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- Needed: a measure of adolescent self-esteem
- Screening Mental Health Problems in Schools
- Feedback: Screening for mental health problems in schools: A dilemma
- Feedback: Issues of liability and experiences related to mental health screening in schools
- How Many Kids Have a Mental Disorder?
- How can we measure how “mentally healthy” are the kids with whom we work?
- What is the “ideal” school based depression screening program?
- Who is using what to screen entering kindergarteners?
- Mental Health Screening material in Spanish?
- Capturing data on violence prevention at school
- Children and Depression The Popular Press Accelerates Discussion of Concerns
- What questionnaires are available on parenting knowledge and skills?
- Measure for anger management group
- Help identifying client satisfaction surveys
- Including yearly assessment of social and emotional development in accountability
- Looking for an assessment to use at the end of year to evaluate progress
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Available Research/Science/Knowledge-Base on:
- Needed: Info on how poverty affects academics – for inclusion
- Wanted: A neatly packaged way to find specific practices for assessing and responding to general referrals and such specific problems as anxiety, depression, and family conflicts
- Wanted: Info about "huffing" as gateway drug for middle school students
- Wanted: Research references on the relationship of dress codes to academic achievement and graduation rates
- What's the science base on the impact of moving students with problems into special settings?
- Racial disproportionality in special education
- How many students are not ready to learn?
- What does research say are the most common barriers to learning?
- Connecting student support to academic outcomes
- Resources for finding best practices for mental health in schools
- What's the data on adopting a Knowledge-based Compensation System?
- What are best practices for strengthening community mental health?
- Connection between bullying and substance abuse?
- What is the “ideal” school based depression screening program?
- Resources related to students living in poverty, with single parent
- What are indicators of psychosocial competence?
- Best practices in school-based behavioral health
- Link between use of mental health services and decrease in suicides
- Effective systems approaches to behavior support?
- Violence among deaf adolescents -- prevalence and prevention?
- Data on cost-effectiveness of school-based programs and services?
- Research on the relationship between exposure to violence and effects on learning
- Support for grandparents raising grandchildren
- Need data on the impact of learning support on educational outcomes
- INFO SHEET -- About Empirically Supported Therapeutic Relationships
- How does mental health status affect school performance?
- "Pay for Performance" for School Staff
- Recent empirical studies to guide school-based suicide prevention?
- What are best practices for promoting parent/child communication?
- Feedback: What are best practices for promoting parent/child communication?
- Feedback: What are best practices for promoting parent/child communication?
- Obesity and Mental Health Implications
- Backlash to Overstating the Science-base for School Interventions
- Have Professionals Been too Mute About the Expanding Use of Psychotropic Drugs with Young Children?
- Why don't more students use mental health services in schools?
- "Marketing" the value of school-based student support
- "Marketing" mental health at the school site?
- About school-based mental health and parents
- About "patches" for psychotropic medications
- Conducting descriptive research on school-based mental health practice for my dissertation
- What are the symptoms when children are exposed to domestic violence?
- How depression directly effects education
- How to assess the danger a student may pose in the future?
- Programs to connect students and school staff
- Needs assessment for hurricane aftermath
- What research shows the best use of counselor time for student outcomes?
- Poverty and social and emotional development
- Need a working definition of emotional wellness
Confidentiality and Consent Concerns:
- Clarifying the issues of liability, malpractice, and negligence
- Confidentiality Issue: Should school mental health staff tell the principal if a student is suicidal?
- Confidentiality concerns in using email to share information on students?
- Can we see a student under age 12 one time without parent consent?
- Need for consent form for school counseling
- Feedback: Need for consent form for school counseling
- Feedback: from two listserv participants on Parental Consent
- Feedback: two additional listserv participants comments on Parental Consent
- Does writing therapy goals into the IEP violate confidentiality?
- Concern about confidentiality with regard to ethical and legal issues.
- Putting risk assessment data in cum files: What are the practices/issues/problems?
- Informed consent form for middle school students
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- Comparing treatment efficacy of school-based and community-based services
- Will Smaller High Schools Do a Better Job in Addressing Barriers to Learning and MH Concerns?
- How to evaluate family functioning before and after interventions?
