The School Services Sourcebook: A Guide for School-Based Professionals
"This volume presents school social workers with a comprehensive array of best practices for the difficult issues faced in today's schools, such as overcoming obstacles to good mental health, crisis intervention, bullying, and responding to the mandates of IDEIA 2004 and NCLB. As school mental health professionals, school social workers will find the evidence-based practices described in terms that are understandable and applicable to actual everyday school challenges. Seldom has a book promised so much and carried through so completely. It is a privilege to be able to recommend this sourcebook to today's school social work practitioners and those to come."--Judith Kullas Shine, President, School Social Work Association of America"This is an impressive volume, containing some 114 chapters about best practices for students with emotional, behavioral, and other mental health issues--written in clear, compelling, and down-to-earth language.  It fills an important niche by reviewing the research base behind a comprehensive range of specific school practices, but when research evidence does not exist, the chapters provide practical and well-grounded suggestions for practitioners to follow.  This book takes a big step forward in grounding school mental health practice in empirical evidence."--Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood, Columbia University"Should be required reading for social workers, counselors, mental health workers, and anyone else who is interested in providing services in schools. This massive volume tells it all, interpreting evidence-based research for practical use, replete with examples, tables, charts, and forms...all you need to know if you want to help children and their families deal with the broad spectrum of mental health issues."--Joy Dryfoos, co-editor, Community Schools in Action"This fine edition at a good price might work will in my course, where we discuss the fall of the republic, and the rise of the Empire."--Glen Coper, Brigham Young University