Ebook: Handbook of School Mental Health Advancing Practice and Research

With the growing challenges that children confront daily, schools must be prepared at any given moment to intervene on their behalf. And school professionals must be well trained to attend not only to the most routine mental health needs of its students but also to respond quickly and effectively to significant traumatic events. All this in addition to addressing demands to narrow the achievement gap, increase the rate of school success, and lower the dropout rate.

Along with an introductory chapter that focuses on advancing school-based mental health practice and research, the Handbook of School Mental Health addresses a broad range of issues, including how to:

• Build and enhance collaborative approaches among the various individual, group, system, and agency stakeholders.
• Ensure best practices are used in all systems of care; provide effective training for all professionals; introduce strength-based approaches to assessment in schools; and facilitate the implementation of evidence-based practices.
• Prevent and effectively manage crises and violence in schools while addressing the unique ethical, cultural, and legal challenges of school mental health.

This volume is an essential resource for the diverse coalition of school mental health staff and advocates including educators, social workers, school psychologists, school counselors and other professionals who work with and are concerned with the well-being of children.

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With the growing challenges that children confront daily, schools must be prepared at any given moment to intervene on their behalf. And school professionals must be well trained to attend not only to the most routine mental health needs of its students but also to respond quickly and effectively to significant traumatic events. All this in addition to addressing demands to narrow the achievement gap, increase the rate of school success, and lower the dropout rate.

Along with an introductory chapter that focuses on advancing school-based mental health practice and research, the Handbook of School Mental Health addresses a broad range of issues, including how to:

• Build and enhance collaborative approaches among the various individual, group, system, and agency stakeholders.
• Ensure best practices are used in all systems of care; provide effective training for all professionals; introduce strength-based approaches to assessment in schools; and facilitate the implementation of evidence-based practices.
• Prevent and effectively manage crises and violence in schools while addressing the unique ethical, cultural, and legal challenges of school mental health.

This volume is an essential resource for the diverse coalition of school mental health staff and advocates including educators, social workers, school psychologists, school counselors and other professionals who work with and are concerned with the well-being of children.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
History of School-Based Mental Health Services in the United States....Pages 11-22
Toward a Comprehensive Policy Vision for Mental Health in Schools....Pages 23-43
Effective Advocacy for School-Based Mental Health Programs....Pages 45-59
Mobilizing Research to Inform a School Mental Health Initiative....Pages 61-72
Overcoming the Challenges of Funding School Mental Health Programs....Pages 73-86
Mental Health in Schools....Pages 89-106
Enhancing Collaboration within and across Disciplines to Advance Mental Health Programs in Schools....Pages 107-118
The Community Schools Approach....Pages 119-133
Partnering with Families in Expanded School Mental Health Programs....Pages 135-148
System, Agency, and Stakeholder Collaboration to Advance Mental Health Programs in Schools....Pages 149-162
School-Based Mental Health Services in Urban Communities....Pages 165-178
The Mental Health for Immigrants Program....Pages 179-190
School-Based Mental Health on a United States Army Installation....Pages 191-202
Serving the Most Severe of Serious Emotionally Disturbed Students in School Settings....Pages 203-222
Children with Special Health Care Needs in School....Pages 223-235
School Mental Health in Systems of Care....Pages 239-256
Training for Effective Practice in the Schools....Pages 257-273
Continuous Quality Improvement and Evaluation of Expanded School Mental Health Programs....Pages 275-284
Strength-Based Approaches to Assessment in Schools....Pages 285-299
Facilitating the Implementation of Evidence-Based Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Efforts in Schools....Pages 301-318
Preventing and Addressing Crises and Violence-Related Problems in Schools....Pages 321-334
Achieving Generalization in School-Based Mental Health....Pages 335-348
Cultural Sensitivity, Relevance, and Competence in School Mental Health....Pages 349-362
Addressing Unique Ethical and Legal Challenges in Expanded School Mental Health....Pages 363-374
Back Matter....Pages 375-386