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I. Introductory Packets
Each Introductory packet has overview discussions, descriptions or model programs (where appropriate), references to publications, access information to other relevant centers, agencies, organizations, advocacy groups, and internet links, and a list of consultation cadre members ready to share expertise.
A. System Concerns
1. Financial Strategies to Aid in Addressing Barriers to Learning
2. Evaluation and Accountability: Getting Credit for All You Do
3. Working Collaboratively: From School-Based Teams to School-Community-Higher Education Connections
4. About Mental Health in Schools.
B. Program/Process Concerns
1. Violence Prevention and Safe Schools (SP)
2. Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs
3. Parent and Home Involvement in Schools (SP)
4. Confidentiality and Informed Consent (SP)
5. Understanding and Minimizing Staff Burnout
6. Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
7. Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning
8. Early Development and Learning from the Perspective of Addressing Barriers
9. Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support
C. Psychosocial Problems
1. Dropout Prevention
2. Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities
3. Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Support
4. Attention Problems: Intervention and Resources
5. Anxiety, Fears, Phobias, and Related Problems: Intervention and Resources for School Aged Youth
6. Social and Interpersonal Problems Related to School Aged Youth
7. Affect and Mood Problems Related to School Aged Youth
8. Conduct and Behavior Problems in School Aged Youth
II. Resource Aid Packets & Tools
The Resource Aid Packets and tools are designed to complement our series of Introductory Packets and reports. They provide tools for fairly circumscribed areas of practice. They offer materials to guide and assist with staff training and student/family interventions -- including overviews, outlines, checklists, instruments, and other resources that can be reproduced and used as information handouts and aids for training and practice.
A. Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools (SP)
B. Responding to Crisis at a School (SP)
C. Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs
D. Students and Psychotropic Medication: The School's Role
E. Substance Abuse (SP)
F. Clearinghouse Catalogue (On-line)
G. Consultation Cadre (On-line)
H. Gateway of Internet Sites Relevant to Mental Health in Schools (On-line)
I. Organizations with Resources Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Catalogue of Clearinghouse, Technical Assistance Centers, and Other Agencies
J. Where to Get Resource Materials to Address Barriers to Learning (includes a range of sample materials)
K. Where to Access Statistical Information Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning: An Annotated Reference List
L. Improving Teaching and Learning Supports by Addressing the Rhythm of a Year
M. Guidelines for a Student Support Component
N. Resource Synthesis to Help Integrate Mental Health in Schools into the Recommendations of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (see also Gap Analysis Report)
O. New Directions for Student Support: Rethinking Student Support to Enable Students to Learn and Schools to Teach
P. Catalogue of Internet Sites Relevant to Mental Health in Schools
Q. Standards for an Enabling or Learning Supports Component
R. Standards & Quality Indicators for an Enabling or Learning Supports Component
III. Technical Aid Packets
Technical Aid Packets are designed to provide basic understanding of specific practices and tools.
A. School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care
B. School-Based Mutual Support Groups (For Parents, Staff, Older Students) (SP)
C. Volunteers to Help Teachers and School Address Barriers to Learning
D. Welcoming and Involving New Students and Families (SP)
E. Guiding Parents in Helping Children Learn (SP)
F. After-School Programs and Addressing Barriers to Learning
G. Resource Mapping and Management to Address Barriers to Learning: An Intervention for Systemic Change
H.Evaluation and Accountability Related to Mental Health in Schools
I.Autism Spectrum Disorders and Schools
IV. Technical Assistance Samplers
These samplers provide basic information for accessing a variety of resources on a specific topic such as agencies, organizations, websites, individuals with expertise, relevant programs, and library resources.

