Collaborative Practice: School and Human Service Partnerships

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Tourse, Mooney, and their contributors argue that schools alone can no longer meet the complex needs of children and adolescents. The overwhelming needs of school children require that schools institute massive coordinated and collaborative efforts among various disciplines and agencies. The authors propose a restructuring of schools and social service systems to respond to the needs for interprofessional collaboration. While they focus primarily on the collaboration of social work and education, they look beyond that to relationships with other allied disciplines in public schools and explore collaborative linkages with nursing, law, counseling, pastoral counseling, and other agents of society. The collection culminates with an examination of the realities of interprofessional collaboration in urban and suburban communities. This is an important guide for researchers, policy makers, and professional educators involved with school reform and systems change in the United States.

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.,.".Representing a range of expertise and experience, the individually-authored articles make it clear that interprofessional work is more understandable and doable when practitioners keep their eyes on the goal of benefit to children and their families....This is a wonderful addition to the literature of professional education, school change, and human development."-Laura Pires-Hester Program Officer, De-Witt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund
"A significant collection of real-life hands-on experience from caring and knowledgeable professionals"-Joy Dryfoos Author, Full Service Schools and Safe Passage
.,."it contains highly useful information for school and agency administrators who are interested in (or are already in the process of) establishing school-community partnerships. It is sure to be of special interest to school social workers who may be position to initiate school-community colaboration. Professors of education and social work may utilize the book to introduce their students to this relevant and exciting topic."-Administration In Social Work
...it contains highly useful information for school and agency administrators who are interested in (or are already in the process of) establishing school-community partnerships. It is sure to be of special interest to school social workers who may be position to initiate school-community colaboration. Professors of education and social work may utilize the book to introduce their students to this relevant and exciting topic.-Administration In Social Work
..."it contains highly useful information for school and agency administrators who are interested in (or are already in the process of) establishing school-community partnerships. It is sure to be of special interest to school social workers who may be position to initiate school-community colaboration. Professors of education and social work may utilize the book to introduce their students to this relevant and exciting topic."-Administration In Social Work

Author Bio

ROBBIE W. C. TOURSE is Director of Field Education, Adjunct Assistant Professor, and Coordinator of the Worcester/Paxton Off-Site Program at Boston College Graduate School of Social Work./e JEAN F. MOONEY is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Boston College working in the area of Teacher Education.