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Schools As a Vital Component of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health System

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ID23346303
AuthorsSharon Hoover (0000-0001-6362-2016, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for School Mental Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore (Hoover); Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C. (Bostic).), Jeff Bostic (Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for School Mental Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore (Hoover); Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C. (Bostic).), Jeff Q Bostic (0000-0002-0040-6612, University of Maryland, Baltimore)
Year2021
Volume72
Issue1
Pages37-48
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychiatric Services (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1075-2730 • E-ISSN: 1557-9700
PublisherAmerican Psychiatric Association Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1176/appi.ps.201900575
PMID33138711
OpenAlexW3097904438
LanguageEN
Citations received64
References cited58

This review examines the history and contemporary landscape of school mental health, describing evidence that schools are an essential component of the system of child and adolescent care and providing recommendations to advance this vital care delivery system. This literature review of scientific data and shifts to policy and practice in school mental health documents the evolution of collaboration between the education and mental health systems to support student mental health. This review describes best practices and provides examples for achieving the standards of the comprehensive school mental health systems model in states and local communities. Data demonstrate that multitiered systems of mental health support and services in schools, including mental health promotion, prevention, early intervention, and treatment, improve academic and psychosocial functioning and reduce risk of poor outcomes, including mental illness and school failure. Policy and practice shifts in the field reflect a movement toward integrating mental health systems into the education sector, including preparing the education workforce to promote mental health and to support early identification of and intervention to address mental illness. To create a full continuum of mental health supports for students, states and districts can draw on national best practices and state exemplars as they install multitiered systems of mental health supports in all schools, conduct universal student mental health monitoring, and coordinate school and community mental health systems.

Health promotion · Intervention (counseling) · Medical education · Mental health · Mental health law · Mental illness · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Psychosocial · Public health · Workforce · Child and Adolescent Health · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Early Childhood Education and Development · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology

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