The growing understanding of the deleterious effects of childhood trauma has led policymakers to encourage the integration of trauma-informed system approaches into educational settings. The National Childhood Traumatic Stress Network has created a framework that integrates trauma-responsive school policies, practices, and programs at each tier of…

Research on the experiences of minoritized faculty shows that they face disproportionate challenges to professional support and career advancement. While broader research on faculty experiences highlights these inequities, program coordination is a distinct role further hindering minoritized faculty experiences. Program coordination entails roles…

Dramatic rises in levels of anxiety, stress, and depression in college students have been observed over the past decade and is so pervasive that it has been deemed the College Student Mental Health Crisis (CSMHC). A number of experts have argued that much of this crisis can be attributed to students' overall lack of basic knowledge of emotions and…

RAND researchers present results from a spring 2019 survey of a nationally representative sample of kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) public school teachers about their approaches to supporting students' social and emotional learning (SEL) and the factors that might influence those approaches. The authors explore teachers' SEL practices,…

Working on What Works (WOWW) is a solution-oriented classroom management intervention. Following an outline of Berg and Shilts' WOWW programme in the United States, this paper reviews and evaluates WOWW, which has been implemented as a classroom intervention strategy in a Scottish local authority since 2007. Qualitative analysis of the comments of…

The 2007 Aaron Rosen Lecture was presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, January 12, 2007, in San Francisco, CA. The lecture begins by describing the gap between what is known about efficacious treatments and other evidence-based practices on the one hand and the services that are provided in actual…