Education, Training, Case, and Cause: A Descriptive Study of School Social Work.

EDUCATION of social workers; COUNSELING; EMOTIONS; HIGH schools; RESEARCH methodology; HEALTH policy; MENTAL health; STATISTICAL sampling; SCHOOL health services; SELF-control; SOCIAL work education; SURVEYS; OCCUPATIONAL roles; SOCIAL support; DESCRIPTIVE statistics

School social workers (SSWs) play a vital role in district-level education, but ambiguity within our collective understanding of school social work is a pervasive problem. Clarity of the SSW role is important for communities of place (schools), practice (SSWs), and circumstance (consumers of school social work). This research recruited and surveyed 52 SSWs in a focal state to contextualize their practice domains and professional capacity. Findings broadly pertain to the actual and idealized education and training of SSWs, as well as their case-level and cause/system-level job functions. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications for policy, practice, and future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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