Best Practices: Student-Level Services

Second in the new Best Practices series, this book provides the foundation for supporting students' mental health in both academics and social development. This staple resource guides you to:

• Develop interventions for academic problems

• Create classroom strategies that build behavioral, social, and life skills

• Implement interventions for mental health, social, and behavioral problems

• Facilitate transition to college for students with learning disabilities

• Address and intervene against school refusal

• Set progress monitoring goals for academic skill improvement

Topics include:

• Anxiety and depression interventions

• Behavioral interventions

• Classroom discipline

• Fostering student engagement

• Fostering student resilience

• Group counseling

• Increasing academic engaged time

• Instructional strategies for reading

• Intensive academic interventions

• Positive psychology

• Preventing academic failure

• Promoting study skills

• Reading interventions

• School refusal interventions

• School-to-work transitions for disabled students

• Services for gifted students

• Setting progress monitoring goals

• Social skills training

• Transitions to college for students with learning disabilities