Technology-Assisted Delivery of School Based Mental Health Services: Defining School Social Work for the 21st Century

by Pahwa; Bhavna

• ISBN13: 9780789017338
• ISBN10: 0789017334
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-04-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Learn how computer technology is helping school social workers collect information and synthesize it into meaningful data! Technology-Assisted Delivery of School Based Mental Health Services: Defining School Social Work for the 21st Century explores the many technological advances in school social work practices. This book also illustrates the ways technology is being used to manage and evaluate services provided by school social workers. This vital book contains: ways to use new technology to prevent and treat mental health issues in children through safe and effective learning experiences information on how biofeedback can be used to empower children to become more aware of their physical and emotional reactions to environmental stimuli an annotated bibliography of Internet sites covering topics and issues frequently encountered by social workers examinations of exciting software applications, including BARN, From Mad to Worse, Conflict Management, and Smart Team methods of online data collection for use in school social work practices and more!

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
Computer Simulation and Virtual Reality: Enhancing the Practice of School Social Work	5	(26)
Paul R. Smokowski
Katie Hartung
Using Biofeedback to Enhance Interventions in Schools	31	(26)
Tish Matuszek
Joan R. Rycraft
Bringing Technology to School: An Online Resource Guide for the School Social Worker	57	(28)
Elissa D. Giffords
Online Mentoring: Programs and Suggested Practices as of February 2001	85	(26)
Jayne Cravens
The School Success Profile Online	111	(28)
Gary L. Bowen
Jack M. Richman
Natasha K. Bowen
Andrew Broughton
Technology and School Social Work Services: Introducing Technology in an Alternative School	139	(22)
Bhavana A. Pahwa
School Social Work Information Systems (SSWIS): A Relational Database for School Social Workers	161	(16)
Mark E. Redmond
Index	177