Emerging Trends in School Social Work Practice - Responding to Rapid Change in Educational Ecosystems

Emerging Trends in School Social Work Practice focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing school social workers. After the first chapter introduces emerging trends in society, education, social work, and school social work, the remaining 13 chapters describe the school social work trends through the lenses of 50 school social work practitioners and academic scholars working in partnership. The book''s editors, former school social workers and current social work scholars, worked with a national team of authors to write about the new landscape for this micro-mezzo-macro career. The information in this text will help school social workers prepare, plan, and develop their existing knowledge into accelerated skills needed to meet these emerging trends.