L.I.C.S.W. means "Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker". It is a license from the government that allows one to conduct business and charge insurance companies for performing clinical social work. All of those categories I listed are called social work in the United States (note the S.W. in the license). I have no idea what the different functions are called in Vancouver (pause to note that Vancouver is the most beautiful city in North America, at least of the ones I have seen).
You seem to be saying that only the ones you hate are social workers, what you call the "nanny state" (a dead giveaway of POV) and I call the "cruel orphan warden" hypothesis (smarty-pants version of same), and all the others are something else. But, at least in the states, they all go to social work school and they all call themselves social worker and no amount of bluster will change it, although I grant the terminology may be different in Canada.
Tom P. O88
|From: Jonathan Walther krooger@debian.org |Content-Disposition: inline |Sender: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 09:20:22 -0800 | | |--pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed |Content-Disposition: inline |Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable | |On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:22:46PM -0500, Tom Parmenter wrote: |>1 - social worker -- employee of government agency, working under a |>budget and administering policies in the context of individuals having |>some kind of problem (sometimes with the government) | |This is a social worker. | |>2 - social worker -- employee of private social services agency |>working with individuals having some kind of problem | |These used to be called social workers, but with the passing of the work |house, no longer are. | |>3 - social worker -- employed by private agency providing |>psychotherapeutic support, often with problem solving included | |Nor are these. | |>4 -- social worker -- self-employed, providing psychotherapeutic |>support under health insurance, often with problem solving included. | |Same. Often this would be called a "Community health support worker", |"Community health nurse", or similar. Not a social worker. | |>All have weighty responsibilities, which means all have some |>opportunity/danger of doing harm. =20 | |When one human being gains power over another, there will be abuses and |resentment. Nanny fascism is still fascism. | |Jonathan | |--=20