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Kansas BSRB advisory committee delays push to reverse social work training changes
Summary
The Social Work Advisory Committee voted to withdraw prior recommendations to pursue statutory reversals (restoring a 1,500-hour clinical training standard and degree-course requirements) for at least a year, citing a hostile legislative climate and concern opening the statute could enable broader deregulation.
The Social Work Advisory Committee to the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board voted to pull its previously approved recommendations asking the board to seek statutory reversals to recent changes in clinical social work training requirements, the committee said during its Dec. meeting.
Co-chair Cynthia Schendel framed the issue as a choice between pressing now for a return to prior standards — including reinstating the 1,500 hours of face-to-face clinical experience and restoring coursework requirements that had been pared back — and waiting until the political environment is less likely to produce unintended changes. "I do have concern that once that starts happening… it would be a…
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