Canada
A four-year Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) is required for entry into the field in most parts of Canada. In Alberta the entry level requirement is the diploma in social work. Alberta also has mandatory registration. A Masters Degree in Social Work (MSW) is usually required to provide psychotherapy treatment. In Canada social workers may provide treatment but cannot diagnose. Some provinces require registration in order to legally use the title "social worker". Some provinces also require an exam prerequisite for certification through the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB). In British Columbia however, a social worker with extensive clinical experience in mental health, may apply for training and licensure with the BCASW to practice as a Registered Clinical Social Worker, and can make DSM IV-TR diagnoses.
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“What makes the United States government, on the whole, more tolerable—I mean for us lucky white men—is the fact that there is so much less of government with us.... But in Canada you are reminded of the government every day. It parades itself before you. It is not content to be the servant, but will be the master; and every day it goes out to the Plains of Abraham or to the Champs de Mars and exhibits itself and toots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)