Power to Practitioners

“The NYSSCSW has always recognized clinical social work as one of the traditional mental health professions, i.e. psychiatry, psychology and psychiatric nursing. [There] is a longstanding tension between generic social work and what was formerly known as psychiatric social work. The general social work community is most often agency-based and has long been uncomfortable with private practice as a legitimate social work setting providing psychotherapy services…”

—Marsha Wineburgh, DSW, LCSW-R, Legislative Chair of NYSSCSW

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