School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research

School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research has been a foundational guide to the profession for over 40 years. The first comprehensive introduction to the field, the book has featured the writings of the pioneers in the field while also accommodating the remarkable changes and growing complexities of the profession with each subsequent revision. The profession continues to grow in both the US and internationally, despite the ever-present concerns surrounding limited resources, budgets, and social worker to student ratios. Contemporary school social work takes place throughout the whole school and community, it takes place through policy change, and it takes place with at-risk students and their families as well as through individual and group work with students who struggle both emotionally and academically. This book reflects the many ways that school social work practice impacts academic, behavioral, and social outcomes for both youths and the broader school community.

This revision features the contributions of 21 new scholars who bring their expertise in the field to this classic text. There are ten all-new chapters that reflect the current and emerging issues central to the profession, and eight extensive revisions of chapters from the previous edition. The eighth edition strengthens the book's focus on evidence informed practice, and places all content within the context of the prevailing multi-tiered model of school interventions.

Robert Constable (DSW, University of Pennsylvania; MSW, Loyola University Chicago) is professor emeritus of social work at Loyola University Chicago. Former editor of Social Work in Education, he is author of more than 100 publications in social work. Professor Constable currently is in private practice and continues his contribution to the literature of his profession.
Carol Rippey Massat (PhD, MSW, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 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.
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 (PhD, University of Denver; MSW, University of Michigan) is professor emeritus at Western Michigan University. He has taught social welfare policy, planning, and administration at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.