Do all clinical social workers work in social service agencies?
Clinical social workers work in a variety of settings including, but not limited to: public schools, social service agencies, outpatient clinics, inpatient psychiatric units, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, college and university counseling centers and private practice. Many non-clinical social workers are employed by legislative bodies including government agencies and social policy institutes. [ Return To The Top ] • I thought only marriage and family therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists could practice psychotherapy. Many people don’t realize that social workers provide more psychotherapy than any other discipline in the United States. Social workers are educated and trained to work in a variety of settings and with diverse populations. Informed by a “Person-in-Environment” perspective, social workers seek to understand their clients within a broader social and cultural context. That means that social workers are experts at coordinating care for individuals and systems, abl
Clinical Social Workers also teach in Medical Schools and are Directors of Mental Health Clinics, Departments of Mental Health as well as Psychoanalytic Institutes and as researchers in mental illness.
During the 1980s the largest privately owned psychiatric clinic in the nation, Anderson & Anderson, APC was founded and owned by two Licensed Clinical Social Workers. George and Nancy Anderson own Anderson & Anderson which now provides Executive Coaching/Anger Management for "disruptive physicians".
