Critical Issues in School-based Mental Health

Evidence-based Research, Practice, and Interventions

Melissa K. Holt, Amie E. Grills

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317687399
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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School-based mental health professionals intervene daily to address a variety of student mental health concerns. From challenges that arise in the educational context to those carried over from home, from managing daily care to handling emergent traumatic events, they must be prepared for an extremely varied work life. While some of the most common issues recur with such frequency that they may seem straightforward to address, others crop up with changing student populations.

Each chapter in this volume addresses a different key topic, giving current and future professionals an overview of the most recent scholarship on the topic, and then outlining evidence-based interventions. With chapters on learning disabilities, substance abuse, bullying, internalizing and externalizing behaviors, trauma, LGBT youth and more, this book prepares school-based mental health professionals to face some of the most difficult, common, and politicized issues affecting students today.

Index

• academic difficulties 29, 31–2, 57, 165
• academic interventions 30, 38
• adolescent girls 19, 22, 77
• adolescents: health 100–4, 160–2, 173
  • psychopharmacology 79
  • sexuality 93–4, 96, 98, 100–2
  • substance use 56–9, 63
  • therapy 28
• adulthood, early 19, 93, 97–8
• African American youth 77, 83, 120, 122, 126, 135
• aggression: assessment 9
  • associations with Learning Disabilities 35
  • bullying 132, 136–9
  • child traumatic event experiences 166–7
  • correlates 8
  • dating violence 147
  • intervention 11–12, 196
  • proactive 5, 7, 14
  • types 5
• agoraphobia 18–19
• alcohol: Alcohol Use Identification Test (AUDIT) 60, 68
  • LGBTQ disparities 108
  • prenatal exposure 7
• anger 13, 97
• anti-bullying policies 111–12
• antisocial behavior 7–8, 147, 166, 199, 201
• anxiety: academic correlates 22–3
  • assessment 20–1
  • associations with Learning Disabilities 37–8
  • associations with child maltreatment 166
  • cultural considerations 23–4
  • diagnostic criteria 19
  • etiology 20
  • prevalence 19
  • prevention 21–2
• Applied Beha...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table Of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Addressing Youth Mental Health in Schools
• Externalizing Behaviors
• Internalizing Behaviors
• Learning Disabilities: Academic and Mental Health Needs
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Substance Use
• Adolescent Eating Disorders and Obesity
• Childhood Physical Health Issues in the School Context
• Adolescent Sexuality: Current Directions in Research, Health, and Risk Reduction
• Mental Health Concerns Among LGBTQ Youth in Schools
• Family Adjustment Issues
• School-Based Bullying: Definition, Prevalence, Etiology, Outcomes, and Preventive Strategies
• Interpersonal Violence (Dating and Sexual Violence)
• Effects of Childhood Traumatic Event Experiences
• Family Engagement in School-Based Mental Health
• Universal Prevention to Support Children's Mental Health in Schools
• Contributors
• Index