Certifications

Board certification at a high level of practice is essential to every healthcare profession—without it, it is impossible to establish the standards by which competent practitioners may be identified. The American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work, founded in 1987, offers certifications for advanced practice, all of which may be achieved by a process without multiple-choice testing but relying on evaluations by professional peers. Certifications are offered in the following categories of Clinical Social Work:

• Advanced generalist practice: the BCD
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• Practice with Children & Their Families
  (to visit intro/application page, click here)
• Practice in Clinical Supervision
  (to visit intro/application page, click here)
• Practice in Psychoanalysis
  (to visit intro/application page, click here)