A Broader Conceptual Approach to Clinical Practice for the 21st Century

School Social Work in the United States: Current Evidence and Future Directions

“…It helps explain why, although school social work roles and tasks are potentially complex and multi-level in nature, that actual practices privilege individually-oriented case and group work interventions at the expense of school organizational interventions (Frey and Dupper, 2005;Phillippo and Stone, 2011). It also aids in revealing critical gaps in accumulated school social work and related school-based intervention literatures.…”

“…As such, they have not been consistently funded by schools as a core component of programming and are driven by other agendas; when these services are funded from the school budget, they are typically the first to be cut or reassigned in lean budgetary times (Sedlak, 1997). For example, Frey and Dupper (2005) show how categorical funding streams (e.g., Medicaid and special education) shape the practice and delivery of social work services in schools. Similarly, such services in schools are vulnerable to co-option in tandem with institutional sorting mechanisms.…”

“…The first involves how a given school or district arranges services. A second source of variation is what level of the school ecology is targeted (e.g., individual students, teachers, classrooms) (see Frey and Dupper, 2005). Drawing on an integrated promotion and public health framework, a third source of variation is the population or sub-population targeted.…”

Educating a New Generation of Social Workers: Challenges and Skills Needed for Contemporary Agency-Based Practice

“…Emerging practice trends throughout the past decade include approaches which focus on health promotion, wellness, and disease prevention across fields of practice (Berger 2000), such as with older adults (Berkman et al 2005), in healthcare (Pecukonis et al 2003;Vourlekis et al 2001), and schools (Franklin 2005;Frey and Dupper 2005); neurobiological approaches to address co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders (Johnson 2001); use of the internet for on-line, or ''e-therapy'', counseling and support to clients (Giffords 2009, p. 414); the recovery movement; culturally relevant services (Hoge et al 2004); and the proliferation of evidence-based approaches within all fields of practice.…”

“…Significant growth and changes in specific areas of practice such as aging (Baskind and Briar-Lawson 2005;Berkman et al 2000Berkman et al , 2005Geron et al 2005;Silverstone 2005), employment (Reisch and Gorin 2001) schools (Bailey 2000;Franklin 2000Franklin , 2005Frey and Dupper 2005;Greene and Lee 2001), health care (Bronstein et al 2007;Keefe et al 2009;Pecukonis et al 2003;Vourlekis et al 2001), and mental health (Johnson 2001;Newhill and Korr 2004) necessitate that social work education focus on new areas of content and skills (AllenMeares 2000; Pomeroy 2009Pomeroy , 2010.…”