在临床社会工作专业化中，学生将获得参与，评估，干预和评估方面的深入，综合技能，以增强个人，家庭和团体的福祉。我们广泛定义临床社会工作，以涵盖比传统的，基于办公室的私人实践心理治疗更多的内容。临床社会工作是关于帮助社会工作客户改变行为或解决情感问题，而情感问题是人与环境之间关系的函数。根据此定义，传统上不认为会接受临床服务的客户群体（例如父母被授权提高其育儿技能的儿童福利家庭）是临床实践的客户。临床技能对于涉及客户直接联系的社会工作的各个方面以及客户寻求支持，行为改变和情感救济的所有情况（例如临终关怀患者，
In the clinical social work specialization, students get in-depth, comprehensive skills in engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation to enhance the well-being of individuals, families, and groups. We broadly define clinical social work to encompass more than traditional, office-based, private practice psychotherapy. Clinical social work is about helping social work clients change behaviors, or resolve emotional problems that are a function of the interface between person and environment. By this definition, client groups not traditionally thought to receive clinical services, such as child welfare families with parents mandated to improve their childrearing skills, are clients for clinical practice. Clinical skills are essential to all aspects of social work that involve direct client contact and all situations in which clients seek support, behavioral change, and emotional relief such as Hospice patients, those in the criminal justice system, and clients who typically receive case management services.