Currently, for a social worker to qualify as a qualified advanced macro supervisor, qualified baccalaureate supervisor, or qualified clinical supervisor, the social worker must have practiced in the field he or she will be supervising for at least five uninterrupted years. This act modifies this requirement so that these supervisors must have practiced in the field of social work as a licensed social worker and so their five years of practice may have been interrupted.

Currently, if supervised, a practitioner of master social work may engage in practices reserved to clinical social workers or advanced macro social workers. This act limits this practice to no more than four years for the purpose of obtaining a license as a clinical social worker or an advanced macro social worker.

EMILY KALMER