The School Services Sourcebook: A Guide for School-Based Professionals

The School Services Source Book, Third Edition is filled with evidence informing practices for school mental health professionals--social workers, counsellors, psychologists, and other student support professionals. This practical and comprehensive book is designed purposefully to communicate the nuts and bolts of delivering effective behavioral health interventions while at the same time integrating information on how to be responsive to diversity, equity and inclusion in practice. Ready access to knowledge and skills needed for how to practice effectively with behavioral health and neurodevelopmental conditions, traumatized populations, school safety issues; dropout prevention, crisis intervention, how to use groupwork, and parental and family interventions are covered along with other essential topics. Readers will learn proven practices for helping students with depression and anxiety, trauma, suicide prevention and assessments, substance use, child abuse, school violence and safety threats, psychopharmacology, ethics and legal issues, work with BIPOC populations, and important policy and macro issues in easy-to -read chapters. A concise, user friendly format orients readers to each issue with a Getting Started Section, then moves smoothy to What We Know, What We Can Do, Tools and Practice Examples, and Key Points to Remember. Several Case studies and original videos demonstrate practice approaches. Quick reference tables, charts, web, and further learning resources make it easy to continue to improve knowledge and skills. Each chapter has been crafted by experts in the field with the ultimate goal of giving school-based practitioners the information they need to deliver effective services in schools.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments Contributors Part I: Roles and Context for Specialized Instructional Support Personnel Section I: Frameworks and Ethics for Improving School Services 1. Roles of Different Professionals Within a Multitiered System of Supports Framework Michael S. Kelly 2. Functional Behavioral Assessment Kevin J. Filter, Michelle E. Alvarez, and Kimberly A. Zammitt 3.Establishing an Ethical Practice in School Mental Health Nic Dibble and James Raines 4. Reflections on Implicit Bias G. Lawrence Farmer and Kandra Knowles 5. Social-Emotional Learning Aaron M. Thompson, Anna M. Kim, and Tanya Weigand 6. Collaboration With Teachers and Other School Professionals Annahita Ball 7. Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being Maria Hu and Stephen Hydon Part II: Trauma, Behavioral Health, and Neurodevelopmental Interventions Section II: Trauma Practices and TraumaInformed Schools 8. Trauma-Responsive Practice in Schools Tory Cox and Meg A. Walkley 9. Students With Adverse Childhood Experiences Tara Powell and Jenna Muller 10. Students Who Have Experienced Trauma Cheryl Lanktree 11. Students Who Have Experienced Physical or Sexual Abuse Robert M. Ortega Section III: Behavioral Health and Neurodevelopmental Interventions 12. Mediating Mental Health Diagnoses in Schools Settings Susan Stone 13. Students With Disruptive Behavior Disorders Katherine L. Montgomery and Tammy Linseisen 14. Students With Anxiety Disorders Kristina Conroy, Christopher Georgiadis, and Jonathan S. Comer 15. Effective Interventions for Adolescents With Depression Jacqueline Corcoran 16. Suicide Assessment Hannah S. Szlyk and Courtney Hutchison 17. Suicide Prevention Jonathan B. Singer and Jessica Chock-Goldman 18. Students With Eating Disorders Sarah Mermelstein 19. Students With ADHD Martell L. Teasley and Bonita R. Teasley 20. Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder Michelle Ballan and Sarah Grosser 21. Substance Use Prevention and Intervention Audrey Hang Hai and Ai Bo 22. Contemporary Issues in Psychopharmacological Treatment for Child and Adolescent Mental and Emotional Challenges Kia J. Bentley, Kathryn S. Collins, and Molly Chinoy Part III: School Engagement, Safety, and Dropout Prevention Section IV: School Engagement, Attendance, and Dropout Prevention 23. Expansive Ecological Model for Attendance and Engagement Interventions Samantha Guz and Sireen Irsheid 24. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for Students Who Are at Risk Cynthia Franklin, Katharine Sucher, Johnny Kim, and Stephen Tripodi 25. Resources and Programs for Pregnant and Parenting Students Mary Beth Harris Section V: Developing and Sustaining Safe Schools 26. School Safety and Climate in Evolving Contexts Rami Benbenishty and Ron Avi Astor 27. Current Approaches to School Safety: Integrating Resources, Capacity, and Programs Heather M. Reynolds, Ron Avi Astor, Kate R. Watson, and Roxana Marachi 28. Improving School Climate Gordon Capp and Ron Avi Astor 29. Multi-Tiered Trauma Focused Interventions for Safer Schools Marleen Wong, Vivien Villaverde, and Pamela Vona 30. School Disciplinary Practices and Staff-Student Relationships David R. Dupper 31. School Threat Assessment Dewey G. Cornell and Emily Warren 32. Gang-Involved Youth in Schools: A Comprehensive Approach to Support Robert A. Hernandez, Lauren M. Garcia, and Margaret Y. W. Tam 33. Addressing and Preventing Bullying