Has a broader meaning and encompasses social work, public welfare, and other related programs and activities. The basic well-being of an individual, or any group of people. This is addressed by the services, organizations, and other ways in which people's needs are met.
Learn how social workers use their professional expertise to assist people.This text is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series.The Social Work Experience: An Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare introduces students to the profession of social work including eight major fields of practice, and provides in-depth discussion of social welfare policy, its history, contemporary issues, and probable future trends. The book helps students understand how social workers use their professional expertise to assist people in solving a wide variety of problems to improve their lives. Mary Ann Suppes brings an unusual breadth of teaching, practice, and professional experience to the writing of The Social Work Experience. She is currently a professor of social work at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she has served as chair of the social work department for many years. She has provided curriculum consultation to numerous colleges and universities.
She holds membership in the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors (BPD), the National Association of Social Workers, and the Wisconsin Council on Social Work Education. She served for many years on the CSWE Commission on Accreditation and also served several terms as a member of the board of directors of BPD. She currently chairs the BPD Social Work Education Continuum Committee. She has also been treasurer of the Wisconsin Council on Social Work Education and has chaired numerous accreditation site visits for CSWE. Mary Ann Suppes received both her undergraduate and graduate (MSW) degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and did postgraduate work at the University of Chicago.Carolyn Cressy Wells is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She previously taught social work at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.
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She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the Academy of Certified Social Workers, and has served on a number of accreditation site teams for the Council on Social Work Education. She is author of three other social work texts: Social Work Day to Day: The Experience of Generalist Social Work Practice; Social Work Ethics Day to Day: Guidelines for Professional Practice; and Stepping to the Dance: The Training of a Family Therapist. She is a Certified Music Practitioner and provides harp music at bedside for a local hospice; she also conducts workshops on Spirituality, Science and Healing. She received her undergraduate degree in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and an MSSW and Ph.D. In Child Development and Family Relationships from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.