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