Integrating the school service array

Integrating the school service array
Even for professionals who work with adolescents and have seen it all, the number of youth with mental-health challenges is staggering, write Terry Richardson, Melissa Morrisette, and Laura Zucker in a November/December 2012 issue of Social Work Today. Half of all lifetime diagnosable mental health conditions begin by age 14, and one in five American adolescents shows significant symptoms of emotional distress, nearly 10 percent with symptoms that impair everyday functioning. Many schools have psychologists, social workers, and/or counselors, but some districts have taken a comprehensive approach that integrates a team of community mental-health professionals into the school service array. Services are therefore available to youth beyond the academic school year, and community mental-health clinicians, unlike school counterparts, can see students even if suspended, truant, in detention, or in the hospital. Many community mental-health providers have valuable and specific competencies, such as integrated substance abuse and mental-health services for youth; family, individual, and group therapies; medication management; case management; and an orientation toward assertive community outreach. Yet despite the incredible benefits and relative minimal costs of a school-based model, funding mechanisms outside of districts are essential, since without Medicaid or private or foundation funding, many comprehensive, school-based mental-health programs can't sustain themselves. More

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