Transforming School Mental
Health Services: Population-Based Approaches to Promoting the Competency
and Wellness of Children
Beth Doll
Jack Cummings
Every student is part of a bigger picture.
Mental health affects
all aspects of children’s learning and development, including behavior,
social-emotional wellness, resiliency, aggression, mental illness, and
academic achievement. Effective prevention-focused school mental health
services address the needs of the entire student population as well as
those of individual students.
This new book from
NASP provides a roadmap to the provision of population-based school mental
health services with an emphasis on strategies that are currently available,
can be put into practice immediately, and have evidence supporting their
effectiveness. Population-based approaches to mental health services:
- Focus on the full student enrollment of a building
- Create data-based portraits of the mental health needs of all students
- Recognize patterns and trends in the data that suggest a particular source
of risk or common need
- Use data to plan mental health services that fit the unique strengths and needs
of the school
- Implement interventions that are class-, school-, or district-wide to address
common mental health needs and
- Engage families, community members, and students in promoting the mental health
and well-being of all students
Each chapter will have
a corresponding handout for families and educators, available for download
on the NASP website.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Why Population-Based Services are
Essential for School Mental Health and How to Make Them Happen in Your
School, Beth Doll and Jack Cummings
Population-Based Assessment
2. Social and Behavioral Epidemiology: Population-Based
Problem Identification and Monitoring Rick Jay Short and William Strein
3. Assessing School Risk and Protective
Factors, Jean Baker
Population-Based Intervention
4. Partnering With Families to Enhance
Students’ Mental Health, Sandra L. Christenson, Elizabeth M. Whitehouse,
and Gretchen R. VanGetson
5. School-Wide Approaches to Behavior
Problems, George Bear
6. Response to Intervention: A School-Wide
Approach for Promoting Academic Wellness of All Students, Rebecca S. Martínez and
Leah M. Nellis
7. Social and Emotional Learning: A
School-Wide Approach to Intervention for Socialization, Friendship Problems,
and More, Kenneth W. Merrell, Barbara A. Gueldner,
and Oanh K. Tran
8. School-Wide Approaches to Intervention
for School Aggression and Bullying, Susan M. Swearer,
Dorothy L. Espelage, Kelly Brey Love, and
Whitney Kingsbury
9. School-Wide Approaches to Prevention
and Intervention of Depression and Suicidal Behaviors, James J. Mazza and
William M. Reynolds
Policy and Evaluation
10. School-Wide Approaches to Addressing
Barriers to Learning and Teaching, Howard S. Adelman and Linda Taylor
11. Evaluating Quality and Effectiveness
of Population-Based Services, Bonnie K. Nastasi and John Hitchcock
12. Concluding Chapter (TBA), Jack
Cummings and Beth Doll
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