Best Practices: System-Level Services

Third in the new Best Practices series, this book is critical for understanding your student body and all the underlying mechanisms through prevention programs, interventions, and family–school collaborations.

This staple resource guides you to:

• Develop effective prevention strategies

• Plan for systemic and organizational change

• Create and implement a crisis response plan

• Deliver health and mental health services in schools

• Build family-centered services and home–school collaboration

Topics include:

• Attention problems

• Bullying prevention

• Children with chronic illness

• Children with traumatic brain injuries

• Crisis intervention following a natural disaster

• Curriculum alignment

• Decreasing dropout

• Evidence-based school interventions

• Family–school meetings

• Medications for emotional and behavioral disorders

• Monitoring special education results

• Multitiered service delivery

• Partnering with parents

• Professional development of school personnel in delivering multitiered systems of support (MTSS)

• Promoting family engagement in education

• Responding to death in the school community

• School violence prevention

• School–community partnerships

• Strategic planning and organizational development

• Supporting students with severe low incidence disabilities

• Threat assessment

• Using DSM-5 and ICD-10