NASW Standards for Social Work Case Management - National ...

“consonance…among the case manager’spreferred approach, the value set and experiencesof clients, and the culture of the sponsoringorganization” (Moxley, 2011, p. 277) exists.The National Association of Social WorkersStandards for Social Work Case Managementreflect the current environments in which casemanagement is practiced. For many socialworkers, these standards reinforce currentpractices. For others, they provide objectives toachieve and guidelines to assist in practice.Goals of the StandardsThese standards address case management as aspecialty area within social work practice. Thestandards are designed to enhance socialworkers’ awareness of the values, knowledge,methods, and skills needed to practice casemanagement competently.Ideally, these standards will stimulate thedevelopment of clear guidelines, goals, andobjectives related to case management in socialwork practice, research, policy, and education.The other goals of the standards are■ to inform social workers, policymakers,employers, and the public about casemanagement as a long-standing andcontinually expanding domain of socialwork practice■ to improve the quality of social work casemanagement services■ to provide a basis for the development ofcontinuing education materials and programsrelated to social work case management12