Translate current research and theory into practice with SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK! With coverage of best practices, ecological and strengths perspectives, and cultural competence, this social work text prepares you for practice in the school setting. Examples and case studies clarify concepts, techniques and strategies and the Book Companion Website provides you with links to relevant website resources and tutorial quizzing.
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Translate current research and theory into practice with SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK! With coverage of best practices, ecological and strengths perspectives, and cultural competence, this social work text prepares you for practice in the school setting. Examples and case studies clarify concepts, techniques and strategies and the Book Companion Website provides you with links to relevant website resources and tutorial quizzing.
About the Author, Lynn Bye
Lynn Bye, MSW, Ph.D. is an associate professor of social work at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where she teaches the school social work course along with other practice courses. Prior to teaching at the college level, Dr. Bye was a school social worker and received recognition as Minnesota School Social Worker of the Year. She has a long and active involvement with the Minnesota School Social Workers Association, having served as both president and treasurer of the organization. Her involvement in the field of school social work continues through her work with the Minnesota School Social Work Summer Institutes and her current research on school social work.
Michelle Alvarez, MSW, Ed.D, LCSW, C-SSWS is an assistant professor of social work at the University of Southern Indiana. She coordinates and teaches courses in the university's school social work specialization. In July 2003 she was appointed to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) School Social Work Section Committee and is now the chair of the committee (as of July 2005). She was elected to the School Social Work Association of American (SSWAA) Board in October 2003. She is editor of the NASW SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK SECTION CONNECTION Newsletter and is a consulting editor for the NASW journal CHILDREN & SCHOOLS as well as the JOURNAL OF SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK. Most importantly, Dr. Alvarez is an advocate for the field of school social work and students!
"I like the [text's] distillation of school social work at a broad, multi-systems level including sensitivity to cultural competence and thinking about practice in educational settings from preventative, intervention and effectiveness perspectives. Overall, a very well conceptualized text…"
