Psychiatrists and Clinical Social Workers

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This paper is a demographic analysis of the sociological differences between clinical social workers and psychiatrists. Issues discussed are gender and racial differences, average salaries, job availability, and licensure requirements. Includes tables.

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"Non-physician providers have become an increasingly larger share of the mental health system, producing a dramatic change in the mental health workforce over the past thirty years. As the population of psychiatrists has virtually remained the same, the number of clinical social workers in the United States has greatly increased. Despite the fact that psychiatrists and clinical social workers serve the same population and provide very similar services to that population, they share a very small number of sociological commonalities."

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