School Behavioral Health: Interconnecting Comprehensive School Mental Health and Positive Behavior Support

This ebook, School Behavioral Health: Interconnecting Comprehensive School Mental Health and Positive Behavior Support (PDF), examines the prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems in youth and the implications of short or low-quality mental health services available for them. It describes aspects of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and school mental health (SMH) that work together to form a comprehensive service delivery model called the Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF). School behavioral health (SBH) describes SMH and PBIS working together, as in the ISF. The book examines the perspectives of key stakeholders through a series of research forums, during which participants identified critical themes for the advancement of SBH in South Carolina and the southeast region of the United States. Chapters address central themes of school behavioral health from these forums, such as collaboration, schoolwide approaches, quality of services, and support for specific populations, including military families and youth involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. The ebook addresses barriers to providing behavioral health services at school and recommendations from key stakeholders for advancing SBH along these critical dimensions. This volume is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as practitioners, clinicians, and therapists across such interrelated disciplines as clinical child and school psychology, educational policy and politics, school counseling, family studies, social work, public health, juvenile justice, child and adolescent psychiatry, and child welfare and well-being services.

NOTE: This only includes the ebook School Behavioral Health: Interconnecting Comprehensive School Mental Health and Positive Behavior Support in PDF.