This chapter describes how models, concepts, and skills of consultation play an important role in supporting bereaved students. Consultation by school-based mental health providers is ...
MoreThis chapter describes how models, concepts, and skills of consultation play an important role in supporting bereaved students. Consultation by school-based mental health providers is emphasized as a means of developing the knowledge and skills of teachers, administrators, staff, peers, and family caregivers to foster resilience and build capacity for early intervention, coping, and recovery through problem-solving processes and systems-level interventions. The availability of and access to consultation is examined. Such consultation can include indirect service to school and family caregivers, workshops and training modules with consultative follow-up, and use of the Internet and online interactive communities. Ways to overcome barriers are explored, including systems-level approaches that create opportunities for primary prevention and universal interventions that can reach many students and expand the capacity to support mental health. ...
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