A. Thinking About and Accessing Policy Related to Addressing Barriers to Learning
B. Behavioral Initiatives in Broad Perspective
C. School-Based Health Centers
D. Protective Factors (Resiliency)
E. School Interventions to Prevent Youth Suicide
F. A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
G. Using Technology to Address Barriers to Learning
H. Sexual Minority Students
V. Guides to Practice -- Ideas into Practice
A. Mental Health and School-Based Health Centers
B. What Schools Can Do to Welcome and Meet the Needs of All Students and Families (SP)
C. Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment
D. New Directions in Enhancing Educational Results: Policymakers' Guide to Restructuring Student Support Resources to Address Barriers to Learning
E. Guides for the Enabling Component
      1. Getting from Here to There: A Guidebook for the Enabling Component
      2. A Guide to the Enabling Component (one of the New American School Models)
F. School-Community Partnerships: A Guide
G. Sustaining School and Community Efforts to Enhance Outcomes for Children and Youth: A Guidebook and Tool Kit
H. New Directions for Student Support: Some Fundamentals
VI. Training and Presentation Resources

  1. Continuing Education Modules
    1. Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools
    2. Mental Health in Schools: New Roles for School Nurses
    3. Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling
    4. Enhancing School Staff Understanding of MH and Psychosocial Concerns: A Guide
    5. Developing Resource-Oriented Mechanisms to Enhance learning Supports
    6. Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Comprehensive Approach to Mental Health in Schools
    7. About Infrastructure Mechanisms for a Comprehensive Learning Support Component
    8. Leadership Training: Moving in New Directions for Student Support
    9. Revisiting Learning & Behavior Problems: Moving Schools Forward
    10. On Understanding Intervention in Psychology and Education


  2. Training Tutorials
    1. Classroom Changes to Enhance and Re-engage Students in Learning
    2. Community Outreach: School-Community Resources to Address Barriers to learning
    3. Creating the Infrastructure for an Enabling (Learning Support) Component to Address Barriers to Student Learning
    4. Crisis Assistance and Prevention: Reducing Barriers to Learning
    5. Home Involvement in Schooling
    6. Students & Family Assistance Programs and Services to Address Barriers to Learning
    7. Support for Transitions to Address Barriers to Learning

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  3. Quick Training Aids
    1. Assessing & Screening (SP)
    2. Attention Problems in School
    3. Behavior Problems at School
    4. Bullying Prevention
    5. Case Management in the School Context
    6. Confidentiality (SP)
    7. Addressing Barriers to Learning: Overview of the Curriculum for an Enabling (or Learning Supports) Component
    8. Financing Strategies to Address Barriers to Learning
    9. Re-engaging Students in Learning
    10. School-Based Crisis Intervention (SP)
    11. School Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Affect and Mood Problems
    12. School Staff Burnout
    13. Suicide Prevention
    14. Violence Prevention

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  4. Presentation & Training Aids (Slides & Scripts)
    1. Youth Suicide Prevention: Mental Health and Public Health Perspectives (SP)

    2. New Directions for Student Support
    3. Addressing Barriers to Learning and Closing the Achievement Gap: New Directions for Student Support. A series of seven "presentations" focused on key facets of this critical topic. Each can be viewed on screen in either pdf or powerpoint format. They can also be downloaded for your use in presenting to others.

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  5. Fact & Information Resources, Guidance Notes,
      Practice Notes, Tools for Practice
    1. Fact & Information Resources
      1. About School Engagement and Re-Engagement
      2. Annotated "lists" of Empirically Supported/Evidence Based Interventions for School-aged Children and Adolescents
      3. Financing Mental Health for Children & Adolescents
      4. What is a Learning Support Resource Team?
      5. What Might a Fully Functioning Enabling or Learning Supports Component Look Like at a School
      6. Resources for Planning Mental Health in Schools
      7. New Directions for Student Supports: Some Resources
      8. Using Federal Education Legislation in Moving Toward a Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approach to Addressing Barriers to Learning (e.g., Creating a Cohesive System of Learning Supports)
      9. About Empirically Supported Therapeutic Relationships
      10. About Positive Psychology
      11. The School's Role in Addressing Psychological Reactions to Loss
      12. Frequently Asked Questions About Mental Health in Schools
      13. Why Address What's Missing in School Improvement Planning?
      14. Some Base Line Data on School Mental Health Services
      15. Costs of Not Addressing Barriers to Learning
      16. Data on the Plateau or Leveling Off Effect of Achievement Test Scores
      17. Data Related to the Need for New Directions for School Improvement
      18. Diffusion of Innovations and Science-Based Practices to Address Barriers to Learning & Improve Schools: A Series of Information Resources on Enabling System Change
        1. Change Agent Mechanisms for School Improvement: Infrastructure not Individuals
        2. Systemic Change for School Improvement
        3. Some Key References Related to Enabling System Change
        4. Some Key Terms Related to Enabling System Change
        5. Brief Overview of Major Concepts from E.M. Rogers' Work on Diffusion of Innovations
        6. Policy Implications for Advancing Systemic Change for School Improvement
        7. Brief Overview of Malcolm Gladwell’s Concept of the Tipping Point
        8. Systemic Change and Empirically-Supported Practices: The Implementation Problem
      19. About Empirically-supported Practices

