The Clinical specialty is generally very female-friendly with a large majority (81%) of providers reporting as female compared to only 18% reporting as male. People living in New York, California, Florida, Michigan, and Texas enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Clinical providers practice. In all, there are 189,880 registered Clinical providers in the United States with over 18,766 of those located in New York alone while around 15,689 chose to practice in California.
Clinical providers have been assigned the 1041C0700X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level III Area of Specialization. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Clinical specialists practice in 58 different states/territories.
A social worker who holds a master?s or doctoral degree in social work from an accredited school of social work in addition to at least two years of post-master?s supervised experience in a clinical setting. The social worker must be licensed, certified, or registered at the clinical level in the jurisdiction of practice. A clinical social worker provides direct services, including interventions focused on interpersonal interactions, intrapsychic dynamics, and life management issues. Clinical social work services are based on bio-psychosocial perspectives. Services consist of assessment, diagnosis, treatment (including psychotherapy and counseling), client-centered advocacy, consultation, evaluation, and prevention of mental illness, emotional, or behavioral disturbances.