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School Social Worker

Social Worker · School · taxonomy 1041S0200X

6,466
Registered nationally
0.32%
Share of this field
51
States with providers

What this licence covers

Clinical social workers (LCSW, LICSW and equivalents) hold a master’s degree in social work plus supervised clinical hours. They are the largest single group of licensed psychotherapy providers in the United States. Training emphasises the person in their environment, so alongside therapy they often help with practical systems — benefits, housing, school and medical coordination.

Practising in or around school settings. School-based providers usually serve enrolled students rather than taking outside clients.

The formal definition

Definition to come...

Source: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set. This is the definition used for billing and registration, which is why it reads the way it does.

Many also hold another licence

different training route, same person

These are registrations where the same person also holds a licence of a genuinely different kind — not the same qualification recorded twice. It is worth knowing because it widens what someone can work with: a counsellor who is also a social worker brings a different second toolkit than one who is also a behaviour analyst.

Counselor
881
13.6%
Psychologist
77
1.2%
Marriage & Family Therapist
63
1.0%
Behavior Analyst
55
0.9%
Occupational Therapist
5
0.1%
Physical Therapist
2
0.0%

Counted from every taxonomy code on a registration, not just the primary one. A provider can appear under more than one row.

By state

1,203
18.6%
817
12.6%
579
9.0%
549
8.5%
345
5.3%
238
3.7%
225
3.5%
208
3.2%
205
3.2%
201
3.1%
184
2.8%
169
2.6%
113
1.7%
110
1.7%
77
1.2%
74
1.1%
71
1.1%
69
1.1%
69
1.1%
64
1.0%
58
0.9%
52
0.8%
51
0.8%
48
0.7%

Related licence types

also under Social Worker
Licence typeRegistered
Clinical Social Worker 314,582
Social Worker 139,507