- Evaluating parent involvement
- RFP for an evaluation of city supported school-based MH programs
- What is the research on effectiveness of school-based mental health?
- Need measure for pre/post intervention for behavior problems
- Tools to assess effective parenting
- The Plateau Effect
- Need data on the impact of learning support on educational outcomes
- High Stakes Accountability in Schools is an Increasing Mental Health Concern
- Middle Schools: A Good or Bad Arrangement?
- Concerned about Children's Mental Health? The State of Schools Is the Big Story
- Achievement scores leveling off after a couple of years
- Does Drug Testing at School Deter Student Drug Use?
- How do you evaluate school consultation teams?
- What are good measures to evaluate an 8th grade transition program?
- Criteria for determining if schools and public mental health systems are collaborating effectively
- Seeking a measure of parental involvement
- Indepth Feedback: Evaluating outcomes of mental health interventions in schools
- Evaluating mental health workers in schools
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Inservice/CE Topics, Strategies, and Resources:
- Start up questions from staff as they begin a grant for school
- U.S. Department of Education Proposes Eliminating Many Programs
- Need funding to keep programs from disappearing
- Funding for afterschool counseling
- Need a guide for preparing a proposal for mental health in school
- New Directions for Student Support: Where's the Money?
- Looking for information related to submitting a proposal for the “Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems” grant
- How to fund collaboration between schools and community mental health centers?
- Using alcohol abuse reduction grant to raise capacity of schools for broader supports
- Planning to apply for grants: Is it wise to use a professional grant writer?
Teachers/Staff
Students
- Looking for job descriptions for those working in learning supports
- Providing teachers with resources to help students cope with holiday stressors
- Training resources for special ed assistants and aides
- Brief handouts for teachers on student self-injury and "huffing"
- Wanted: Research on what challenges are in store for teachers/counselors/schools in dealing with the aftermath of the hurricanes and student relocation
- "Back to School" Transitions: An Important Mental Health Concern
- Training/materials related to teen depression for staff and paraprofessionals
- Powerpoint presentations for school staff on student mental health
- Leadership skills for mobilizing staff
- Promoting mental health through classroom curriculum
- About resources to help plan for terrorism in the schools
- Middle School Administrators interested in social-emotional learning
- "Productivity" expectations for school based mental health clinicians? Three responses from school based mental health providers
- How can we bring "fence sitter" staff to feel part of school improvement?
- Training teachers about how to address barriers to learning
- Aids for planning initial orientation of new school-based MH counselors?
- Helping teachers and other school staff learn more about mental health as related to schools
- Administrators' attitudes: Barriers? Enablers?
- Wanted: a short but comprehensive mental health handbook for teachers
- Looking for sample forms (consent, release of info., etc.)
- Training for school-based staff to avoid triangulation
- Best approach to supervision of school-based providers
- From school staff: Need surveys for middle school students readiness for high school
- Supporting new teachers: What teachers say they need so students can succeed
- Need “how to” resources for school-based behavioral health services
- Needed: a survey for teachers on mental health in schools
Families
- Wanted: A curriculum for a girls' group that stresses supportive rather than competitive relationships
- How to help a student understand his sibling with Asperger's Syndrome
- Interactive software to help a student overcome fear of talking
- Literature on resilience for high school students?
- Info to raise awareness regarding the "choking game"
- Feedback: The "choking game" is no game: Need to anticipate and prevent, not wait for signs
- Followup: Student lost to choking "game"
- Needed: Human sexuality curriculum for special populations
- Summer reading for students using social and emotional themes
- Planning for students with bi-polar disorder
- Books for "Hispanic" children to introduce them to mental health
- Strategies to keep kids engaged during the summer?
- Obesity: What are the mental health implications?
- Suicide prevention and referral guidelines for state department of health?
- Resources for Spanish speaking population
- How to help her daughter's school become more sensitive to the mental health of students
- Resource for student who made false abuse accusation
- Indicators to identify students who are at-risk
- Range of behavioral programs for aggressive behaviors
- Literature on barriers to learning related to “disadvantaged” students
- Early childhood programs and promoting mental health
- Needed: Protocol for working with students with eating disorders
- Resources on impulse control for children and adolescents
- Worksheets to accommodate learning differences
- Need a student code of conduct integrating key strategies and alternatives
- Help for a student who was abused by a teacher
- Need resources/training related to anxiety in adolescence
- Strategies to sensitize students on how to interact with autistic peer
- Need resources on student self-referral for mental health in schools
- Need information for Legislators on the relationship between mental health and school dropout
- Curriculum for a course related to middle to high school transition
Classroom/School
- How to provide info to evacuated families without further traumatizing them?
