Social Work Program Resources: Streaming Videos

Featuring interviews with social work students, this video with social work professor Judith Smith considers reasons for studying social work. It looks at first encounters with clients, considers what supervision involves, and outlines the termination process.

In this video by social work professor Judith Smith, social work students show how to apply skills to field work with older adult clients. Viewers learn about support groups, home visits, caregivers, self-determination, ageism, and outreach to the very old.

This video by social work professor Judith Smith examines how a social service agency can be seen through the lens of systems thinking. It also discusses aspects of managing a social service agency.

Providing an overview of mezzo systems thinking in the social work environment, this video by social work professor Judith Smith presents vignettes that show social work students how to use systems thinking to better understand their clients and themselves.

Defining what social work is, this program differentiates between orienting theories and practice theories and reviews a variety of each. It explains the characteristics of an effective social work framework and discusses standards and codes of ethics.