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Title: Advancing mental health in schools: Guiding frameworks and strategic approaches

Description: This chapter (1) highlights the need for a broad perspective in thinking about mental health in schools, (2) offers a working draft of comprehensive and multifaceted guidelines that provide a basis for operationally defining mental health in schools, (3) proposes an integrated framework for promoting healthy development and addressing barriers to learning in ways that can expand the impact of mental health in schools, and (4) describes strategies the national Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA currently pursues to advance the field.

Access at:   http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/publications/advancingmhinschools.pdf (For Personal Use Only)