- Resources to help students, family, and schools in the aftermath of weather-related disasters
- My seventh grade son cries at school every day . . . Help!
- Computer games addiction?
- How to provide support for students, their families, and school staff after the hurricane
- Feedback: In the aftermath of the hurricane
- Follow-up: "At school for storm evacuees, hugs before homework"
- MH Fact sheets for families
- Impact on families of deployment to war
- Resources on grief for children who have lost a parent?
- Medication refusal at school
- Addressing parents after a teacher's conviction for molestation
- Needed: models and data on successful parental involvement plans
- Bullying: wanted a survey to get the parents’ perspective
- From a foster parent: Need help for ninth grade foster child
- A Parent's Perspective: Personal cost-benefit look at mental health promotion in schools
- Trying to find resources for my son on Selective Mutism
- Working with multiple families in group therapy
- Need to educate school staff on mental health needs of our children
- Programs for families when a parent is incarcerated
- Need creative strategies to involve parents at the school
- Curriculum for sexual abuse prevention
- Interactive computer-based mental health education and promotion
- Resources for Crisis Response
- Lesson plans for conflict resolution for middle school
- Looking for specific curriculum materials vis a vis Mental Health issues to be used in the classroom
- Needed an unbiased consultation/research recommendation about a classroom curriculum to address alcohol and other drugs
- Are there ethical codes/guidelines for educators in responding to bullying?
- Need examples for an RFP for combined school and home interventions.
- Is there a nationwide synthesis of school social work models?
- Who is on what side in the debate on suicide screening in schools?
- Poverty and social emotional development
- How does response to intervention fit with learning supports?
- Needed: Guidelines for documentation of therapy and services in the school setting
- Needed: Strengths-based assessment for mental health in schools
- Effective strategies for preventing drop out?
- What are effective practices in dropout prevention?
- Common indicators for cross-jurisdictional attendance screening
- Stronger educational component needed in substance abuse treatment program
- Research that shows student support programs and services increase academic achievement
- Needed: Mental health strategies to include in school wellness plan
- Assisting in the classroom to help student stay in his seat
- What is the psychological impact of emergency drills on students?
- Integrating the School Resource Officer into student/learning supports
- Needed: examples of standards for school mental health providers
- Looking for schools that have effective alternatives to grade retention
- Needed: A school instrument to measure social emotional development
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Intervention Approaches (How to do it):
Addressing Individual Concerns
Restructuring on a System Level
- Needed: Best practices for establishing a “planning room” students identified as conduct problems
- Extrinsic rewards as a solution to behavior issues?
- Kindergarten student won't speak at school; any ideas for addressing the problem?
- Treatments for children with extreme separation anxiety?
- What to do with a sixth grader who is verbally aggressive?
- How do I deal with avoidance behavior around homework?
- Attention Problems -- Accommodating those not eligible for special education
- Strategies for a gifted but unmotivated student
- How to work with students concerned about the death of a student's parent?
- Surveys and research on homelessness and mental health
- Homework -- a mental health concern and a potential barrier to learning
- Ideas for a group of students with communication disorders?
- Engaging parents of middle school students: It's so hard
- Addressing truancy and student attendance
- Needed: Program ideas for working with a student diagnosed as having an oppositional defiant disorder
- Talking with students about motivation
- What to do about a bright, turned off student?
- Suicide prevention for 5th grade
- Best next steps for post secondary student with learning problems
- Dealing with behavioral outbursts in regular ed student
- Mental health issues among residential school students
- Need information about test anxiety
- Needed: survey instrument to measure motivation
- What are some ways to understand how school can promote MH?
- Ways to strengthen mental health programs for inner city schools
Program Level Concerns
- What case can be made to administrators about the value of school-owned student support and MH professionals?
