STATE BOARD OF SOCIAL WORK EXAMINERS LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 44G Page 7 of 60 Last Revision Date: 4/15/2024
3.
"Social work consultation," defined as discussion and evaluation focusing on data, goals
and objectives, including intervention with individuals, agencies, businesses,
organizations, groups and communities for purposes of problem solving;
4.
"Social work planning," defined as specifying future objectives, evaluating the means for
achieving them, including identifying appropriate resources, and making deliberate
choices about appropriate courses of action in order to enhance social well-being;
5.
"Social work community organization," defined as the process of social interaction and the
method of social work concerned with meeting broad needs and bringing about and
maintaining adjustment between needs and resources in a community or other areas;
helping people to deal more effectively with their problems and objectives by helping them
develop, strengthen and maintain qualities of participation, self-direction and cooperation;
and bringing about changes in community and group relationships and in the distribution
of decision-making power. The community which is the primary client may be an
organization, neighborhood, city, county, state or national entity;
6.
"Social work policy," defined as the practice concerned primarily with translating laws,
technical knowledge and administrative rulings into organizational goals and operational
policies to guide organizational behavior; designing organizational structure and
procedures or processes through which social work goals can be achieved; securing
resources in the form of material, staff and clients; and obtaining the public support
necessary for attaining social work goals;
7.
"Social work administration," defined as applying specialized social work knowledge, skills
and techniques to the coordinated totality of activities in a social welfare organization in
order to transform policies into services; also, a method of practice by which the social
worker plans, assigns, coordinates, evaluates and mediates the interdependent tasks,
functions, personnel, and activities that are called upon to achieve the mission of the
organization;
8.
"Social work research," defined as the formal organization and the methodology of data
collection and the analysis and evaluation of data; and
9.
"Social work client-centered advocacy," defined as the service in which the social worker
functions on behalf of individual clients, support/psycho-educational groups, or other
entities including, but not limited to, social work and governmental agencies, and specific
issues related to those organizations. The purpose of client-centered advocacy is to bring
about or influence change to improve the quality of life, enhance empowerment, and
assure the basic rights of the entity or individual being served by the social worker.
13:44G-1.3 PERSONS REQUIRING LICENSURE; PERSONS REQUIRING
CERTIFICATION
Unless exempted from licensure or certification pursuant to N.J.S.A. 45:15BB-5, a person
whose activities are within the scope of practice of N.J.A.C. 13:44G-3.1 is required to be
licensed as a clinical social worker; a person whose activities are within the scope of practice of
N.J.A.C. 13:44G-3.2 is required to be licensed as a social worker; and a person whose activities