Evidence-Based School Mental Health Services Affect Education, Emotion Regulation Training, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy /

• Main Author: Macklem, Gayle L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Pediatrics.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Social policy.; Social work.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Social Work.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Educational Psychology.; Social Policy.

The challenges of providing mental health services to school children are numerous and diverse, ranging from staffing shortages to insufficient funding to family resistance to administrative indifference. Yet with the U.S. Surgeon General estimating that approximately 20% of young people display sig...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Tables
• Specific Group Activities and Exercises
• The Challenge of Providing Mental Health Services in Schools
• Evidence-based Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 Mental Health Interventions in Schools
• Strengthening School-Counseling Interventions
• Affect Education at Tiers 1, 2, and 3
• Importance of Emotion Regulation Training for Children and Adolescents
• Emotion Regulation Training at Tiers 1, 2, and 3
• Support for the Use of CBT in Schools
• Preparing Young and/or Disabled Children to Benefit from CBT in School-based Settings
• CBT in Schools
• Sustainability, Current Programs and a Look to the Future
• References.