Full Description
As the volume and complexity of mental health needs of school-aged children has grown, the capacity of schools to meet those needs has been challenging at best. School closures and social isolation during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated disconcerting trends regarding levels of anxiety, depression, and suicidality in children and adolescents. As resources continue to be strained for many schools, innovative approaches to addressing school mental health are necessary.
Promising Practices for Engaging Families and Communities around Mental Health in Schools is part of the Family School Community Partnership Issues series. This volume explores promising practices for engaging families and communities around mental health in schools. Through compelling case studies, it highlights collaborations that creatively engage systems of care to help schools respond to mental health concerns.
This book also introduces new paradigms for whole child support within the school-family-community context. It offers thoughtful analysis of the ethical, policy, and practical tensions that arise when addressing mental health in partnership with families and communities. Promising Practices for Engaging Families and Communities around Mental Health in Schools is an essential resource for educators, mental health professionals, and policymakers seeking inclusive, collaborative solutions to today's school mental health challenges.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction; Travis Lewis
Chapter 2. Connecting Community-Level Trauma & Student Success Through Systems Thinking; Jason Lynch and Kesha B. Hood
Chapter 3. Innovative Partnerships to Expand School-Based Mental Health Capacity in Rural Communities; Robyn Thomas Pitts, Kristen Park, Amy K. McDiarmid, Elaine S. Belansky, and Gloria E. Miller
Chapter 4. Creating Protective Factors in Children Through Positive Home-School Practices; Patrick D. Cunningham, Meredith E. Wellman, Gahyun Park, Brett Zyromski, Barbara J. Boone, and Emily C. Osborn
Chapter 5. Beyond the Classroom: Leveraging Home Visits to Support Student Mental Well-Being; Julie A. Stanley and Mary Huffman
Chapter 6. Cultural Sharing Conversations: Cultivating Collaborative Partnerships Between School and Family; Gloria E. Miller
Chapter 7. Your Health, Our Responsibility: Unlocking the Potential of Collaborative University-Assisted Approaches to Improving Health and Wellness through School-Based Programming; Gretchen E. L. Suess, Paige K. Lombard, and Paulette Branson
Chapter 8. The Value of Healing Families: Connecting Early Literacy with Social-Emotional Learning; Kathleen I. Harris
Chapter 9. Transformative SEL: Building Capacity for Authentic Caregiver-School Partnerships; Briana Coleman and Tyrone Martinez-Black
Chapter 10. Rural School-Based Mental Health and Wellness: Supporting Leaders Who Lead Support Systems; Antoinette Ryan and Wesley Henry
Chapter 11. Positions Not People: The Cumulative Impacts of Systematic Dehumanizing of Educators; Nicole Wilson Steffes and Katie
Chapter 12. Student Reentry Plans Following Psychiatric Hospitalization: Information Sharing Between Families, Schools and Healthcare Providers; Mitzi Pestaner and Shannon Baker Powell
