Family-School Collaboration in Multi-Tiered Systems of Support

This handbook offers a comprehensive, critical examination of the science and practice of school mental health. It integrates research on intervention and implementation science with studies of professional development, stakeholder engagement, and workforce training. Each chapter provides thoughtful critiques of current knowledge, highlights innovative connections across findings, and presents new insights from leading experts. By framing the key issues in school mental health, this volume equips researchers, practitioners, and policymakers with a nuanced understanding of how to improve outcomes for children and adolescents.

Key Features:

• Critically examines intervention science and implementation science within school mental health.
• Explores professional development, coaching, and workforce training to strengthen service delivery.
• Addresses interventions for children with specific needs, including anxiety, depression, trauma, and autism.
• Highlights innovations in scaling up evidence-based programs, such as multitiered systems of support and positive behavior strategies.
• Promotes meaningful engagement and leadership by diverse stakeholders in school mental health initiatives.
• Serves as an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and professionals across child and school psychology, education, public health, social work, psychiatry, occupational therapy, counseling, policy, and advocacy.