Clinical Social Work with Uniformed Service Members, Veterans, and Their FamiliesThis specialty certification is designed to publicly recognize clinical social workers for their proficiency in Clinical Social Work with Uniformed Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families. The ABCSW promotes this certification through social media and other channels, and supports this credential and practice through its online resources. The fee for applying for this certification is $275 and the exam fee, paid to The Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences (AATBS) is $200. Description: Description. Clinical social work with uniformed service members, veterans, and their families involves clinical social work practice, supervision, consultation, education, or research relevant to the delivery of clinical social work services to service members, veterans, and their families. Clinical social workers use a person-in-environment perspective to enhance the social, psychosocial, or bio-psychosocial functioning of those who are served, and involves specialized clinical knowledge and advanced clinical skills in assessment; diagnosis; treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, conditions and addictions, including severe mental illness and serious emotional disturbances; consultation; and evaluation of services. Services may be provided across a variety of setting and locations (e.g., uniformed service, government service, private practice, community mental health, and so forth), are offered by a diverse array of providers (e.g., active duty, civil service, private practitioners, employed clinicians, and so forth), and include the full array of clinical social work services dedicated to improving the well-being and biopsychosocial functioning of service members, veterans, and their families as they encounter the unique challenges experienced in their lives. Specific Criteria:
This certification is available online for those who are Board Certified Diplomates in Clinical Social Work (BCD). AATBS also offers test prep material at a cost of $150 found here. Unsuccessful applicants who wish to reapply should promptly inform the ABCSW in writing of their intention to reapply and retake the specialty assessment after the wait period defined by AATBS. The $200 assessment fee may still apply. RecertificationThis certification must be renewed annually based on the following criteria:
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