    2. Guidance Notes
      1. Infrastructure for Learning Supports at District, Regional, and State Offices
      2. About Planning and Action for the Mental Health Needs of Students and School Staff in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster
      3. Schools Helping Students Deal with Loss
      4. Addressing School Adjustment Problems
      5. Dropout Prevention
      6. Homework is a Mental Health Concern
      7. Life Beyond the "Project" – Fully Integrating the Effort into the School Improvement Agenda
      8. What will it cost? - No New Dollars!
      9. Fully Integrating Student/Learning Supports into the School Improvement Agenda
      10. Pursuing Opportunities for Moving Proactively from the Margins into the Mainstream of School Improvement
      11. The Relationship of Response to Intervention and Systems of Learning Supports
      12. Integrating Learning Supports into the Infrastructure of a Small School
      13. Gateways to Resources for Enhancing Positive Outcomes for all Students

    3. Practice Notes
      1. About Motivation
      2. Addressing School Adjustment Problems
      3. Common Behavior Problems at School: A Natural Opportunity for Social and Emotional Learning
      4. Developing Systems at a School for Problem Identification, Triage, Referral, and Management of Care
      5. Grief and Loss
      6. Involving Parents in Counseling
      7. Making MOUs Meaningful
      8. Natural Opportunities to Promote Social-Emotional Learning and MH
      9. Obesity and Mental Health
      10. Prereferral Interventions
      11. School Response to Natural Disasters
      12. Suicidal Crisis
      13. Supporting Successful Transition to Ninth Grade
      14. Welcoming Strategies for Newly Arrived Students & Their Families
      15. When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others
      16. Working with Disengaged Students
      17. Bullying: A Major Barrier to Student Learning
      18. Countering the Over-pathologizing of Students' Feeling & Behavior: A Growing Concern Related to MH in Schools
      19. Prescription Drugs Abuse Among Youth

    4. Tools for Practice
      1. Community Outreach for Involvement and Support: A Self-study Survey
      2. Classroom-based Approaches to Enable and Re-engage Students in Classroom Learning: A Self-study Survey
      3. Crisis Assistance and Prevention: A Self-study Survey
      4. Home Involvement in Schooling: A Self-study Survey
      5. School-Community Collaboration: A Self-study Survey
      6. Student and Family Assistance Programs and Services: A Self-study Survey
      7. Support for Transitions: A Self-study Survey
      8. Survey of Learning Support System Status
VII. Center Policy & Program Analysis Briefs and Notes
  1. Policy and Practice Analysis & Issue Briefs and Notes

