Second in the new Best Practices series, this book provides the foundation for supporting students' mental health in both academics and social development.

This staple resource guides you to:

• Develop interventions for academic problems
• Create classroom strategies that build behavioral, social, and life skills
• Implement interventions for mental health, social, and behavioral problems
• Facilitate transition to college for students with learning disabilities
• Address and intervene against school refusal
• Set progress monitoring goals for academic skill improvement

Topics include:

• Anxiety and depression interventions
• Behavioral interventions
• Classroom discipline
• Fostering student engagement
• Fostering student resilience
• Group counseling
• Increasing academic engaged time
• Instructional strategies for reading
• Intensive academic interventions
• Positive psychology
• Preventing academic failure
• Promoting study skills
• Reading interventions
• School refusal interventions
• School-to-work transitions for disabled students
• Services for gifted students
• Setting progress monitoring goals
• Social skills training
• Transitions to college for students with learning disabilities

Sample Content

• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1