Introduction: Addressing youth mental health in schools / Melissa K. Holt and Amie E. Grills -- Externalizing behaviors / Nicole P. Powell, John E. Lochman, Caroline L. Boxmeyer, and Meghann K. Sallee -- Internalizing behaviors / Janay B. Sander, Kimberly DeBoth, and Thomas H. Ollendick -- Learning disabilities : academic and mental health needs / Elizabeth Swanson and Sharon Vaughn -- Autism spectrum disorder / Zachary Rossetti -- Substance use / Heidemarie Blumenthal, Lindsay S. Ham, Renee M. Cloutier, and Alexander J. Melkonian --Adolescent eating disorders and obesity / Stuart B. Murray, Andrea B. Goldschmidt, and Daniel Le Grange -- Childhood physical health issues in the school context / Paul C. McCabe and Katelyn Rose -- Adolescent sexuality : current directions in research, health, and risk reduction / Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck, Lucia F. O-Sullivan, Shawna Mastro, and Gillian Hewitt-Stubbs -- Mental heath concerns among LGBTQ youth in schools / V. Paul Poteat, Ian Rivers, and Jillian R. Scheer -- Family adjustment issues / Cheryl Buehler and Kamilah B. Legette -- School-based bullying : definition, prevalence, etiology, outcomes, and preventive strategies / Dorothy L. Espelage and Cassandra L. Colbert -- Interpersonal violence (dating and sexual violence) / Andrea Teten Tharp -- Effects of childhood traumatic event experiences / Joseph R. Cohen and Carla Kmett Danielson -- Family engagement in school-based mental health / Eleanor Castine, Sean Flanagan, and Kimberly A.S. Howard -- Universal prevention to support children's mental health in schools / Keith C. Herman, Wendy M. Reinke, Aaron M. Thompson and Reuben Faloughi.
Summary:
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. -- Provided by publisher.
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