School-Based Mental Health Services

by Nastasi, Bonnie K.; Bernstein, Rachel Moore; Varjas, Kristen M.; Moore, Rachel B.

• ISBN13: 9781591470182
• ISBN10: 1591470188
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Summary

School-Based Mental Health Services fills an important gap by challenging school psychologists to think broadly about how to best use their training and skills to empower individuals, schools, and communities. The authors urge readers to choose not only "efficacious" programs but also programs that are effective through sensitive adaptation and modification on the basis of ethnicity, race, and culture of local schools and communities. This volume presents the Participatory Cultural-Specific Intervention Model (PCSIM)--an innovative model grounded in theories and techniques of applied cultural anthropology and school psychology. This intriguing model establishes a continuous feedback-driven, self-perpetuating process that balances research with application. It includes an inventive array of participant observations, expert consultation, research, and continuous program refinement that extends the traditional model of intervention into program development. Practitioners will be attracted to this innovative and far-reaching approach and will quickly see how to bec

Author Biography

Bonnie Kaul Nastasi received her PhD from Kent State University in 1986. She is associate director of interventions at the Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut. Rachel Bernstein Moore completed her PsyD in school psychology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is currently working as a school psychologist in the Schenectady city school district in New York Kristen M. Varjas received her PsyD in school psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is currently an assistant professor in the Counseling and Psychological Services Department at Georgia State University, Atlanta

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Children and Adolescents	p. 3
Foundations of the Participatory Culture-Specific Intervention Model	p. 33
Components of the Participatory Culture-Specific Intervention Model: An Illustration	p. 53
Participatory Culture-Specific Intervention: Formative (Research) Phases	p. 79
Participatory Culture-Specific Intervention: Program (Intervention) Phases	p. 109
The Participatory Culture-Specific Intervention Model: Challenges and Future Directions	p. 181
References	p. 191
Author Index	p. 213
Subject Index	p. 219
About the Authors	p. 231
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