Interdisciplinary Coleadership of High School Groups for Dropout Prevention: Practice Issues.

SCHOOL dropout prevention; SCHOOL social work; URBAN schools; URBAN education; SOCIAL workers; MINORITY youth; MULTIPLE psychotherapy

An inner-city alternative public high school developed a model of teamwork between teacher and graduate social work intern designed to prevent dropout. This model provides a framework for programmatic responses to problems of school dropout among inner-city minority youths and also furnishes new opportunities for intern training in school social work. The development of the interdisciplinary partnership is described in this article. After several years of experience and resulting teacher and social work intern input, the model was evaluated with respect to qualitative results, obstacles to success, gains; and articulation between intern placement and graduate school of social work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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