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Preservice Training for School Mental Health Clinicians

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Handbook of School Mental Health

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As an increasing number of schools partner with community based providers to help address the mental health needs of students, there is a greater need for more comprehensive pre-service school mental health training, particularly for clinicians who have only worked in hospital and community mental health settings. This chapter presents a graduate level interdisciplinary course on school mental health (Best Practices and Innovations in School Mental Health) that was developed to equip graduate mental health and health students with an appreciation and understanding of how to effectively provide high quality, evidence-based services in schools, within a three-tiered intervention framework. The course focused on addressing four key content areas: (1) Why mental health in schools? (2) Setting up Shop in Schools, (3) Important Stakeholder Perspectives, and (4) Evidence-based Practices in Schools. The syllabus, as well as specific class activities and assignments are reviewed, with strengths and areas for improvement considered.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Center for School Mental Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 737 West Lombard Street, 4th Floor, Baltimore, MD, 29208, USA

    Nancy A. Lever Ph.D. & Lindsey O’Brennan Ph.D.

  2. School of Social Work, 525 West Redwood Street, Baltimore, Maryland, MD, 21201, USA

    Michael Lindsey Ph.D.

  3. Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, 1512 Pendleton Street, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    Mark D. Weist Ph.D.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

    Mark D. Weist

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Nancy A. Lever

  3. Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Catherine P. Bradshaw

  4. Department of Psychology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA

    Julie Sarno Owens

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Lever, N.A., Lindsey, M., O’Brennan, L., Weist, M.D. (2014). Preservice Training for School Mental Health Clinicians. In: Weist, M., Lever, N., Bradshaw, C., Owens, J. (eds) Handbook of School Mental Health. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7624-5_4

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