The School Services Sourcebook: A Guide for School-Based Professionals

The School Services Source Book, Third Edition is filled with evidence informing practices for school mental health professionals--social workers, counsellors, psychologists, and other student support professionals. This practical and comprehensive book is designed purposefully to communicate the nuts and bolts of delivering effective behavioral health interventions while at the same time integrating information on how to be responsive to diversity, equity and inclusion in practice. Ready access to knowledge and skills needed for how to practice effectively with behavioral health and neurodevelopmental conditions, traumatized populations, school safety issues; dropout prevention, crisis intervention, how to use groupwork, and parental and family interventions are covered along with other essential topics.

Readers will learn proven practices for helping students with depression and anxiety, trauma, suicide prevention and assessments, substance use, child abuse, school violence and safety threats, psychopharmacology, ethics and legal issues, work with BIPOC populations, and important policy and macro issues in easy-to -read chapters. A concise, user friendly format orients readers to each issue with a Getting Started Section, then moves smoothy to What We Know, What We Can Do, Tools and Practice Examples, and Key Points to Remember. Several Case studies and original videos demonstrate practice approaches. Quick reference tables, charts, web, and further learning resources make it easy to continue to improve knowledge and skills. Each chapter has been crafted by experts in the field with the ultimate goal of giving school-based practitioners the information they need to deliver effective services in schools.

Dr Cynthia Franklin, LCSW-S is the Stiernberg/Spencer Family Professor in Mental Health in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Franklin is an international expert on solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) and school social work and school mental health services. Her career has been devoted to advances in practice and research on SFBT with the aim of preparing school social workers and other school mental health professionals for practice in schools. She was named one of the 100 most influential contemporary social work faculty (Journal of Social Service Research, 2019) and received the Gary Lee Shaffer award for academic contributions to the field of school social work.

Dr. Mary Beth Harris is retired from the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California where she directed campus-based and virtual programs in School Social Work. Prior to entering social work education in 2000, Harris was a family therapist, clinical director, and program administrator in the U.S.-Mexico border region for more than 20 years. Dr. Harris designed numerous courses across school social work and family practice curriculum. Her research and published works centered primarily around school social work and adolescent pregnancy. She developed Taking Charge, a widely implemented school-based life skills program for pregnant and parenting mothers. She subsequently co-authored a training manual with Dr. Cynthia Franklin for that program, Taking Charge: A School-Based Life Skills Group Curriculum for Adolescent Mothers, published by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Paula Allen-Meares is an international expert on human services in educational settings, physical and mental health in under-resourced communities, and educational access and success. She served as Chancellor of University of Illinois at Chicago and Vice President of University of Illinois. Currently, she is John Corbally Presidential Professor Emerita and Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also serves as Dean and Professor Emerita and the Norma Radin Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan and previously served as Dean of the School Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.