- Practitioner trying to play a role in the school's restructuring
- Working with families through a student "life map"
- Needed: Guidelines on alternatives as district moves from corporal punishment
- Need resources for delivering mental health in schools
- Case conferencing and case teams at schools
- Students bringing neighborhood vendettas into the school; what interventions work?
- Help me change the minds of district leaders on mental health in schools
- School mental health counseling systems and data gathering
- Rural school-based mental health and teleconsultation
- Working with Families in Schools/Family systems therapy in school based mental health
- What can a small but "impacted" school do to improve outcomes?
- About strengthening a school-based student/family center?
- What are the most pressing barriers related to addressing diversity in schools?
- Necessary components of alternative settings for suspensions/expulsions
- About behavioral management systems for schools
- Enhancing support for non English speaking students
- Impact of multiservice family centers?
- How to keep class meetings and groups positive and productive?
- Reducing “repeat” referrals to alternative middle schools
- Multiple intervention initiatives need to intersect
- Group counseling guidelines at schools. And, continuing with students after graduation
- Early Mental Health Intervention ideas for 10-14 year olds?
- Need "barriers to learning" treatment plan form
- What are the alternatives to suspension?
- Poverty and Mental Disorders -- Intensive case management for children living in poverty; Related observation about mental disorders and multigenerational poverty
- Ideas for working with a troubled kindergarten student
- Feedback: Ideas for working with a troubled kindergarten student
- Feedback: More on ideas for working with a troubled kindergarten student
- Feedback: Ideas for working with a troubled kindergarten student
- Ninth grade plan
- Feedback: Transition programs for ninth grade
- Transition programs for ninth grade: A discussion group?
- Feedback: Ninth grade transitions
- Providing info on juvenile justice to "high risk" youth
- Is anyone using "adventure-based counseling in schools?"
- Finding more ways to get disengaged students re-engaged in learning at school
- About what to do (and not to do) on the anniversary of a school shooting or other tragedy
- What's effective in anger management for high school students?
- Mental health in schools "How do I start?"
- About ideas for working on "self-discipline" through classroom projects
- About starting a counseling program at a school
- Strategies to support culturally and linguistically diverse students
- About strategies to minimize dependence and enhance independence in students
- Developing a day treatment program
- About using self-study surveys to enhance learning support activity
- Is there a specific age when interventions are more effective?
- Need to know more about social emotional development and learning
- Talking points for increasing mental health support in schools
- How to deal with the competition between enhancing prevention programs and efforts to expand services for those with deep end mental health problems
- What is social marketing related to learning supports?
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- Needed: Help in Describing comprehensive prevention programs in schools
- Thinking About Unifying intervention initiatives
- Why don't classrooms account for emotional problems?
- "Mental health" can be a scary term for students and families: What's a better term?
- Helping vs. socialization as it affects a school's focus on student problems
- Conflict with Board - whether to intervene at the school or in special setting
- Feedback: Conflict with Board - whether to intervene at the school or in special setting
- Feedback: About "a conflict with the Board on where to intervene”
- High Stakes Accountability in Schools is an Increasing Mental Health Concern
- Deciding about retaining a first grade student
- Strategies for Suicide Prevention
- Critical Incidents Stress Debriefing Revisited
- About the pros and cons of school-wide screening for depression and suicide
- Does early drug abuse education increase curiosity about drugs?
- Dilemma of responding to a suicidal student when the school is involved in a research study on the matter
- Why do school staff find it so difficult to move from a reactive to a prevention role?
- Stymied when school says “talk it over” but parent says “fight it out.”
- Concern about a special education misdiagnosis and what to do about it?
- From a parent: Medication was recommended, but what are the alternatives?
- From school staff: Is mid-year “retention” of a student the right decision?
- Addressing the dilemma of proving that prevention programs are effective
- What to do with six students who are taking huge amounts of time and resources
- What can a “gap” school (not poor enough, not rich enough) do to get some needed supports?
- Problem with a small group of disruptive students distracting the class
- What is the difference between a clinical mental health issue and a school counseling mental health issue?
- Is a memorial service for teen suicides appropriate or does it make suicide attractive?
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- Info wanted about training 4th-6th graders as peer coaches for coping
- Youth Council to Address Mental Health Stigma
- Training teachers and student leaders to impart mental health info
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- What level of Schooling Warrants the Highest Policy Priority?
