at least 24 Category A, three ethics, three suicide prevention, and no more than six Category B.
Eligibility
Unexpired license; timely universal renewal application, signed CE/collaboration report, applicable fee and current qualifications under Mhp 401.02.
Survey
Complete the required workforce survey or use its opt-out process.
Waiver
Good cause CE waiver under Mhp 402.05 is discretionary and requires a Board-approved completion schedule of at most one additional year.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Initial licensure after late suspension restoration request

All of the following:

Application
Submit the universal initial application, profession addendum, official transcripts, required experience and supervisor confirmations, three distinct professional references including a supervisor, direct examination-score verification, and applicable fees under Mhp 302.05.
Character
Submit truthful applications and evidence of good professional character and reliability under Mhp 302.02; disclose required background and licensure history.
Conflicting application instruction
The currently linked Social Worker checklist, page 1, states: "All applicants must pass the ASWB Clinical Level Exam prior to submitting an application for licensure." Mhp 307.03(a), the controlling rule, states: "All applicants for licensure shall pass the ASWB bachelors level examination." The lower-ranked Clinical demand is a condition; the rule identifies the Bachelors requirement.
Criminal history
RSA 330-A:15-a, operative July 1, 2026: submit a criminal-history release and fingerprints; pay the records-check cost. After two invalid fingerprint attempts, OPLC may accept the specified police clearances.
Education
CSWE-approved BSW; 300 hours of social-work or mental-health education and 300 hours of supervised practical training within the degree or separately.
Experience
4,000 supervised work hours in two–four years, including at least two years of post-bachelors work in a mental-health or social-service setting.
Individual supervision
At least one hour per week of individual face-to-face supervision, totaling 100 hours; physical or HIPAA-compliant synchronous virtual presence.
Postlicensure supervision
During the first two years of full licensure, practice only under the clinicians specified in RSA 330-A:18-b(III); supervisor signs clinical assessments and treatment plans.
Supervision agreement
Board approval is required before supervised practice; the supervisor accepts professional, ethical and legal responsibility. Practice cannot be independent during candidacy.
Supervisor and setting
A licensed clinical social worker, MFT, mental-health counselor or pastoral psychotherapist licensed where supervision occurs; no coursework/practicum hours, impairing dual relationships or 1099 independent private practice.
Suspension
Restoration not requested within the applicable Plc 312.04(a) period; apply for initial licensure under Plc 304 and demonstrate satisfaction of the suspension order.
Restoration after suspension within one year of expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Process
Apply for reinstatement under Plc 312.02; pay reinstatement fees and all penalties/costs, satisfy suspension-order conditions and continuing competence.
Timing
Within thirty days of the end of suspension and within one year after license expiration.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Restoration after suspension before license expiration
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Fees
No additional application or restoration fee for this timely unexpired restoration.
Order conditions
Demonstrate all suspension-order and correction-plan conditions, continuing competence and payment of imposed penalties. An order may impose individual conditions, which are not a new named examination under the general rule.
Timing
Request restoration within thirty days of the end of suspension while the license remains unexpired.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2025-08-19.

Mental Health Jurisprudence Exam

Provider
Prov, Inc.
Format
Open-book question examination, taken individually without consulting others
Exam questions
35
Time limit
90 minutes
Passing score
75 percent
Examination outline
  • RSA Chapter 330-A Mental Health Practice
  • Chapter Mhp 100 Definitions, Organization and Public Information
  • Chapter Mhp 200 Practice and Procedure
  • Chapter Mhp 300 License and Registration Requirements, Applications and Fees
  • Chapter Mhp 400 License Renewal, Continuing Education, Collaboration and Reinstatement
  • Chapter Mhp 500 Ethical and Professional Standards, Responsibilities of Licensees
  • Chapter Plc 300 Licensure and Discipline of Regulated Professions
Examination sources

ASWB Associate 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 Associate exam shares the Bachelors exam questions and content outline but has a different passing score from the Bachelors exam
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 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
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