TOPIC: Assessment and Screening

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Policy & Program Reports & Briefs
• Screening Mental Health Problems in Schools

Center Brief Report
• Mental Health of Children and Youth and the Role of Public Health Professionals
• Mental Health of Children and youth: The Important Role of Primary Care Health Professionals

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

Introductory Packets
• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning (Introductory Packet)
• Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning (Introductory Packet)
• Evaluation and Accountability (Introductory Packet)
• Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs (Introductory Packet)

Quarterly ejournal/newsletter
• Countering LD and ADHD False Positive Diagnoses: Another Pandemic Challenge
• Labeling Troubled Youth: The Name Game
• Response to Intervention

Practice &  Policy Notes
• Minimizing Referrals Out of the Classroom
• Interviewing and Monitoring Tools
• Can there be too much emphasis on gathering more data?

Guides to Practice
• Prereferral Interventions
• Response to Intervention
• RTI and Classroom & Schoolwide Learning Supports: A Guide for Teachers and Learning Supports Staff

Information Resource
• Assessment in Schools: From the Perspective of Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Schools and the Challenge of LD and ADHD Misdiagnoses
• Just a Label? Some Pros and Cons of Formal Diagnoses of Children
Arguments About Whether Overdiagnosis of ADHD is a Significant Problem
• SAT for College Admission: Should it be Optional?
• Thinking Cautiously About Screening for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in Adolescents: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations and Implications for Schools

Quick Find
• Substance Abuse
• Needs and Assests Assesesment and Mapping

Quick Training Aid
• Assessment & Screening (Quick Training Aid)

Resource Aid Packet
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs
• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools

Technical Aid Packet
• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care

Net Exchange Responses
• Assessment Instruments