All states require clinical social workers to be licensed, and most states require licensure or certification for
nonclinical social workers.
Not exact matches
Children, but not parents, were included based on their ASD symptoms, and parents scored on average within
nonclinical ranges on the
social responsiveness scale, so perhaps there was limited room for improvement in parents» ASD specific
social communication problems.
This cohort - sequential study examined developmental trajectories of
social anxiety in a
nonclinical sample (N = 331, 161 girls) aged 9 to 17 years at initial and 12 to 21 years at final assessment.
However, none of these studies examined potential subgroups of
social anxiety over the whole adolescent period despite the relevance of this developmental phase to the increase of
social anxiety in
nonclinical populations (Westenberg et al. 2004).
This longitudinal study is the first to examine developmental trajectories of
social anxiety in a
nonclinical sample aged 9 to 21 years and simultaneously test whether conceptually relevant individual level variables assessing cognition,
social competence, and temperament discriminated between the trajectories.
In discussing previous literature we specify whether studies focused on
nonclinical samples with high levels of
social anxiety symptoms or clinical samples with the diagnosis of
social phobia.
The longitudinal study described in this article explored different developmental trajectories of
social anxiety in a
nonclinical sample, spanning adolescence through emerging adulthood, using the growth mixture modeling technique.