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Association of
Social Work Boards
Volume 19, no. 5
 September/October 2009
Association business
Treasurer, Social Worker Member, Public Member seats up for election at ASWB Annual Meeting. Delegates will also be choosing members of the next Nominating Committee. Read more.
                                                                                        
ASWB launches search for examination question writers. Item writers are being sought to join the North American network of social workers who are paid to write the licensing exam questions. Read more.
 
Regular features
Ohio adopts new rules on electronic practice. Missouri and Washington look at increasing licensure levels.  Regulatory Happenings.
 
Board shackles psychologist.  Counsel's Column.
 
Go ahead, click. Just promise us you'll read everything else, too.  Association Asides.
 

Regulation, testing and ASWB personalities in the news
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Amanda RandallIf they could see her now
She set aside dreams of being a Rockette (for the time being).
She spent time in prison (as an employee).
Now ASWB's incoming president is exactly Read more.




Is there a "there" there?
2009 marks ASWB's 30th year of helping boards. The challenges may be different now, but one thing's for sure - they never stop coming. Read more.

The world of social work regulation
ASWB, in cooperation with New Zealand's Deputy Registrar, has launched an international social work regulatory email group. Read more.
ASWB 2009 Annual Meeting of the Delegate Assembly
A day at the beach?  Don't count on it.
A packed agenda loaded with weighty decisions won't help your tanning prospects, but Clearwater Beach can still be a nice place. Even from a hotel window. Read more.
 
From CLEAR
There is no clear-cut, definitive way to identify moral turpitude across all professional disciplines. Thank goodness.
Speakers at the most recent CLEAR conference addressed the need for boards to carefully weigh multiple factors before deciding if an applicant has crossed a line. Read more.
ASWB Exam Program News
Another year, another batch of exhausted (but happy) volunteers
The ASWB Examination Committee held its last meeting of 2009 in October. No volunteers were harmed in the operation of this committee. Read more.
ASWB Examination committee
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