Category: Research That Matters

Effective Interventions to Help Students With Body...

Posted by Mary Thomas | Nov 27, 2019 | Interventions, Research That Matters, Tier 2, Tier 3, Tools for Practice | 0 |

Trauma-Focused CBT For Youth: A SSWN Research Brief

by Mary Beuckelaere | Dec 5, 2019 | Research That Matters, Tier 3, Tools for Practice | 0 |

We’re excited to share a rigorous randomized trial comparing trauma-focused CBT for adolescents in a community setting to treatment as usual. Here is a RB by a school social worker and current Loyola student, Ms. Mary Beuckelaere, drawing on her work on helping adolescents at her high school placement deal with complex trauma.

Effective Interventions to Help Students With Body Image Issues: A SSWN Research Brief

by Mary Thomas | Nov 27, 2019 | Interventions, Research That Matters, Tier 2, Tier 3, Tools for Practice | 0 |

The meta-analysis study (N=62) found that interventions led to small but reliable improvements in body image, but insignificant effects on beauty internalization and social comparison tendencies. Previous reviews had found larger effect sizes in all three outcome areas but had high risk of bias across and within studies. The study identified numerous change techniques (noted above in the text box) that are effective and could be used in future interventions, and also several that are contra-indicated: 1) self-esteem enhancement (cautionary, needed more studies), 2) discussing physical fitness and 3) discussing client’s individual differences (both #2 & #3 potentially due to focus on weight and appearance).

SSWN Top 5: Understanding and Supporting the Needs of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Students

by Cary Klemmer | Nov 13, 2019 | Reflections on Practice, Research That Matters, Tools for Practice, Top 5 | 0 |

Adolescence is a profoundly important time in human life that can set trajectories of health and wellness throughout the lifetime (Sawyer et al., 2012), and creating safe and affirming schools is an important starting point to make a positive change for transgender and gender nonbinary people in society at large. My dissertation examines the schooling experiences of transgender and gender nonbinary students and offers evidence-based recommendations on how to create affirming schools for this youth demographic. Here are my top 5 recommendations on how to do this.

Trauma-Informed Care in Schools: What We Know (And Still Don’t Know), And Why That Matters for Marginalized Youth In K-12

by Michael Kelly | Nov 10, 2019 | Interventions, Reflections on Practice, Research That Matters, Tier 1, Tools for Practice | 0 |

This year on SSWN (and our sister social media platform SSWNetwork) we’re going to delve into a complicated and we believe necessary conversation about trauma-informed care (TIC), racial inequity, and evidence-based practice (EBP). These three concepts, themselves worthy of extensive study and exploration, are coming together in dynamic and powerful ways as school clinicians, researchers, and K-12 schools reckon with how to do trauma-informed care in school contexts.

SSWN Open Access Project: 21 Free Measures of Risk and Protective Factors for Youth

by Natasha Bowen | Nov 3, 2019 | Research That Matters, Resources We Love, Tools for Practice | 1 |

To be responsive at SSWN to the comments from our readers, we will be sharing free, brief, accessible assessments for many issues school social workers encounter in their schools. We are starting with 21 assessments for a range of potential intervention targets, such as students’ perceptions of their school experiences, depression, social support, stress, and risky behaviors.

SSWN Book Club: The Solutions Are In Our Schools

by Michael Kelly | Oct 29, 2019 | Interventions, Research That Matters, Resources We Love | 0 |

Schools can be places of solutions, strengths, and successes. School- based mental health professionals (school social workers, school counselors, and school psychologists) have numerous ways to harness the solutions that are already happening in their schools. This 2nd Edition of SFBT in Schools offers research and how-to examples for the busy school clinician who are trying to make their schools more solution-focused.