B.S. in Social Work – Healthcare, Aging, and Medical Social Work

Residential Bachelor of Science in Social Work (BSSW) – Healthcare, Aging, and Medical Social Work

Explore your interest in healthcare, wellness, administration, housing, policy, and social or community services with a B.S. in Social Work (BSSW) – Healthcare, Aging, and Medical Social Work from Liberty University. Here, you’ll be equipped to develop a proficiency and cultural competency to address client needs in a holistic manner.

This cognate will help you investigate various types of medical social work and develop foundational responsibilities and tasks, including engagement with clients and families, providing client education, resources, connections and services. You will take courses that address medical social work practice within hospitals, clinics, inpatient/outpatient settings, and various healthcare related services or agencies.

Learn how to care for the whole person – mind, body, and spirit. Find out how to engage with patients and their families in a variety of situations – from the home to the hospital and out into the community. This program relies on research-informed knowledge and evidence-based practice skills to help you relate with and help those in need. While a student, you will practice completing spiritual assessments and assisting clients in the development of coping skills with health and mental-health struggles. You will learn to adapt to and assist with changing family dynamics that impact aging adults throughout the life span. 

Learn from professors who are grounded in their Christian faith and who possess expansive knowledge and experience within the specialized areas identified within this cognate. This cognate will equip you for a career in for-profit, non-profit, local or government-based care.

The B.S. in Social Work – Healthcare, Aging, and Medical Social Work is also offered online.

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Accreditation

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Academics: Social Work (BSSW) Degree

**The BSSW Program does not give academic credit for life experiences or previous work experience. The program does recognize the value of previous work and life experience. The program encourages students to integrate the knowledge gained in the classroom with their work and life experience.

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