Exam 15: School-Based Continuum of Care

At this prevention level, professional development opportunities should extend to community mental health providers to help establish interagency teams and extend our collaborative relationships with community resources.

Every day, children come to school unable to focus on their academics due to family and peer conflict, environmental stressors, and increasing rates of mental health problems.

This model endorses a continuum of services available to meet the broadest needs, with an emphasis on prevention.

Creating sustainable, systemic change is not an easy task and requires a great deal of time and training.

Describe universal prevention.How do you see yourself engaging in universal prevention activities as a school counselor?

Aggression appears to be a long-standing problem and if not addressed by Grade ______ is likely to persist into adulthood and result in negative outcomes.

Cuijpers et al.(2008) found that preventive interventions for adolescents reduced the incidence of depressive disorders by ________.

A useful framework to guide your efforts to identify the needs of your school is one that focuses on existing _______ and protective factors.

Resources available to meet the growing needs of children and adolescents are:

Efforts to identify groups that might be "at risk," can be quite minimal.

Over the last 20 years, the fields of education, counseling, and psychology have grown _______________ in the area of prevention science

Research supports that academic achievement and social-emotional health, are inextricably intertwined.

An effective program would be designed to strengthen the risk factors and reduce the protective factors.

When stakeholders share a common vision, feel empowered, and have support, systemic change will:

Describe why increased access to evidence-based services is imperative within schools.

Disorganized and unsafe neighborhoods and schools are associated with all but what: