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Comprehensive Children's Mental Health Services in Schools and Communities
A Public Health Problem-Solving Model
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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