[SSWN Newsletter] How has your practice been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis?

Being a school social worker during this pandemic can feel torturous when you’re unable to be a physical presence for students who have relied on that rapport. In the mix of all the triage, supervisors are still trying to figure out how to support the next generation of school social workers and many of our interns are feeling worried about their preparedness.

The opening quotation from one of the co-authors, Laura Porter, must now be seen as a case of misplaced confidence, and a stark reminder that researchers cannot know in advance precisely how any work they produce might be (mis)used or (mis)interpreted. In the case of the ACEs model and in particular its main methodological feature - the ‘ACE score’ - the authors are unequivocal that it should only be used for the purposes for which it was created, and that misusing ACE studies or the ACE score can have seriously harmful consequences.