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Grant, Jessica; Yokum, Russell; Holzman, Glenn – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2020
Based on existing empirical research, schools continue to use single intervention programs for intervening on behalf of at-risk students despite the fact that those programs do not meet with significant success in decreasing dropout rates. The problem is that the phenomenon of multidimensional approaches to intervening on behalf of ninth-grade…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Intervention, At Risk Students, High School Students
Van Drunen, Molly; Packard Tucker, L.; Dworsky, A. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2022
This brief describes the relationship between placement stability and youth engagement in the Youth Transitions Partnership (YTP), a program developed and implemented by the Alameda County Social Services Agency (SSA) for 14- to 20-year-olds in foster care who have multiple risk factors for experiencing homelessness. The authors used program data…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, At Risk Persons, Foster Care
Clemens, Elysia V.; Sheesley, Alison P.; Moses, Sarah; Davis, Lanae – Online Submission, 2020
The Colorado Department of Human Services' Division of Child Support Services (CSS) embarked on an innovative partnership with counties to transform child support services in Colorado from a traditional enforcement approach to a family-centered multigenerational approach, commonly known as the "two-generation" or "2Gen"…
Descriptors: Children, Financial Support, Welfare Services, Family Income
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Abramovitz, Mimi; Sherraden, Margaret S. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
This article reopens the historic debate about the roles of micro and macro practice in social work and encourages the profession to find ways to achieve a better balance between case and cause in education, practice, and research. To this end, it traces the history of the case versus cause debate including conceptual frameworks for rebalancing…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Education, Caseworker Approach, Role
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Gherardi, Stacy A; Whittlesey-Jerome, Wanda K. – Children & Schools, 2018
The current environment for school social work presents great challenges and great opportunities. Amid promising shifts in programs and policies, many school social workers feel marginalized. Despite sustained efforts at definition, the role of the school social worker remains unclear to many outside the field. More important, this role is often…
Descriptors: Social Work, Pupil Personnel Services, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Talapatra, Devadrita; Roach, Andrew T.; Varjas, Kris; Houchins, David E.; Crimmins, Daniel B. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2018
Transition services can be used to forge family, school, and community partnerships and foster a successful shift to adult life for students with intellectual disabilities (ID). School psychologists can play a valuable additive role in supporting the transition process due to their graduate training in interpersonal skills; consultation services;…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Models, Intellectual Disability, Intervention
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Aguiniga, Donna M.; Bowers, Pam H. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2018
In addition to direct practice skills, social work students need to become familiar and competent with macrolevel approaches to addressing youth and transgender youth homelessness. Service-learning courses provide an effective approach for students to learn the necessary knowledge and skills. In two sections of an upper-division social work…
Descriptors: Social Work, Homeless People, Models, Service Learning
Auspos, Patricia – Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2017
Integrated data systems are often used to inform decision making at the top tiers of local or state government. Policymakers use analyses based on large numbers of integrated data system (IDS) records (from which personal identifying information has been removed) to understand the overlap between cases that receive services from different systems…
Descriptors: Prediction, Models, Data Use, Databases
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Rayner, Kelly; Bradley, Samantha; Johnson, Gemma; Mrozik, Jennifer H.; Appiah, Afua; Nagra, Maninder K. – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
The engagement of people with learning disabilities in social communication is crucial to the development of relationships with others, a sense of social inclusion and self-worth. Intensive Interaction is an approach that can help carers develop their skills to engage people with severe and profound learning disabilities in personally relevant…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Caregiver Training, Interaction, Training Methods
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Shelesky, Kristin; Weatherford, Ryan D.; Silbert, Janelle – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2016
The psychological needs of college students lead to overwhelming demand on college counseling centers' resources. In this article, we review models of case management in Higher Education including the administrative, behavioral intervention, and counseling center models. We also present a case study of the 3-year development of a counseling center…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Needs, Psychological Needs, Case Studies
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Newell, Emily M. – NACADA Journal, 2015
Through an extensive literature review, student--athlete college transition issues as well as concerns of international student-athletes are identified. Research on general student advising, developmental advising, and mentoring literature points to successful tactics for assisting domestic students, international students, and student-athletes…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, College Athletics, Transitional Programs, Literature Reviews
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McBeath, Bowen; Austin, Michael J. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
If some practitioners are more research minded than others, then promising approaches for bridging the research to practice gap may be developed by describing research-minded practitioners and examining how to locate and support them. This article follows this basic logic in providing an overview of organizational development and practitioner…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Organizational Theories, Organizational Climate, Research Utilization
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Alexanderson, Karin; Hyvönen, Ulf; Karlsson, Per-Åke; Larsson, Anne-Marie – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2014
The article describes and analyses some preliminary working methods for user involvement in child welfare. The models are based on the results of a national project in Sweden where children and young people have been involved as informants. How experiences and viewpoints from children and young people can be a source of knowledge in child welfare…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Evidence Based Practice, Models, Caseworker Approach
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Barth, Richard P.; Lee, Bethany R.; Lindsey, Michael A.; Collins, Kathryn S.; Strieder, Frederick; Chorpita, Bruce F.; Becker, Kimberly D.; Sparks, Jacqueline A. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Social work is increasingly embracing evidence-based practice (EBP) as a decision-making process that incorporates the best available evidence about effective treatments given client values and preferences, in addition to social worker expertise. Yet, social work practitioners have typically encountered challenges with the application of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Evidence, Caseworker Approach, Models
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Considine, Tom; Hollingdale, Paul; Neville, Ruth – Pastoral Care in Education, 2015
This paper briefly examines the growing interest in developing resilience in the social work curricula as it is seen as a crucial quality necessary to cope with the increasing demands of the profession. The recent research into developing resilience is dominated by a psychological model which emphasises personal qualities. It runs the risk of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Resilience (Psychology), Social Justice, Caseworker Approach
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