Hello my name is Dr. Heather Dime and I'm BSW program director. Our BSW program
is nestled in the southern Appalachian Mountains, bordering North Carolina and
Virginia. We view ourselves as a regional program, collaborating with community
members and service providers in Northeast Tennessee, Western North
Carolina, and Southwest Virginia. The demographics of both our faculty and
students a representative of this culturally rich geographic region. Our
social work program has been accredited since 1974 by the Council on Social Work
education. Our program provides opportunities for students to acquire
knowledge for better understanding of human behavior in the environment, social
welfare policy, practice methods, and research skills necessary for successful
interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. At
ETSU you will find a community that welcomes you, academic programs that
challenge you, professors and advisors who inspire and guide you, and a campus life
that makes your 4 years in college your best years yet. The faculty in the
Department of Social Work at East Tennessee State University recognizes
high-quality teaching as first priority. Our faculty are accomplished
professional practitioners, as well as highly qualified instructors. Each
faculty member in our BSW program has years of experience as a practicing
social worker and was hired at ETSU only after having demonstrated the ability to
distill and convey essentials of practice experience and practice wisdom from
their earlier careers to students in our program. Book learning alone isn't
sufficient for selection to our faculty because teaching is our highest priority
your learning becomes our most important concern. I invite you to enroll in the
introduction to Social Work course to experience and acquaint yourself with
the Social Work profession. If you find yourself thinking you found your niche,
feel free to contact any faculty member in the BSW program to discuss your
interests. In addition to classes on campus, we now
offer the BSW program in a cohort format at ETSU in Kingsport, Abington, and
Sevierville. This format is designed to meet the needs of students across the
region. I look forward to seeing you and visiting with you at Lyle house, which is
our home on the ETSU campus. As you have questions about the BSW program, please
don't hesitate to contact our department. So now let me introduce you to our BSW
faculty, thank you. Hello and welcome! I'm Dr. Paul Baggett, faculty in the Social
Work Department. The purpose of this video is to give you a brief overview of
the Social Work profession. So it's going to include a little information about
the profession, areas where social workers practice, places that employ
social workers, and then a little on-the-job outlook for social workers.
Social workers generally help people solve and cope with the problems in
their lives. According to the national association of social workers, or as
you'll hear called NASW, the primary mission of Social Work is to enhance
human wellbeing and meet the basic needs of all people with particular
attention to the needs and empowerment of people who oppressed,
vulnerable, and living in poverty. So first, I just want to share a few things
about the profession. The profession in the United States began in late 19th and
early 20th centuries. The NASW was established in 1955 and remains the
largest membership organization of professional social workers, with about
150,000 members. The NASW code of ethics addresses ethical principles and ethical
standards of professional practice. They offer a framework for dealing with
ethical issues and service guidelines for the social workers conduct. Now
social workers in Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, and other states have
a professional title protection. So this means that it restricts the use of the
term, or title, 'social worker' to those who have either earned a bachelor's or
master's degree in social work from a credit program or have a doctorate a PhD
or are already licensed in Tennessee. Tennessee, North Carolina, and
Virginia also have multi-level licensure. States made licensed social workers on
undergraduate or graduate levels. Here are a few places social workers practice:
they practice an administration and management, advocacy, aging and
gerontology, Child and Family Welfare, community organization, criminal justice,
disability, health care, mental health care, public policy, politics, research,
schools, and substance abuse clinics. Organizations that employ social workers
include Family Children Services, community health centers, counseling
centers, courts, mental health centers, home health agencies, hospice agencies,
hospitals, long-term care facilities, jails, probation departments, prisons,
somewhere in private practice, somewhere in psychiatric hospitals, schools, they
work in residential programs, senior centers, substance abuse programs, victim
service programs, veterans hospitals and programs, and voc rehab programs.
Regarding the outlook for social workers, so according to the bureau US Labor
Statistics, employment for social workers expect to grow by twelve percent from
2014 to 2024. That is faster than average for all
occupations. Employment of healthcare social workers and mental health and
substance abuse social workers is expected to grow by nineteen percent in
that time. That is actually much faster than the average for all occupations.
