Online Training for Working with Student Veterans: A Social Work Elective Course
Date
2015-01
Authors
Selber, Katherine
Biggs, Mary Jo Garcia
Chavkin, Nancy Feyl
Wright, Micah C.
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Online Learning Consortium
Abstract
This article describes one school of social work’s innovative online elective course to prepare Masters of Social Work (MSW) students for practice with the military, veterans and their families. Developed as part of a university-wide Veterans Initiative, this online course keeps the focus on the student veteran and uses the best practices of online education. The authors share their strategies and make recommendations for future trainings.
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social work, military, Veterans, online training, Social Work
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Selber, K., Biggs Garcia, M. J., Chavkin, N. F., & Wright, M. C. (2015). Online training for working with student veterans: A social work elective course. Online Learning, 19(1), pp. 117-128.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.