Change and conflict are widely understood to be an inseparable component of the human experience. To this day, change, conflict and the exercise of power between individuals, groups, organizations and nations continue as a constant in human life.
Because the mastery of conflict resolution and management of change are so critically important in human interaction, ETSU’s department of social work offers a specially designed course this fall at ETSU at Kingsport that will teach the art and science of coping with change and conflict.
The course, “Power, Conflict and Resolution in Society” (SOWK 4957-301 or 5957 for graduate students), will be taught Mondays from 6-9 p.m.
Instructor David Long has spent a great deal of time in environments rife with conflict – he has been a civil affairs officer in Vietnam, a high school vice principal, a juvenile probation officer, and an executive officer in a military stockade.
Long, a licensed clinical social worker and certified mediator, is a clinical instructor with the department of psychiatry in ETSU’s Quillen College of Medicine. He was twice elected to the Cocke County Commission and also served as the first director of planning for the Tennessee Department of Correction, as a two-term national vice president of the Veterans Affairs Bargaining Council, and as a three-term president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1687 (AFL/CIO) at the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
This course is ideal for anyone required to engage in dispute resolution at any level, including teachers, social workers, parents, mental health professionals, law enforcement personnel, and professionals working in competitive environments.
Regular ETSU course fees apply. For more information, contact Long at 416-5133 or davelong@chartertn.net, or Beth Shumaker of ETSU at Kingsport at 392-8000.

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