Elementary School Social Work Analysis

The article called Elementary School Social Work by Cami Cooper from the book called ‘Days in the Lives of Social Workers’ by Linda May Grobman. The article introduced a full-time employed social worker that work as a consultant at the Washington Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona. For example the social work would answer their question from a phone call that parent asks about their child to a local consultant. Being a part of a local consultant is necessary for social work to make sure that children are not mentally ill from going to school. There is a textbook called ‘Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare Critical Thinking Perspective by Karen Kirst-Ashmen. Introduce about the school social work roles like for being a consultant
that they need to be specialized in knowledge and being expert for providing information, help, and advice. This school social work role applies to the article from a book called ‘Days in the Lives of Social Workers’ because it introduces the social worker that try to be consultant for students that have behavior issues. The behavior issues involve in students from an elementary school that is mentally ill. The counselor tries to resolve the behavioral issues by giving advice or information to help the students and parent to solve the issues.