A Renewed Commitment for Leadership in School Social Work Practice

Interprofessional leadership training in MCH social work.

The need to train health social workers to practice interprofessionally is an essential goal of social work education. Although most health social workers have exposure to multidisciplinary practice within their field work, few social work education programs incorporate interprofessional learning as an integrated component of both course work and field experiences (McPherson, Headrick, & Moss, ...

Study of School Leadership: Working Paper - Measuring Leadership Practice

Comments View on the CPRE website. " If you ask a manager what he does, he will most likely tell you that he plans, organizes, coordinates , and controls. Then watch what he does. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to these four words. " (Henry Mintzberg, 1975) While Minztberg's studies have focused on the private sector, his quote captures in part the complexity of studying le...

Social Work in Disaster, a Case Report

Introduction: Natural disasters cause many problems for society. Children are one of the most vulnerable groups that could face severe mental illness and are often separated from their family members and primary caregivers in this situation. Therefore, professional interventions are necessary to reduce the consequence of such situations for children. The purpose of this article is to report a s...

Bases of social power, leadership styles, and organizational commitment.

Affective organizational commitment reflects the extent to which organizational members are loyal and willing to work toward organizational objectives (Meyer & Allen, 1997). In particular, affective organizational commitment holds very important implications at all organizational levels (e.g., turnover rates, performance, and citizenship behavior). Whereas previous research has evinced the posi...

An Ecological Approach for Social Work Practice