Full Description
With the complexity of change that PreK-12 schools are facing, frameworks are needed to understand what the 2020s and beyond will require of the school community. While some educational stakeholders are calling for a return to the "three R's" (reading, writing, arithmetic) most educational scholars and futurists envision public schools expanding comprehensive service delivery systems that meet multiple educational, behavioral, and social needs of students and their families. This vision of expanded service delivery includes community partnerships that address students' resource and mental health needs, educational collaborations that bring learning from the community into the classroom, and wellness initiatives that emphasize health and wellbeing for all stakeholders.
Concurrently, social work as a profession is adapting to the increase in online mental health services, re-examining its history, practices, identity, and complicity in oppression, and revisiting its roots of community-based practice and activism. The profession has increased its footprint in policy advocacy and support for segments of the population targeted by certain policymakers such as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) populations and the Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) populations. The profession is still tentatively advancing toward full technology adoption, including utilization of technology-supported social work interventions.
With this background of change facing society, Emerging Trends in School Social Work Practice focuses on the challenges and opportunities to further develop the professional specialty of school social work. The book examines 13 different emerging trends through the lenses of school social work practitioners and academic scholars working in partnership for each chapter. The book's editors, former school social workers and current social work scholars, worked with a national team of authors to write the chapters on the new landscape for this micro-mezzo-macro career. The information in this text will help school social workers prepare, plan, and develop their existing knowledge into accelerated skills needed to meet these demands. The book concludes with a chapter written by school social work leaders examining their burgeoning role in the PreK-12 educational landscape and leaving breadcrumbs for others to follow their path to greater influence.
Contents
Introduction
1: Tory Cox, M. Annette Clayton, Sarah Caliboso-Soto, and Lisa Wobbe-Veit: Emerging Trends in School Social Work
2: Stacy Gherardi, Jennifer Montes, Nicole Nina, Steve Hydon, and Kate Phillippo: Beyond Self-Care: Sustaining School Social Workers and Creating Healthy School Ecosystems
3: Tasha Childs, Jennifer Murphy, Courtney Ober, Kelly Sullivan, and Aidyn L. Iachini: Prioritizing Mental Health Services for Student Wellness
4: Holly Vugia and Tiffany Kavanaugh: Healing-Centered Engagement: Moving Beyond Trauma-Informed Schools
5: Lisa Wobbe-Veit, Kerry Doyle, Marleen Wong, Susan N. Vialpando, and Martha Cecilia Jimenez: Rethinking School Safety: A Focus on Mental Health for Violence Prevention and Threat Management
6: Martell Teasley, LaShonda Linnen, and Marina Delgado: Inequitable Learning Loss in the Pandemic Aftermath
7: Angela Baerwolf, Jami Imhof, Eboni Callow, Loretta Massey, and Jacqualine Foster: Evolving Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
8: Sheri Koller, Chanda Bass, Carolyn Curtis, and Jandel Crutchfield: A Framework for Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Practices
9: Robin DeLuca-Acconi, Emily Shayman, Cesar Delgado, and Carleen Mazour: Innovative Practices in Diverse School Settings
10: Jody Kristoff, Lori Lazzari, Michele Patak-Pietrafesa, and Natasha Bowen: Emerging Models for Improving Practitioners' Research and Practice Skills
11: Jenny Braunginn, Sarah Caliboso-Soto, Christina Devers, and Lynet Mortensen: Harnessing Technology to Expand Access and Enhance Engagement
12: Dee Stalnecker, Wendy DuCassé, and Michelle Alvarez: Future Funding for School Social Work Services
13: Patrick Mulkern, Brenda Lindsey, Saras Chung, and Amanda Wentz: Public School Districts as Policy Battlegrounds
14: Deirdre Natasha Scott, Nicole Gilmore, Christy McCoy, Terriyln Rivers-Cannon, and M. Annette Clayton: School Social Work Leadership in the 21st Century
Appendix A: Online Links by Chapter
Appendix B: Resources for Emerging Trends in SSW Practice
