Competencies

Abstract

I appreciate this opportunity to participate in the ongoing discourse about professional competencies, social work regulation, and social work education. In 2012, the Canadian Council of Social Work Regulators (CCSWR) developed an Entry-Level Competency Profile for the social work profession in response to the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), which ensured inter-provincial mobility for registered social workers. While the Entry-Level Competency profile was the culmination of a series of debates, panels, and roundtables the establishment of the competency profile by no means concluded the debate or dispelled the fears associated with a competency framework; particularly for social work educators. In this paper, I aim to continue to develop the conversation by forwarding a perspective that views entry-level competencies in social work practice as a natural extension of existing educational practices.