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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