Well I hope you found this information useful and for more information on the
Social Work profession go to NASWDC.org and for more information on the Social
Work job outlook go to bls.gov. Thank you so much for your time. Hi, my name is Pam
Davison and I'm the director of BSW field education. That means I am the
person that finds a field placement or internship for you
in your senior year. A field placement is an internship required by
the Council on Social Work education, or CSWE,
which is an outside Social Work accrediting body. Internship is a very
important piece to your education. In fact, the Council on Social Work
education describes field as the heart of Social Work. I love working with
students to find and complete internships. It is where the light bulbs
start going off and everything starts to make sense for you. Students begin to see
what they have learned in a classroom setting become real. In a practice
setting or internship in your Social Work classes you will learn values,
skills, and knowledge as a generalist Social Work practitioner. In your
internship, you will practice using and reinforcing those values, skills, and
knowledge under the direct supervision of someone who has a Social Work degree.
The fall of your senior year you start field internships and complete
approximately 16 hours a week for two semesters, for a total of four hundred
and thirty hours. So, yes, you are getting a lot of experience.
Sometimes these internship agencies may hire you after your internship or they
can write you reference letters for future employment. Social Work
internships are taken very seriously and we ask that the
agency treat you as an employee. Social Work internships are somewhat different
than other internships, as you are really learning social work and social work
skills. You work with clients and groups and complete paperwork, such as
psychosocial assessments. You will provide case management services to
clients and provide supportive counseling. In your first semester junior
year you will receive a field internship
application from me or the field office or your program coordinator, if you are
in a cohort or off-campus location. You will complete and turn in that
application early on in your second semester junior year. In applying for
your internship, you will need an excellent resume. So, at any time in your
education process, you can contact University career services at ETSU to
help you develop that resume. After you send your application to the field
office or your program director you will be contacted by us to set up a meeting
and discuss your internship and your desired placement options. Yes, you have a
choice in where you are placed. Then the field office will start the process of
locating a placement and keep you updated about interviewing with
prospective internship agencies. This can be a slow process and can take several
months. I really hope you decide to make Social Work your career choice and I
hope you do that at ETSU. If you do please drop by and see me anytime at
Lyle house. Hello, I'm clinical assistant Professor W. Tebow. I began working at
ETSU teaching social work and providing clinical supervision to social work
interns at ETSU pediatrics two years ago. One of my favorite courses to teach and
subjects to talk about is Social Work values and ethics. The core values of
social work are service, social justice, dignity and worth of the individual,
importance of human relationships, integrity, and competency. I remember
learning about these as an undergraduate student and feeling so excited that I
was entering a field that aligned with a belief system I knew that I had but did
not know how to verbalize. It's exciting to work with people
in a field who share these values about being of service to vulnerable
populations, standing up for human rights by becoming involved in social justice
action, honoring everyone's differences, and valuing relationships. I also respect
that our values include walking and integrity doing things in an honorable
way and practicing competently by never going beyond our scope of what we have
learned in order to do no harm to individuals, families, and communities we
serve. At ETSU we hold these values in our department with each other and for
our students just as we do in the field of social work. This is what makes
teaching and learning social work at ETSU both rewarding and fulfilling. Hi,
I'm Dr. Raina Duncan Dassin and I am the director of
the extended campus programming and I'm going to tell you about a couple of our
locations and my colleague here, Tiffany Presnell, will tell you about the other.
Sevierville location the extended campus location in Abington is at the Southwest
Virginia Higher Education Center it's off exit 14 on I 81 and the extended
location in Kingsport is at the Higher Education Center 300 West Market Street
and the location in Sevierville is 2025 Red Bank Road outstanding so the reason
that we're so excited about our extended campus programming is accessibility it
lets you live at home get some work experience and go to school full-time
and finish in two years so that you have your bachelor's of Social Work and you
have saved money and you have gained that incredible experience that's going
to look so good on your resume we also provide individualized advising which
comes in very handy when you're a transfer student so I would call us
transfer student friendly wouldn't yes ma'am we also do individualized
field placements or we meet with the students see where they're at what kind
of jobs they would like to look at what kind of experiences they would like to
have and we go out to the community and do our best to find the perfect
placement so at the extended campus you can get exactly the same curriculum
exactly the same professors with exactly the same accredited program and half of
your classes will be online and half in-person and we also offer very
affordable tuition it's something I've brought up before I
wish I had looked around a little bit closer at the cost of college before I
went ETSU is very reasonable and we have scholarships that we offer and one thing
that we offer in Sevierville is the Tennessee promise and the Abington
Bachelor of Social Work students are all accepted at the end state tuition right
yes the in-state tuition rate and that's good so y'all come definitely we have a
lot to offer and we would love to have you