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Weist, Mark D.; Mellin, Elizabeth A.; Garbacz, S. Andrew; Anderson-Butcher, Dawn – Communique, 2019
All four authors of this article are active in the movement toward more comprehensive school mental health (SMH) services involving community mental health staff joining school employees to increase the depth and quality of programs and services within the multitiered system of support (MTSS; Garbacz, 2019; Mellin & Weist, 2011; Weist, Lever,…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Social Bias, Clinical Psychology, Mental Health
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Kilbane, Teresa; Pryce, Julia; Hong, Philip Young P. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2013
Legislative advocacy is an important and long-standing skill in social work. However, this role cannot be left solely to social workers who specialize in macro and policy practice. Rather, clinical social workers who assist clients as they face "private" troubles (Mills, 1959) also need to face the structural barriers that contribute to…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Activism, Models, Caseworker Approach
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Goldfarb, Fran D.; Devine, KimLori; Yingling, Jacalyn T.; Hill, Antoinette; Moss, Jan; Ogburn, Elaine Shurie; Roberts, Ruth J.; Smith, Mark A.; Pariseau, Crystal – Journal of Family Social Work, 2010
It has different names; in health care it is referred to as "family centered," in mental health, "family driven," and in social work, "relationship based." Regardless of the name, all of these concepts share the same core principle that professionals intentionally partner with families: seeking family input, viewing the family as the primary…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Social Work, Individualized Family Service Plans, Family Involvement
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Whiteford, Harvey A.; Doessel, Darrel P.; Sheridan, Judith S. – Clinical Psychologist, 2008
This paper provides a background to the mental health policy changes introduced by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) in 2006. It then considers a major Australian Government COAG reform, the revision of the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), by analysing the month-by-month utilisation of the available time-series data for the 17-month…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Mental Health, Occupational Therapy, Social Work