    1. Mental Health in Schools

      1. The Maternal and Child Health Bureau's Initiative for Mental Health in Schools
      2. Mental Health in Schools: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future
      3. Youngsters' Mental Health and Psychosocial Problems: What are the Data?
      4. Financing Mental Health for Children & Adolescents
      5. Integrating Mental Health in Schools: Schools, School-Based Centers, and Community Programs Working Together
      6. Mental Health of Children and Youth: The Important Role of Primary Care Health Professionals
      7. Mental Health of Children and Youth and the Role of Public Health Professionals
      8. Integrating Agenda for Mental Health in Schools into the Recommendations of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
      9. Gap Analysis of the Resource Synthesis Related to integrating Mental Health in Schools into the Recommendations of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
      10. Diversity Competence for Psychological Practitioners: Eliminating Disparities in Psychological Practices
      11. The Current Status of Mental Health in Schools: A Policy and Practice Analysis
      12. Screening Mental Health Problems in Schools
      13. Should Policy Specify a Formal Role for Schools Related to Mental Health?
      14. Suicide Prevention in Schools
      15. Building Collaboration for Mental Health Services in California Schools: What Will be Built?
      16. Youth Risk Taking Behavior:The Role of Schools

    2. School Improvement and Restructuring Related to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning

      1. Policy & Practice Analysis
        1. School Improvement Planning: What's Missing?
        2. Another Initiative? Where Does it Fit? A Unifying Framework and an Integrated Infrastructure for Schools to Address Barriers to Learning and Promote Healthy Development
        3. Addressing What's Missing in School Improvement Planning: Expanding Standards and Accountability to Encompass an Enabling or Learning Supports Component
        4. Example of a Formal Proposal for Moving in New Directions for Student Support
        5. Designing Schoolwide Programs in Title I Schools: Using the Non-Regulatory Guidance in Ways that Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
        6. For Consideration in Reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act . . .
          Promoting a Systematic Focus on Learning Supports to Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
        7. Legislation in Need of Improvement: Reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act to Better Address Barriers to Learning
        8. Schools as Caring, Learning Communities
        9. Policies and Practices for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Current Status and New Directions
        10. Addressing Barriers to Student Learning: Closing Gaps in School/Community Policy and Practice
        11. Expanding Educational Reform to Address Barriers to Learning: Restructuring Student Support Services and Enhancing School-Community Partnerships
        12. Addressing Barriers to Student Learning & Promoting Healthy Development (Brief Overview)
        13. Introduction to a component for Addressing Barriers to Student Learning
        14. Early Development and School Readiness from the Perspective of Addressing Barriers to Learning
        15. Grade Retention: What's the Prevailing Policy and What Needs to be Done?
        16. Preschool Programs: A Synthesis of Current Policy Issues
        17. School Attendance Problems: Are Current Policies & Practices Going in the Right Direction?
        18. Youth Gangs and Schools

      2. Proposals for Restructuring
        1. Resource-Oriented Teams: Key Infrastructure Mechanisms for Enhancing Education Supports
        2. Restructuring Boards of Education to Enhance Schools' Effectiveness in Addressing Barriers to Student Learning
          1. Full Report
          2. Executive Summary
        3. Framing New Directions for School Counselors, Psychologists, & Social Workers

      3. Calls to Action to Advance Efforts to Address:
        1. Student Support Staff: Moving in New Directions through School Improvement
        2. An Open Letter to Congress: Reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to Better Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
        3. An Open letter To Mayors: discussion of a mayor’s role in public education
        4. School Improvement? . . . fully addressing barriers to learning and teaching is the next step!

    3. Systemic Change and Sustainability

      1. New Initiatives: Considerations Related to Planning, Implementing, Sustaining, and Going-to-Scale
      2. Systemic Change for School Improvement: Designing, Implementing, and Sustaining Prototypes and Going to Scale
        1. Full Report
        2. Executive Summary
      3. Organization Facilitators: A Key Change Agent for Systemic School and Community Changes
      4. Toward Enhancing Resource Center Collaboration
      5. Toward a School District Infrastructure that More Effectively Addresses Barriers to Learning and Teaching
     

  2. Reports from the Coalition for Cohesive Policy in Addressing Barriers to Development & Learning

    1. Organizing Framework: Coalition for Cohesive Policy in Addressing Barriers to Development and Learning
    2. Initial Tasks and Guiding Frameworks: Coalition for Cohesive Policy in Addressing Barriers to Development and Learning
    3. The Policy Problem and a Resolution to Guide Organizations Working toward Policy Cohesion
    4. Proposal for Policy Legislation: Restructuring Student Support Resources and Enhancing Their Connection with Community Resources

