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Transforming School Mental Health Services

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.

The complete Table of Contents and a sample chapter from this publication can be viewed below.

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