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SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK : Practice, Policy, and Research Editors: School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive guide to social work practice in schools. This edition includes new chapters on confidentiality, mental health issues, attendance, personal safety, and child welfare. Case examples and policy and practice applications support the strong emphasis on issues of diverse populations in the book. Updated chapters cover IDEA 2004, the No Child Left Behind Act, the accountability movement in education, diversity issues, and the changing economic, social, and political climate for schools in the 21st century. Specific practice applications for new or experienced social workers are covered throughout the book, but are emphasized in a special section (thirteen chapters) that covers group work, work with families, attendance, case management, working with the child welfare system, social skills training, violence reduction, crisis intervention, and peer mediation. New Features Versatile. This edition covers all aspects of school social work practice. Thus it can be used for a single free standing course in school social work, as a separate text for a courses on practice with children or used across several course focusing on school social work. It can serve as a resource for practicing school social workers and for state licensing organizations focused on developing school social work credentials in their states. New editor. Carol Massat, who is editor of School Social Work Journal, has joined Robert Constable, Shirley McDonald, and John P. Flynn. Up to date. This edition has been updated to include emerging trends in school social work and the most recent changes to education legislation and policy. Integrated. Chapters are organized and linked by a consistent theoretical framework and a unifying perspective. Includes issues of diversity. Threaded through each chapter are examples and issues relating to practice with diverse children, families, schools, and communities. Practice orientation. This book is unique in its strong focus on and wide breadth of practice applications in school social work. School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research, Sixth Edition is organized into four sections. The first provides a broad historical and theoretical context for school social work practice. The second section focuses on the current economic, social, and political climate for schools, education legislation, case law, policy analysis, and policy practice in school social work. The third section deals with assessment and includes special education assessment and planning, classroom observation, cross-cultural issues, consultation and collaboration, and adaptive behavior assessment. The final section is a comprehensive resource for the practice of school social work which covers practice with families, personal safety, attendance interventions, case management, mental health issues, collaboration with the child welfare system, group work, social skills training, crisis intervention, reduction of sexual harassment and bullying, and peer mediation. Contents
About the Editors: Robert Constable is professor emeritus of social work at Loyola University Chicago. He completed his AB(Classical) at Georgetown University, his MSW degree at Loyola University, and DSW at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on school social work. Former editor of Social Work in Education, he is author of more than 100 publications in social work. He currently is in private practice and continues his contribution to the literature of his profession. Carol Rippey Massat is associate professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago, where she has taught school social work practice, policy and research over the past fifteen years. She is currently editor of the School Social Work Journal, and is the author of numerous social work publications. She completed her AB (Rhetoric) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her MSW at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a concentration in school social work. She also completed her PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Social Work. Shirley McDonald (MSW, University of Illinois, Chicago) is vice president of the Park/Forest Chicago Heights, Illinois School Board and chair of the Calumet District of the National Association of Social Workers. Former editor of the School Social Work Journal she has long been a leader in the field of school social work. She is past-president of the Illinois Association of School Workers and continued to serve on the Board of the Illinois Association of School Social Workers for many years. She has retired from service as a clinical associate professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago,where she chaired the school social work concentration. John P. Flynn is professor emeritus at Western Michigan University. He earned his MSW from University of Michigan; and PhD in social welfare policy,and planning from the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver. He has taught social welfare policy, planning, and administration at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. 2006, Paper, 720 Pages, ISBN 978-0-925065-95-7, Price $69.95 |
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