TOPIC: Childhood and Adolescent Affect and Mood/Depression
(see also the Quick Find for Suicide Prevention)

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Introductory Packet
• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
• Affect and Mood Problems related to School Aged Youth

Information and Practice Resource
• About What Young People are Experiencing During the Pandemic
• Thinking Cautiously About Screening for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in Adolescents: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations and Implications for Schools
• Empathy, Compassion, and Addressing Student Misbehavior
• A personal perspective on depression among latino students
• Normalization and Popularization of Mental Illness and Its Impact:
  Personal Experience and a Look at Research Findings
• Why current psychotherapies for children and adolescents may be inadequate  




Newsletter
• Youth Suicide/Depression/Violence

Quick Training Aid
• Suicide Prevention
• School Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Adolescent Affect and Mood Problems

Practice Notes
• Grief and Loss
• When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others
• Countering the Over-Pathologizing of Students' Feelings & Behavior: A Growing Concern Related to MH in Schools
• About Supporting Those Who Seem Depressed

Resource Aid Packets
• School Helping Students Deal With Loss
• School Interventions to Prevent Youth Suicide (Technical Assistance Sampler)
• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools
• Student Psychotropic Medication: The School's Role

Policy & Program Reports & Briefs
• Suicide Prevention in Schools

Continuing Education
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools

Center Publications
• Addressing Trauma and Other Barriers to Learning and Teaching: Developing a Comprehensive System of Intervention

Guides/Guidance Notes
• Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment (Guidebook)
• Students in Distress
• Determinants of Students’ Problems (Guidance Notes)

Training Presentations
• Youth Suicide Prevention: Mental Health and Public Health Perspectives