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out in June. He also had a presentation accepted for CSWE in Denver with Professor Carol Tosone, Ph.D., LCSW, of New York University on distinguishing a developmental and progressive model of educational competencies for clinical social workers at M.S.W., D.S.W. and Ph.D. levels. Helping Children by Helping Families
The second edition of Drisko’s book Evidence-based Practice in Clinical Social Work, co-authored with Melissa Grady M.S.W. ’96, Ph.D. ’04, came out in June.
Jane Nielson. Together, they reviewed 5,485 publications, narrowed down to just 17 high-quality outcome studies on play therapy. The team found varied results, but overall play therapy met standards as an “empirically supported therapy” with generally good impact across several common child concerns. To share these results, the team prepared
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an article that was published in June 2019 in Research on Social Work Practice. The team will also present on this topic at the Council on Social Work Education [CSWE] conference to be held in Denver in October 2019. The second edition of Drisko’s book Evidence-based Practice in Clinical Social Work, co-authored with Melissa Grady, M.S.W. ’96, Ph.D. ’04, came
S M I T H COL L E G E SCHO O L FO R SO CIAL WO RK
Marsha Kline Pruett believes the most effective way to support children is to strengthen the family constellations around them. That is the underlying motivation for all of her current research projects. “My ultimate goal is to improve the world for children by promoting their well-being,” said Kline Pruett, associate dean of academic affairs and Maconda Brown O’Connor Professor. “I’m interested in the ways in which families and the organizations they are involved in function well—or don’t.” Kline Pruett, M.S.L., Ph.D., ABPP, is involved in at least four research projects focused on that topic with colleagues both on and off campus. Working with a team, she is analyzing data collected since 2004 for the Supporting Father Involvement program, an evidence-based intervention that aims to reduce child abuse and family violence. With qualitative and quantitative data and video recordings from over 1,500 families, there are many different directional deep dives the research can take. The program has been launched with groups of men in homeless shelters, among prison populations and is in use in California and Massachusetts, as well as other countries, including Malta, England and Canada. “Our goal is to train people to implement it in a variety of contexts and have them take it as their own and shape it,” Kline Pruett said. The program can be adapted to be sensitive and responsive to a local community’s culture and needs, and, by maintaining fidelity to certain parameters, also remain evidence-based. With a background in family law and policy, another project has Kline Pruett consulting with and evaluating
