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Francis J. Turner [deceased] was Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. He practiced in the fields of child welfare, family counseling, and mental health, and published a range of written and edited texts. He served as editor of the International Social Work Journal.


Cynthia Franklin is the Stiernberg/Spencer Family Professor in Mental Health in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas in Austin. Franklin also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Dell Medical School and faculty fellowships at the Humanities Institute and the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk in the Department of Special Education. She was named one of the 100 most Influential contemporary social work faculty for the overall impact of her more than 200 publications. Franklin was honored with the Gary Lee Shaffer award for academic contributions to the field of school social work and

was also inducted into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Franklin received the designation “Social Work Pioneer” from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for her unique dedication and commitment to improve social and human conditions. She was also recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Social Work at Oxford University Press and the author or editor of several texts including Clinical Assessment for Social Workers, Fifth Edition and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Schools.



Catheleen Jordan is Professor and 2017 National Association bof Social Work Pioneer. She was awarded the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Social Workers-Texas where she was Texas State President from 2007-2009. Before going into academia full time, Dr. Jordan worked with Child Protective Services in Texas and with Court Appointed Special Advocates in California where she received her PhD at the University of California-Berkeley in 1986. Her publications include Clinical Assessment for Social Workers, Fifth Edition and Introduction to Family Social Work, Fourth Edition. She serves as consulting editor on Children and Schools.