  3. Reports from the Policy Leadership Cadre for Mental Health in Schools

    1. Expanding Policy Leadership for Mental Health in Schools
    2. Report from the Regional Conferences
    3. Mental Health in Schools: Guidelines, Models, Resources & Policy Considerations
    4. Report from the Texas Leadership Institute for Mental Health in Schools
    5. An Initial Look at Texas Policy Related to Mental Health in Schools

  4. Reports and Resources Related to the National Initiative: New Directions for Student Support
      In addition to the items below, other resources for the Initiative and reports on individual state activity are online at: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/summit2002/ndannouncement

    1. Report from the National Meeting on Pioneer Initiatives to Reform Education Support Programs (May, 2000)
      1. Center Report: Pioneer Initiatives to Reform Education Support Programs
      2. Executive Summary: Pioneer Initiatives to Reform Education Support Programs
      3. Resource Materials

    2. National Summit New Directions for Student Support
      1. Executive Summary
      2. Full Report

    3. Concept Papers
      1. New Directions for Student Support (Concept Paper)
      2. Assuring No Child is Left Behind
      3. Two Examples of White Papers to Inform and Guide Policy Makers
      4. So you Want Higher Achievement Scores? It's Time to Rethink Learning Supports

    4. Resource Materials
      1. Q & A Talking Points
      2. What Might a Fully Functioning Enabling or Learning Supports Component Look Like at a School?
      3. Guidelines for a Student Support Component
        1. Full Document
        2. Summary Outline
      4. Tool Kit: Rethinking Student Support to Enable Students to Learn and Schools to Teach
      5. Text Book: New Directions for Student Support: Some Fundamentals
      6. Where's It Happening? New Directions for Student Support
      7. Power Point Presentation
        1. New Directions for Student Support
        2. Addressing Barriers to Learning and Closing the Achievement Gap: New Directions for Student Support
      8. Research-Base
        1. Addressing Barriers to Student Learning & Promoting Healthy Development
        2. A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning ( Document upon which the above brief is based)
      9. Info Sheet: New Directions for Student Supports: Some Resources

