NASW views professional development as essential for ensuring quality social work services. Professional development is a self-directed process that requires social workers to assume responsibility for the growth of their professional knowledge base. Regardless of career stage, social workers are ethically required to keep informed of current research, theories, and techniques that guide social work practice to better serve clients and constituents.

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