A CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER is a mental health professional with training in the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of emotional disorders and mental illness. Clinical social workers are skilled in helping with problems of living and facilitating personal growth and development. Professional services can be provided in the context of individual, family, marital, and group psychotherapy and in consultation and education within private and public organizations.

Clinical social workers specialize in, but are not limited to, addressing such individual, interpersonal and social problems as:

• Depression and anxiety
• Developmental problems
• Drug and alcohol dependence
• Eating disorders
• Family conflicts

Professional clinicians work with a broad range of populations including children, adolescents, adults and older adults in all socioeconomic and racial populations. Clinical social workers provide about 55% of all therapy in the mental health field.

North Carolina Social Worker of the Year

The NCSCSW annually recognizes a professional social worker in North Carolina.