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School-based mental health services : creating comprehensive and culturally specific programs /

This book challenges 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...

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Main Author: Nastasi, Bonnie K.
Other Authors: Moore, Rachel B., Varjas, Kristen M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2004]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:School psychology book series.
Subjects:
Enfants > Santé mentale, Services de > États-Unis.
Ethnopsychiatrie > États-Unis.
Élèves du primaire > Santé mentale, Services de > États-Unis.
Adolescents > Santé mentale, Services de > États-Unis.
Child mental health services > United States.
School children > Mental health services > United States.
Teenagers > Mental health services > United States.
Psychiatry, Transcultural > United States.
Child mental health services.
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
School children > Mental health services.
Teenagers > Mental health services.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book challenges 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 culture-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.
This book is designed for practitioners, researchers, and graduate students who are interested in meeting the mental health needs of children and adolescents in the 21st century through comprehensive school-based programming. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).
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Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 3 mai 2006).
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 232 pages)
Bibliography:Bibliogr.: (pages 191-212).