Hawaii Revised Statutes 467E-5 – License required
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 467E-5
- Practice of social work: means applying the formal knowledge base, theoretical concepts, specific functional skills, and essential social values that are used to effect change in human behavior, emotional responses, and social conditions, and helping individuals, couples, families, groups, and community organizations enhance or restore their capacities for personal and social functioning while preventing and controlling social problems. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 467E-1
No person shall purport to be a “social worker”, “licensed bachelor social worker”, “licensed social worker”, “licensed clinical social worker”, or use the letters “S.W.”, “L.B.S.W.”, “L.S.W.”, or “L.C.S.W.” in connection with the person’s name, or use any words or symbols indicating or tending to indicate that the person is a social worker, licensed bachelor social worker, licensed social worker, or licensed clinical social worker, or engage in the practice of social work as defined in this chapter without meeting the applicable requirements and holding a license as set forth in this chapter.