“…Over the past century, the school social work profession has evolved from conducting home visits and linking the student, home, and school to a clinical casework model in which individual students already manifesting social, emotional, or behavioral problems are served by school social workers (Kelly et al, 2010). However, within the past 15 years, there has been a shift in practice models, policy, and research from a clinical orientation to a perspective that focused at least equally on primary prevention on factors influencing the academic, social, and emotional functioning of individuals (Kelly et al, 2010).…”