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Title: Ending the Marginalization of Mental Health in Schools: A comprehensive Approach
Description: This chapter highlights four fundamental matters that our work suggests must be pursued if the marginalization is to end. One involves enhancing the policy framework for school improvement in ways that incorporate mental health and psychosocial concerns under a broad and unifying umbrella concept that is established as a primary and essential component of a school’s mission. The second matter is that of reframing interventions in ways that are consistent with such a broad, unifying concept. The third matter calls for rethinking the organizational and operational infrastructure at a school, for the feeder pattern of schools, and at the district level. In addition, finally, there is the problem of facilitating major systemic change in organizations such as schools that have wellestablished institutional cultures. Keywords: fragmentation, marginalization, mental health, schools, learning support, psychosocial, problems, school based,

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