A guidebook that helps educators, counselors, school professionals, and families identify students struggling with behavioral health problems that interfere with successful learning. It is also written for the students themselves, and provides information that will help them understand and cope with common problems such as anger, depression, substance abuse, stress, divorce, and low self-esteem.
LifeWorks is designed to be woven into the daily curriculum and includes easy-to-use activity sheets and other materials that motivate students to discuss difficult issues and to participate more effectively in the classroom and in society.
Nancy DiNatale, M.P.S., ATR, is coordinator of school-based outreach services at Foundations Behavioral Health, an adolescent treatment facility in Doylestown, PA.