DEGREED AND NONDEGREED LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL-WORKERS - AN EXPLORATORY-STUDY

This exploratory study focuses on 155 randomly selected respondents wh o obtained a clinical license in social work with or without the Maste r of Social Work (MSW) degree. Ninety-seven of the respondents obtaine d a license with an MSW degree; fifty-eight obtained a license without the MSW degree. The two groups of respondents completed a survey inst rument that explored their basic demographic characteristics, their at titudes and behaviors related to practice, and their philosophical and political attitudes toward practice. The researchers found few statis tically significant differences between the two groups of respondents. The article offers implications of these findings for the profession of social work.