School Social Work Practice and Response to Intervention

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Kelly ◽  
A. J. Frey ◽  
M. Alvarez ◽  
S. C. Berzin ◽  
G. Shaffer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Response To Intervention ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
School Social Work ◽  
Social Work Practice

scholarly journals Practice in a Pandemic: School Social Workers’ Adaptations and Experiences During the 2020 COVID-19 School Disruptions

2021 ◽  
pp. 104438942110098
Author(s):  
Michael S. Kelly ◽  
Rami Benbenishty ◽  
Gordon Capp ◽  
Kate Watson ◽  
Ron Astor
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
School Social Work ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Virtual School ◽  
School Social Workers ◽  
Traditional Practice

In March 2020, as American PreK-12 schools shut down and moved into online learning in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, there was little information about how school social workers (SSWs) were responding to the crisis. This study used a national online survey to understand how SSWs ( N = 1,275) adapted their school practice during the initial 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Findings from this study indicate that SSWs made swift and (relatively) smooth adaptations of their traditional practice role to the new context, though not without reporting considerable professional stress and personal challenges doing so. SSWs reported significant concerns about their ability to deliver effective virtual school social work services given their students’ low motivation and lack of engagement with online learning, as well as significant worries about how their students were faring during the first months of the pandemic. Implications for school social work practice, policy, and research are discussed.

Mapping the field of international comparative research in school social work

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087281989774
Author(s):  
Kathrin Franziska Beck ◽  
Juha Hämäläinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
School Social Work ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
School Social Workers ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
International Comparative Research ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
National Boundaries

This article maps the field of international comparative research in school social work. For this purpose, a systematic literature review was conducted and subjected to a narrative synthesis. The review reveals 11 publications that are predominantly non-empirical, take mainly Asian, European, North American countries and Australia and New Zealand into account, and are focused on profession-related and sociopolitical aspects of school social work. A synthesis of school social work practice themes transcending national boundaries emerged from the findings, covering child-, family-, school-, and community-related issues. Accordingly, children are predominantly confronted with similar issues, irrespective of the place where they live, such as violence toward themselves, at home, in school, and in their community. Bearing in mind methodological challenges when carrying out comparative studies, recommendations include the conduct of practice-focused studies that generate new stimuli to improve already well-developed practices in a culturally appropriate way and enable mutual learning among school social workers.

The changing context of China: Emerging issues for school social work practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Levine ◽  
Kai Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
School Social Work ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
School Social Workers ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Effects On Children ◽  
The Impact

This article provides a contextualized analysis of the ways in which school social workers may address the impact of economic, social and political challenges as they will be experienced by the children of mainland China, and how the profession of school social work may serve to ameliorate the negative effects on children as they transition through these developments.

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