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Improving School Behavioral Health Quality

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Successful integration of mental health services into education systems can help remove barriers to service and promote student success. Quality school behavioral health (SBH) programs do this in order to address needs across all levels of schools’ multitiered systems of support (MTSS). One factor that supports this ability is collaboration between stakeholders in youth mental health service provision, including parents/caregivers, school staff, other students, and community organizations. Including youth in this collaboration is imperative for giving them a voice in their own mental health care as well as facilitating discussion of mental health issues among peers. Further, including mental health agencies in this collaboration can assist in the uptake and implementation of evidence-based practices and improve training of and data-based decision-making by school clinicians. Use of school-level data can help inform practice and strategies to prioritize mental health as well as ways to restructure whole-school and classroom-level changes that may help improve student functioning. Improving infrastructure focusing on all of these aspects can support the high-quality implementation of SBH programs within the context of schools’ MTSS.

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    Sommer C. Blair

  2. Psychology Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

    Darien Collins & Kathleen B. Franke

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  3. Medical University of South Carolina, Goose Creek, SC, USA

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Blair, S.C., Collins, D., Franke, K.B. (2020). Improving School Behavioral Health Quality. In: Weist, M.D., Franke, K.B., Stevens, R.N. (eds) School Behavioral Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56112-3_5

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