- Working with Principals to Expand Learning Supports using the new opportunities stemming from the IDEA reauthorization
- Do you have a "draft" of a policy statement for a student/learning support system?
- Policy regarding substance abuse for athletes and afterschool
- Concerned about policies that affect immigrant students
- My state "decreed" that districts must have a social-emotional policy: Any examples?
- Policies and procedures around drug testing
- What are state laws regarding parental consent for students to receive counseling?
- How to “piggy-back” on recently adopted school reform initiative to strengthen learning supports?
- Looking for examples of referral policies
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School Climate:
- Schools and Communities Working Together: Is the Dominant Focus Too Limited?
- Kick Them Out or Help Address Their Problems?
- Weekly computer-generated report for parents on a student's behavior
- Follow up processes to track referrals
- A request from the School of the 21st Century at Yale
- About reconciling school and agency "rules and regulations"
- Fingerprinting -- a barrier to providing mental health services in schools
- Parent’s concern about support for student returning to school from hospital
- Encouraging the school board to address changing demographics and related needs
- How will Medicaid rule change impact services in schools?
- Parent indicates having trouble getting the school to provide the intervention specified on Individual Education Plan
- School changing label from ADHD to Emotionally Disturbed: Implications?
- Follow-up: School changing label from ADHD to Emotionally Disturbed: Implications?
- Looking for district protocols related to students alerting adults about threats
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Student feedback on school climate
Concern about school climate
Policing in schools experiencing frequent violence
About designing customer friendly schools
How to align need for client record keeping with consultation with teacher? How to improve school teamwork and climate? Enhancing Student Connectedness How to handle incident of swastika painted on a girl’s locker?
Handling a student who plays one teacher off against another (triangulation)
My daughter has special needs and she needs more support at school
Concerns at school board meeting when suicide screening was discussed
How to mobilize student support staff to work in new ways with teachers and students
Superintendent says job description for K-8 counselors needs to be rewritten Self-harm has become "popular" among teens in our school: What to do?
Needed: Resources for school bus drivers who transport students with behavior problems
Looking for a definition of school violence
- Needed: Tools and Ideas Related to assessing and strengthening the district’s focus on mental health
- Including mental health guidelines in a school Wellness Plan
- Are Your Concerns Included in School Improvement Planning?
- Too many initiatives and frameworks: What's a practitioner to do?
- New Directions: System Building or Services for a Few More Students?
- Formulating a plan for Mental Health in Schools
- Why Do School Improvement Plans Continue to Pay So Little Attention to Student Support?
- Need help in planning how to move in more effective new directions in the new year
- Are categorical approaches undermining efforts to create effective systems for schools to address overlapping psychosocial and mental health problems?
- How can we integrate data from various evaluations to advocate for enhancing mental health in schools?
- What does the term "system change" mean and how is it measured?
- Using Response to Interventions (RTI) for Identifying Problems
- Special Focus : New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Action Plans
- They got a mental health in schools grant! Now what?
- Needed: Info on forming a charter school for students with mental health problems
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- Resources for providing school staff with grief support
- Staff survey on overwork and stress
- Needed: More Focus on the Mental Health of School Staff
- Providing teacher support groups
- How to support the school staff reeling from accountability pressures?
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- Starting a school counseling intern program
- Guidelines needed for supervision of school MH staff for licensing
- Interviewing to select school-based mental health staff?
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- Focusing an IEP team on student engagement
- Special education students in private schools? Who provides what services?
- Mental health in schools: What's available? Depends on what you mean by mental health
- Timelines for evaluating and placing a new student who comes in with an IEP
- Backlash to assessment that may lead to special education referrals
- Why are Student Support Staff so Expendable?
- New teacher in a special ed class -- HELP!
- Does writing therapy goals into the IEP violate confidentiality?
- Need school support for a student with Asperger’s Syndrome
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- Need help in planning a community collaborative meeting agenda
- School staff has difficulties with school-based community mental health providers
- How to improve communications between the family and school when students are in treatment outside of school for mental health problems?
- Different Agendas for Mental Health in Schools
- Responses to: Different Agendas for Mental Health in Schools
- Guidelines needed for preparing a school-community interagency agreement
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