  5. Center Impact Evaluation Report
     
     
VIII. Feature Articles from our Newsletter
1. Mental Health in Schools: Emerging Trends (Winter ‘96)
2. School-Linked Services and Beyond (Spring ‘96)
3. Labeling Troubled Youth: The Name Game (Summer ‘96)
4. Policies and Practices for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Current Status and New Directions (Fall ‘96)
5. Comprehensive Approaches & Mental Health in Schools (Winter ‘97)
6. Behavior Problems: What's a School to Do? (Spring ‘97)
7. Addressing Barriers to Learning: Closing Gaps in Policy & Practice (Sum ‘97)
8. Easing the Impact of Student Mobility: Welcoming & Social Support (Fall ‘97)
9. Accountability: Is it Becoming a Mantra? (Winter ‘98)
10. Enabling Learning in the Classroom: A Primary Mental Health Concern(Spr98)
11. Open Letter to the Secretary of Education, Richard Riley (Summer ‘98)
12. Denying Social Promotion Obligates Schools to Do More to Address Barriers to Learning (Fall, ‘98)
13. School-Community Partnerships from the School's Perspective (Winter, ‘99)
14. Expanded School Reform (Spring, ‘99)
15. Youth Suicide/Depression/Violence (Summer, ‘99)
16. Promoting Youth Development and Addressing Barriers (Fall, ‘99)
17. Connecting Counseling, Psychological, & Social Support Programs to School Reform (Winter, ‘00)
18. Expanding the Framework for School Accountability (Spring, '00)
19. Substance Abuse Prevention: Toward Comprehensive, Multifaceted Approaches (Summer, '00)
20. Addressing Barriers to Learning & Promoting Healthy Development: A Usable Research-Base (Fall, '00)
21. Mechanisms for Delivering MH in Schools (Winter, '01)
22. Opening the Classroom Door (Spring, 01)
23. CSSS - Hawai`i's Comprehensive Student Support System... a multifaceted approach that encompasses & enhances MH in schools. (Summer, '01)
24. Comprehensive & Multifaceted Guidelines for Mental Health in Schools. (Fall, '01)
25. Re-engaging Students in Learning at School. (Winter, '02)
26. School Staff Burnout. (Spring, '02)
27. Revisiting Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities.(Summer, '02)
28. Summit on New Directions for Student Support. (Fall, '02)
29. Needed: A Greater Role for Learning Support Staff in Inservice at Every School. (Winter, '03)
30. Safe Students/Healthy Schools: A Collaborative Process. (Spring, '03)
31. New Directions: Where's it Happening? (Summer, '03)
32. Natural Opportunities to Promote Social-Emotional Learning and MH (Fall '03)
33. Integrating Agendas for Mental Health in Schools into the Recommendations of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (Winter '04)
34. Diversity and Professional Competence in Schools... a mental health perspective (Spring '04)
35. Beyond Positive Behavior Support Initiatives (Summer '04)
36. Sustainability & Scale-up: It's About Systemic Change (Fall '04)
37. Bullying and Addressing Barriers to Learning (Winter '05)
38. Who at the School Addresses Barriers to Learning and Teaching? (Spring '05)
39. Complex Problems, Limited Solutions (Summer '05)
40. Mental Health in Schools: An Opportunity to Influence Change in a Period of Transformation (Fall '05)
41. Working in Schools: Q and A (Winter '06)
42. Concerns=Opportunities: Addressing Student Disengagement, Acting Out, and Dropouts by Moving in New Directions (Spring '06)
43. School Improvement: Where's Student Support? (Summer '06)
44. Response to Intervention (Fall '06)
45. Open Letter to the Mayor (Winter '07)
46. Engaging the Strengths of Families, Youth, and Communities in Rebuilding Learning Supports (Spring '07)
47. Evidence-Based Practices in Schools: Concerns About Fit and Implementation (Summer '07)
IX. Selected Reprints Clarifying the Center's Approach to Mental Health in Schools
Most of these can be downloaded in PDF format (for personal use only). Or, go to our Technical Assistance page or Guestbook to request a copy of these selected reprints.
  1. H.S. Adelman (1996). Restructuring Education Support Services: Toward the Concept of an Enabling Component. Kent, OH: American School Health Association.
  2. L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (1996). Mental Health in the schools: Promising directions for practice. Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, 7, 303-317.
  3. H.S. Adelman (1995). Clinical psychology: Beyond psychopathology and clinical interventions. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice,2,28-44.
  4. H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1997). Restructuring education support services and integrating community resources: Beyond the full service school model. School Psychology Review, 25,431-445
  5. H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1997). System reform to address barriers to learning: Beyond school-linked services and full service schools. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 67(3), 408-421.
  6. H. S. Adelman ,& L. Taylor (1997). Toward a scale-up model for replicating new approaches to schooling. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 8(2), 197-230
  7. H.S. Adelman, L. Taylor, B. Bradley, & K.D. Lewis (1997). Mental Health in Schools: Expanded Opportunities for School Nurses. Journal of School Nursing, 13(3), 6-12.
  8. H. S. Adelman ,& L. Taylor (1998). Involving teachers in collaborative efforts to better address barriers to student learning. Special issue of Journal of Preventing School Failure, 42(2), 55-60M
