Background Information on Dr. Bill Anderson, Professor of Social Work:
Bill Anderson has been on the Minnesota State
University, Mankato faculty since 1977. He was the first chair of
the Department of Social Work after it left the Department of
Sociology in 1987. Bill has an MSW (1974) and a Ph.D. (1977) from
the School of Social Work at Florida State University; his
Bachelor’s degree from Brown University is in Psychology
(1970). Bill's first practice experience was as a drafted Social
Work Specialist in the U.S. Army, where he worked at the Mental
Health Consultation Service and William Beaumont General Hospital
in El Paso, Texas, with active duty soldiers and their families.
Fifteen years later he worked with Minnesota Vietnam Veterans
Outreach in Mankato with veterans and their partners experiencing
Post-Traumatic Stress. In between he worked in a variety of
settings including: graduate field placements in county social
work and at the Florida Drug Abuse Program, teaching at Florida
State University, and an NIMH-funded research project on
deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. He has also consulted
with various human service organizations on research and program
evaluation issues and has spent several years as a consultant to
the United Way on Outcomes research.
At Minnesota State University, Bill primarily teaches: SW-443, Practice II (interpersonal/family/group helping skills); SW-469, Applied Social Work Research; SW-495, the Senior Paper Seminar; and, SW-210, Introduction to Social Work, though he has also taught most of the courses in the social work curriculum (see Teaching page).
Bill's research interests include social policy issues (especially professional regulation both in the United States and Europe), research methods, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among veterans and other survivors.
Bill was a founding member and served on the Minnesota Board of Social Work from 1987-1999. He served two terms as the chairperson of this social work licensing agency and represented Minnesota on the American Association of State Social Work Boards (then AASSWB, now ASWB) as both a delegate and an at-large member of the Board of Directors. He also served as a founding member of AASSWB's national Approved Continuing Education committee. Bill spent many years on the Board of the statewide social work faculty association, the Minnesota Conference on Social Work Education (MCSWE), and currently serves on the Region IX Board of the Minnesota Social Services Association, MSSA.
Bill has built a relationship with Bristol
University's BICEP program which enables students and faculty
from the United States to study comparative social policy in
England. Pictures from the 1999 and 2000 trips are displayed at http://homepage.mac.com/wanderso/PhotoAlbum.html
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