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Comprehensive Children's Mental Health Services in Schools and Communities

A Public Health Problem-Solving Model

Comprehensive Children's Mental Health Services in Schools and Communities
  • By Robyn S. Hess, Rick Jay Short and Cynthia E. Hazel.

Published February 2012

Despite the growing emphasis on a population-based training and service delivery model for school psychology, few resources exist to provide guidance concerning how such services might be conceptualized and put into place. In this book, the authors propose a public health model for comprehensive…
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The Power of Family-School Partnering (FSP)

A Practical Guide for School Mental Health Professionals and Educators

The Power of Family-School Partnering (FSP)
  • By Cathy Lines, Gloria Miller and Amanda Arthur-Stanley.

Published October 2010

Ongoing, strategic Family-School Partnering (FSP) is an essential component of every educational community. FSP is a multi-dimensional process in which schools, families, and communities engage in shared actions to ensure a child’s academic, social, and emotional success. With this text, the…
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To Hold and Be Held

The Therapeutic School as a Holding Environment

To Hold and Be Held
  • By Daniel K. Reinstein.

Published May 2006

Drawing on the teachings of D.W. Winnicott and John Bowlby, who helped revolutionize thinking about relational psychology, To Hold and Be Held integrates the concepts of the ‘holding environment’ and attachment theory and describes how they are applied in a clinical setting. It also uses metaphor…
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Designing Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents

A Shrewd Investment

Designing Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents
  • By J. Gerald Young, and Pierre Ferrari.

Published July 1998

An exceptional opportunity is being missed. A chance to alleviate suffering and to achieve health care cost reductions for society is available, but is being ignored. There is an explosion of new knowledge about the emotional and intellectual development of children, and the causes and treatment of…
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Leadership and Supervision in Special Services

Promising Ideas and Practices

Leadership and Supervision in Special Services
  • By Charles A Maher, David E Greenburg and Leonard Burrello.

Published August 1988

Here is an authoritative reference on a range of subjects vital to supervisory personnel whose responsibilities include children with learning and/or behavior problems. Leading professionals - serving as members of a special writing team of the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE)…
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