  9. C. Lim & H.S. Adelman (1997). Establishing school-based collaborative teams to coordinate resources: A case study. Social Work in Education, 19(4), 266-277.
  10. Commentary: How school reform is failing to address barriers to learning (7/98). Prepared by UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools
  11. H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1998). Beyond placement in the least restrictive environment: The concept of least intervention needed and the need for a continuum of community-school programs/services.(A prepared for a forum sponsored by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education.)
  12. Opening the gates: Learning Supports at Elizabeth Learning Center -- A New American School Demonstration Site in the Los Angeles Unified School District
  13. H. S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1998). Mental health in schools: Moving forward. School Psychology Review, 27(2), 175-190.
  14. H. S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1998). Reframing mental health in schools and expanding school reform. Educational Psychology, 33(4), 135-152.
  15. L. Taylor & H. S. Adelman (1998). Confidentiality: Competing principles, inevitable dilemmas. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 9, 267-275.
  16. L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (1998). A Policy and Practice Framework to Guide School-Community Connections. Rural Special Education Quarterly, 17(3/4), 62-70.
  17. H. S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1999). Mental Health in Schools and System Restructuring. Clinical Psychology Review, 19(2), 137-163
  18. H. S. Adelman, L. Taylor, M. Weist, S. Adelsheim, B. Freeman, L. Kapp, M. Lahti & D. Mawn (1999). Mental health in Schools: A federal initiative. Children's Services: Social Policy, Research, and Practice 2(2), 95-115.
  19. L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (1999). Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental Differences. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15(4), 255-276.
  20. H.S. Adelman, L. Taylor, & M.V. Schneider (1999). A School-wide Component to Address Barriers to Learning. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15(4), 277-302. 
  21. L. Taylor, P. Nelson, & H.S. Adelman (1999). Scaling-Up Reforms Across a School District. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15(4), 303-326. 
  22. H.S. Adelman, C. Reyna, R. Collins, J. Onghai, & L. Taylor (1999). Fundamental Concerns About Policy for Addressing Barriers to Student Learning. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15(4), 327-350. 
  23. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2000). Looking at School Health and School Reform Policy Through the Lens of Addressing Barriers to Learning. Children's Services: Social Policy, Research, and Practice, 3(2), 117-132. 
  24. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2000). Moving Prevention From the Fringes into the Fabric of School Improvement. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultaiton, 11(1) , 7-36. 
  25. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2000). Shaping the Future of Mental Health in Schools. Psychology in the Schools, 37(1), 49-60.
  26. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2000). Promoting mental health in schools in the midst of school reform. Journal of School Health, 70, 210-215.
  27. L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2000). Toward ending the marginalization of mental health in schools. Journal of School Health, 70, 210-215.
  28. L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2000). Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities. Professional School Counseling, 3(5), 298-307.
  29. L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2001). Enlisting Appopriate Parental Cooperation and Involvement in Children's Mental Health Treatment. The Mental Health Desk Reference, 31, 219-224.
  30. R. Grier, L. Morris, L. Taylor (2001). Assessment Strategies for School-Based Mental Health Counseling. Journal of School Health, 71(9), 467-469.
  31. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). Impediments to Enhancing Availability of Mental Health Services in Schools: Fragmentation, Overspecialization, Counterproductive Competition, and Marginalization. Paper commissioned by the National Association of School Psychologists and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services (ERIC/CASS). Published by the ERIC/CASS Clearinghouse.
  32. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning. Childhood Education, 78(5), 261-268.
  33. L. Taylor, & H.S. Adelman (2002). Lessons Learned From Working With a District's Mental Health Unit. Childhood Education, 78(5), 295-300.
  34. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). Aligning School Accountability, Outcomes, and Evidence-Based Practices. In Data Matters (Spring/Summer 2002, Issue #5, pp 16-18), an Evaluation Newsletter published by the National TA Center for Children's Mental Health
  35. L. Taylor, & H.S. Adelman (2004). Advancing Mental Health in Schools: Guiding Frameworks and Strategic Approaches. Advances in School-Based Mental Health. K. Robinson (ED.) Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute
