Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(1)
Exception for State, County
and Municipal Employees. Nothing in
258 CMR
9.01 shall be construed to prevent an
individual who does not possess a license issued by the Board from engaging in
the practice of social work, performing or offering to perform social work
services, or representing himself or herself to the public as a social worker,
as long as he or she does so exclusively in his or her capacity as an employee
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or a unit of county or municipal
government located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and as long as
licensure is not required by some other applicable provision of law.
(2)
Exception for Social Work
Students. Nothing in
258 CMR
9.01 shall be construed to prevent an
individual who does not possess a license issued by the Board, but who is duly
enrolled as a student in an undergraduate or graduate school of social work
accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, from engaging in the
practice of social work or performing or offering to perform social work
services, as long as he or she complies with all of the following conditions:
(a) The student performs all such social work
services under the direct personal supervision of:
1. an individual who holds a license to
practice social work in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Licensed
Independent Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Certified Social
Worker;
2. an individual who meets
the requirements for licensure in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Certified Social
Worker, but is exempt from the licensure requirement pursuant to 258 CMR
9.02(1); or
3. a member of the
faculty of the undergraduate or graduate school of social work in which the
student is enrolled;
(b)
The student is designated or identified as a "social work student", "social
work intern", "social work trainee", or by a similar title which clearly
indicates his or her training status, at all times while performing such social
work services; and
(c) The student
does not hold himself or herself out to the public by any title or description
which states or implies that he or she is licensed to practice social work in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
(3)
Exception for Practice While
License Application is Pending. Nothing in
258 CMR
9.01 shall be construed to prevent an
individual who has filed a license application with the Board for licensure as
a social worker, but whose license application has not yet been finally
approved or denied by the Board, from engaging in the practice of social work
or performing or offering to perform social work services, as long as he or she
meets all of the following conditions:
(a)
That individual is authorized to take the examination prescribed by
258 CMR 9.00 for the level of
licensure for which he or she has applied, and has not previously failed that
examination more than once;
(b)
That individual performs all such social work services under the direct
personal supervision of:
1. an individual who
holds a license to practice social work in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as
a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Certified Social
Worker; or
2. an individual who
meets the requirements for licensure in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Certified Social
Worker, but is exempt from the licensure requirement pursuant to 258 CMR
9.02(1);
(c) That
individual is designated or identified as a "social work intern", "social work
trainee", or by a similar title which clearly indicates his or her training
status, at all times while performing such social work services; and
(d) That individual does not hold himself or
herself out to the public by any title or description which states or implies
that he or she is licensed to practice social work in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