and Sexual Harassment in K-12 Schools Dorothy L. Espelage and Jun Sung Hong Part IV: Crisis Intervention, Group Work, and Parental and Family Resources Section VI: Crisis Intervention Methods and Resources 34. A Solution-Focused Approach to Crisis Intervention Xiao Ding, Weiwen Zeng, Cynthia Franklin, and Jack Nowicki 35. Natural Disasters, Pandemics, and Other Crises Tara Powell and Karen Knox 36. School-Based Interventions Following Violent Crises Jun Sung Hong, Isak Kim, Jungup Lee, and Dorothy L. Espelage 37. Best Practice Grief Work With Students in the Schools Linda Goldman Section VII: Designing and Facilitating Groups in Schools 38. Groups With Adolescents Ondine Gros 39. Groups With Children: Promoting Social Competence Craig Winston LeCroy 40. Social Skills Groups: Helping Vulnerable Students With Communication Skills Joan D. Landguth and Mary Beth Harris Section VIII: Parental Involvement and Family Resources 41. Strategies to Promote and Support Parent and Guardian Involvement in Schools Hilary D. Joyce, Amber Lasseigne, Hilary Ward, Karen Sterling, and Dawn Anderson-Butcher 42. Family Services in Schools: A Solution-Focused Approach Linda Metcalf 43. Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness and Their Families Hadass Moore 44. Welcoming Crisis Migrants to School Communities Kerri Evans and Andrew Reynolds 45. Home Visits With Families Tiffany Gholson Part V: Best Practices for Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Section IX: Practice With Students and Families of Color and Other Marginalized Groups 46. Defying the Legacy of Racialized Oppression in K-12 Education in the 21st Century Terence D. Fitzgerald 47. Research and Intervention Practice on School-Based Mental Health Services for Black Male Students James Green and Waldo E. Johnson Jr. 48. Working With First Nations Students and Families Dorie J. Gilbert and Jennifer L. Hopson 49. Latinx Students and Families and Refugees Jorge Delva, Dawn Belkin Martinez, and Rocio Calvo 50. Asian Students and Families Mo Yee Lee, Yitong Xin, Chang Liu, and Yao Wang 51. Working With Students of Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, and Gender Expressions Diane E. Elze Part VI: Accountability and Macro Practices in Schools Section X: Policy and Macro Interventions 52. Advocating for Evidence Informed Change With School Stakeholders Stacy A. Gherardi and Erica Warshawer 53. Evaluating Intervention and Program Effectiveness Beth Gerlach, Monica Faulkner, and Xiao Ding 54. Implementation Science in Schools Katherine L. Montgomery and Elizabeth Connors 55. Understanding and Accessing Public School Funding for Student Support Services in the Post-Covid Context David Osher, Kelly Wells, Sophia Arredondo, and Melissa M. Chavez 56. Every Student Succeeds and Other Federal Policies Sarah Anne Eckert and John W. Sipple 57. Where Do We Go From Here? Mental Health and Evidence-Based Practice Paula Allen-Meares and Katherine L. Montgomery Index

About the Author :
Dr Cynthia Franklin, LCSW-S is the Stiernberg/Spencer Family Professor in Mental Health in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Franklin is an international expert on solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) and school social work and school mental health services. Her career has been devoted to advances in practice and research on SFBT with the aim of preparing school social workers and other school mental health professionals for practice in schools. She was named one of the 100 most influential contemporary social work faculty (Journal of Social Service Research, 2019) and received the Gary Lee Shaffer award for academic contributions to the field of school social work. Dr. Mary Beth Harris is retired from the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California where she directed campus-based and virtual programs in School Social Work. Prior to entering social work education in 2000, Harris was a family therapist, clinical director, and program administrator in the U.S.-Mexico border region for more than 20 years. Dr. Harris designed numerous courses across school social work and family practice curriculum. Her research and published works centered primarily around school social work and adolescent pregnancy. She developed Taking Charge, a widely implemented school-based life skills program for pregnant and parenting mothers. She subsequently co-authored a training manual with Dr. Cynthia Franklin for that program, Taking Charge: A School-Based Life Skills Group Curriculum for Adolescent Mothers, published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Paula Allen-Meares is an international expert on human services in educational settings, physical and mental health in under-resourced communities, and educational access and success. She served as Chancellor of University of Illinois at Chicago and Vice President of University of Illinois. Currently, she is John Corbally Presidential Professor Emerita and Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also serves as Dean and Professor Emerita and the Norma Radin Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan and previously served as Dean of the School Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.