Multisystem Skills and Interventions in School Social Work Practice

This book covers multisystem interventions that work on all levels, from school to family to community agencies to the policy level. Five sections and 45 chapters explore strategies for areas of current challenge, including:

• Curbing aggressive behavior in childhood
• Improving attendance in at-risk children in elementary school
• Empowering families through cooperative preschool education
• Working with teenagers with ADHD
• Preventing youth suicide
• Participating in a traumatic event debriefing
• Preventing substance abuse in middle school