About the Author

Catheleen Jordan (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, USA; MSSW, University of Texas at Arlington, USA) holds the Cheryl Milkes Moore Professorship in Mental Health at The University of Texas at Arlington, USA, School of Social Work, where she has taught since 1985. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Social Workers-Texas, where she was president from 2007 to 2009. Cynthia Franklin (PhD, MSSW, University of Texas at Arlington, USA) is Stiernberg/Spencer Family Professor in Mental Health and Assistant Dean for the Ph.D. program in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She also holds a faculty fellow appointment at the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk in the Department of Special Education. Professor Franklin has more than 150 publications in the professional literature and is a world-renowned scholar in school mental health.