Perspectives on School Crisis Response: Reflections from the Field

This book offers a unique collection of narrative case studies that capture the responses of mental health professionals to tragedies in schools and are designed to connect key concepts and skills with real life application. By citing evidence-based theories and interventions with vivid real world accounts, this volume aims to highlight the multi-phased, multi-disciplinary nature of school crisis response while emphasizing the need for effective coordination and collaboration. It provides a powerful professional development resource for school crisis teams, psychologists, counselors, social workers, nurses, resource officers, administrators and teachers, and training university students, who will face similar situations.

Jeffrey C. Roth, PhD, NCSP, retired after over twenty years of co-leading a school district crisis response team. He is a licensed psychologist and adjunct professor at Wilmington University and was awarded School Psychologist of the Year by the Delaware Association of School Psychologists in 1993. He volunteers with American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health.

Benjamin S. Fernandez, MS Ed, serves as a lead school psychologist for Loudoun County Public Schools and chair of the National Association of School Psychologist’s (NASP) School Safety and Crisis Response Committee. He was named School Psychologist of the Year in 2012 by NASP.