Critical Issues in School-based Mental Health

<p><strong>A <em>Choice Magazine</em> Outstanding Academic Title of 2017!</strong></p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p><p>Chapter 1: Introduction: Addressing Youth Mental Health in Schools by Melissa K. Holt and Amie E. Grills</p><p>Chapter 2: Externalizing Behaviors by Nicole P. Powell, John E. Lochman, Caroline L. Boxmeyer, and Meghann K. Sallee</p><p>Chapter 3: Internalizing Behaviors by Janay B. Sander, Kimberly DeBoth, and Thomas H. Ollendick</p><p>Chapter 4: Learning Disabilities: Academic and Mental Health Needs by Elizabeth Swanson and Sharon Vaughn</p><p>Chapter 5: Autism Spectrum Disorder by Zachary Rossetti</p><p>Chapter 6: Substance Use by Heidemarie Blumenthal, Lindsay S. Ham, Renee M. Cloutier, and Alexander J. Melkonian</p><p>Chapter 7: Adolescent Eating Disorders and Obesity by Stuart B. Murray, Andrea B. Goldschmidt, and Daniel Le Grange</p><p>Chapter 8: Childhood Physical Health Issues in the School Context by Paul C. McCabe and Katelyn Rose</p><p>Chapter 9: Adolescent Sexuality: Current Directions in Research, Health, and Risk-Reduction by Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck, Lucia F. O'Sullivan, Shawna Mastro, and Gillian Hewitt-Stubbs</p><p>Chapter 10: Mental Health Concerns among LGBTQ Youth in Schools by V. Paul Poteat, Ian Rivers, and Jillian R. Scheer</p><p>Chapter 11: Family Adjustment Issues by Cheryl Buehler and Kamilah B. Legette</p><p>Chapter 12: School-based Bullying: Definition, Prevalence, Etiology, Outcomes, & Preventive Strategies by Dorothy L. Espelage and Cassandra L. Colbert</p><p>Chapter 13: Interpersonal Violence (Dating and Sexual Violence) by Andra Teten Tharp</p><p>Chapter 14: Effects of Childhood Traumatic Event Experiences by Joseph R. Cohen and Carla Kmett Danielson</p><p>Chapter 15: Family Engagement in School-Based Mental Health by Eleanor Castine, Sean Flanagan, and Kimberly A. S. Howard</p><p>Chapter 16: Universal Prevention to Support Children’s Mental Health in Schools by Keith C. Herman, Wendy M. Reinke, Aaron M. Thompson, and Reuben Faloughi</p><p>Index</p>