Students’ growing mental health needs have resulted in more teachers delivering school-based psychosocial interventions. But we know little about how effective these interventions are to improve students behavioral, emotional, or social functioning. Professor Cynthia Franklin, doctoral student Anao Zhang and colleagues conducted a systematic review of existing studies on the… read more
Fall 2017
Child abuse prevention is working in Texas
Texas families who receive child maltreatment prevention services do not have a subsequent child protective services case, according to a new report from the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing. It is the first report to show that receiving services from Texas child maltreatment prevention programs prevents child abuse… read more
Voices from East Austin
Spending a week crammed in a small house in East Austin with eight other people may not be an ideal Spring Break for most UT students. And yet, this was the choice of social work undergraduates Cassandara Najera, Sarah Hudson, and Renee Palma. This spring, the three of them signed up for… read more