  36. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). Toward a Comprehensive Policy Vision for Mental Health in Schools. Chapter in Handbook of School Mental Health: Advancing Practices and Research. M. Weist, S. Evans, N. Lever(Eds)Norwell, MA:Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  37. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). School Counselors and School Reform: New Directions. Professional School Counseling. 5(4), 235-248.
  38. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2003). Creating School and Community Partnerships for Substance Abuse Prevention Programs. Journal of Primary Prevention. 23(3), 331-371.
  39. L. Taylor, & H.S. Adelman (2003). School-Community Relations: Policy and Practice. Chapter in Ensuring Safe School Environments: Exploring Issues-Seeking Soulutions. M.S.E. Fishbaugh, T. R. Berkeley, & G. Schroth (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  40. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). So you want higher achievement scores? Its time to rethink learning supports. The State Education Standard, (Autumn 2002) National Association of State Boards of Education, Alexandria, VA.
  41. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2003). Rethinking School Psychology (Commentary on Public Health Framework Series) Journal of School Psychology 41, 83-90.
  42. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2003). Commentary: Advancing Mental Health Science and Practice Through Authentic Collaboration. School Psychology Review. 32(1), 55-58.
  43. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). Lenses Used Determine Lessons Learned. Journal of Educational and Psyschological Consultation. 13(3), 227-236.
  44. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). Guide 7: Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement. Guidebook in series, Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools. Developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.
  45. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2003). On Sustaining of Project Innovations as Systemic Change Journal of Education and Psyschological Consultation, 14(1), 1-25.
  46. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2005). Classroom Climate in S.W. Lee, P.A. Lowe, & E. Robinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of School Psychology, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
  47. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2004). Mental Health in Urban Schools National Institute for Urban School Improvement
  48. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2004). Mental Health in Schools: A Shared agenda. Report on Emotional & Behavioral Disorder in Youth. Vol4(3)
  49. P. Andis, J. Cashman, D. Oglesby, R. Praschil, H. Adelman, L. Taylor & M. Weist (2002). A Strategic and Shared Agenda to Advance Mental Health in Schools through Family and System Partnerships. The International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol 4(4).
  50. H. Adelman,& L. Taylor (2006).The School Leader’s Guide to Student Learning Supports: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
  51. H. Adelman,& L. Taylor (2006).The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
  52. H. Adelman,& L. Taylor (2005).Creating Caring Schools. Impact, Vol 18 (2) Spring.
  53. H. Adelman,& L. Taylor (2006).Mapping a School's Resources to Improve Their Use in Preventing and Ameliorating Problems. The School Services Sourcebook: A Guide for Social Workers, Counselors, and Mental Health Professionals, Oxford University Press
  54. L. Taylor, & H. Adelman(2006). Want to Work With Schools? What is Involved in Successful Linkages?. The School Services Sourcebook: A Guide for Social Workers, Counselors, and Mental Health Professionals, Oxford University Press
  55. Adelman, H.S., & Taylor, L. (2007). Reorganizing student supports to enhance equity. In E. Lopez, G. Esquivel, & S. Nahari (Eds.), Multicultural Hanbook of School Psychology. Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ
  56. Adelman, H.S., & Taylor, L. (2006). Mental health in Schools and Public Health. Public Health Reports, 121 (3), p 294-298
  57. Adelman, H. S. & Taylor, L. (in press). Enhancing Schools as Caring Environment, In R. Talley (Ed) Building Community Caregiving Capacity. Oxford University Press
  58. Adelman, H. S. & Taylor, L (2006). School and Community Collaboration to Promote a Safe Learning Environment. In State Education Standard, National Association of State Boards of Education. Vol. 7 (1), pp.38-43.
  59. Adelman, H. S. & Taylor, L. (in press). School-wide Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching. In B. Doll & J. Cummings (Eds.) Population-based Services of School Psychologists. National Association of School Psychologists
  60. Adelman, H. S. & Taylor, L. (in press). School Improvement: A Systemic View of What's Missing and What to Do About It. In B. Despres (Ed.) Systems Thinkers in Action: A Field Guide for Effective Change Leadership in Education. Towman & Littelfield
  61. Adelman, H. S. & Taylor, L. (in press). Best Practices in the Use of Resource Teams to Enhance Learning Supports. In A. Thomas & J. Grimes (Eds.) Best Practices in School Psychology - 5.
  62. Adelman, H. S. & Taylor, L. (2007). Systemic Change and School Improvement. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation. Vol. 17(1) pp. 55-77.

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