In March 2020, as American PreK-12 schools shut down and moved into online learning in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, there was little information about how school social workers (SSWs) were responding to the crisis. This study used a national online survey to understand how SSWs (N = 1,275) adapted their school practice during the initial 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Findings from this study indicate that SSWs made swift and (relatively) smooth adaptations of their traditional practice role to the new context, though not without reporting considerable professional stress and personal challenges doing so. SSWs reported significant concerns about their ability to deliver effective virtual school social work services given their students’ low motivation and lack of engagement with online learning, as well as significant worries about how their students were faring during the first months of the pandemic. Implications for school social work practice, policy, and research are discussed.

2020 年 3 月，随着美国 PreK-12 学校关闭并转向在线学习以应对全球 COVID-19 大流行，关于学校社会工作者 (SSW) 如何应对危机的信息很少。本研究使用全国在线调查来了解 SSW（N= 1,275）在 2020 年最初的 COVID-19 危机期间调整了他们的学校做法。这项研究的结果表明，SSW 将他们的传统实践角色迅速（相对）顺利地适应了新环境，尽管他们报告了相当大的职业压力和个人挑战。SSW 报告说，鉴于学生的积极性低、缺乏在线学习参与度，以及他们对学生在大流行的头几个月的表现的严重担忧，他们对提供有效的虚拟学校社会工作服务的能力表示严重担忧。讨论了对学校社会工作实践、政策和研究的影响。