New Mexico Register / Volume
XXXIII, Issue 5 / March 8, 2022
TITLE 16 OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
LICENSING
CHAPTER 63 SOCIAL WORKERS
PART 9 BACCALAUREATE SOCIAL WORKER
16.63.9.1 ISSUING AGENCY:
Regulation and Licensing Department, Board of Social Work Examiners P.O.
Box 25101, Santa Fe, NM 87504.
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16.63.9.2 SCOPE:
All baccalaureate social workers, master social workers, and independent
social workers.
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16.63.9.3 STATUTORY AUTHORITY: These parts are promulgated pursuant to the
Social Work Practice Act, Subsection A of Section 61-31-8, 14-2-1, 61-31-19
NMSA 1978.
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16.63.9.4 DURATION: Permanent
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16.63.9.5 EFFECTIVE DATE: March 13, 2022, unless a different date is cited at the end of a section.
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16.63.9.6 OBJECTIVE: To state the minimum requirements for
licensure as a social worker at the baccalaureate level, to outline the
parameters of practice, and the procedure to renew a license.
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16.63.9.7 DEFINITIONS: [RESERVED]
16.63.9.8 QUALIFICATION OF LICENSURE:
Applicants for licensure as baccalaureate social worker must possess the
following minimum qualifications:
A. be at least 18
years of age;
B. possess a
bachelor's degree in social work from a program accredited by the council on
social work education;
C. successfully
pass the association of social work board examination and the jurisprudence
examination;
D. documents
completion of the required course in New Mexico cultures.
E. provide proof of
any disqualifying criminal convictions as defined in 16.63.13.9 NMAC.
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16.63.9.9 PARAMETERS OF PRACTICE:
A. This is the
entry licensing level. The baccalaureate
social worker ("LBSW") is prepared to assume the beginning level
professional role in public and private social service agencies.
B. LBSWs are
prepared through beginning professional knowledge in human behavior in the
social environment, generalist social work practice, knowledge of the history
of social policy, knowledge of how to utilize social research findings in their
practice and having had supervised field practicum experience. Baccalaureate social work is basic generalist
practice that includes assessment planning, intervention, evaluation, case
management, information and referral, counseling, supervision, consultation,
education, advocacy, community organization, and the development,
implementation, of policies, programs and activities. LBSWs may work with individuals, families,
communities, groups and organizations at a beginning level.
C. The LBSW
utilizes the basic problem-solving process of gathering information, assessing
that information at a beginning professional level, developing an intervention
plan, implementing the plan and conducts follow-up. This process at the LBSW level requires the
application of social work theory, knowledge, methods, ethics and the
professional use of self to restore or enhance social, psychosocial, or biopsychosocial
functioning.
D. The LBSW must
not practice independently as a private practitioner.
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16.63.9.10 RENEWAL OF LICENSE: Before
July 1 of the renewal year, each baccalaureate social worker shall apply for
license renewal and shall pay the renewal fee as set forth in Part 8.
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HISTORY OF 16.63.9 NMAC:
Pre-NMAC History: The
material in this part was derived from that previously filed with the
Commission of Public Records-State Records Center and Archives:
Rule 3,
Baccalaureate Social Worker, 12/1/1989.
Rule 9,
Baccalaureate Social Worker, 4/15/1991.
Rule 9,
Baccalaureate Social Worker, 5/22/1992.
History of Repealed Material:
16.63.9 NMAC – Baccalaureate Social Worker, filed 5/20/2002 was repealed and replaced by 16.63.9 NMAC Baccalaureate Social Worker, effective 3/13/2022.
Other History:
16.63.9 NMAC – Baccalaureate Social Worker, (filed 5/20/2002)
replaced by 16.63.9 NMAC – Baccalaureate Social Worker, effective 3/13/2022.