TOPIC: Student and Family Assistance (including some family counseling and support)

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Chapter in Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System
• Student and Family Special Assistance

Self-study Survey
• Student and Family Special Assistance

Training Tutorials
• Students & Family Assistance Programs and Services to Address Barriers to Learning

Technical Aid Packets
• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care
• School-Based Mutual Support Groups (For Parents, Staff, Older Students)
• Welcoming and Involving New Students and Families

Quick Training Aids
• Case Management in the School Context

Information Resources
• Child and Adolescent MH Therapy and Schools: Annotated Outline Focused on Key Concerns
• Children with Incarcerated Parents: The Role of Schools
• LGBTQ+ Students: Family Reactions and School Support
• Neglect Experienced by Children of Substance Abusing Parents: Implications for Schools

• About Supporting Those Who Seem Depressed
• Agencies Addressing Problems of Children and Youth: Pursuing a Continuum of Intervention and Working with Schools
• Developing Systems at a School for Problem Identification, Triage, Referral, and Management of Care
• Involving Parents in Counseling
• Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Student Access and Use
• Students in Distress
• Welcoming Strategies for Newly Arrived Students and Their Families

• What Schools Can Do to Welcome and Meet the Needs of All Students and Families

• Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning

• Case/Care Management
• Domestic Violence
• Early Childhood Development
• Parent/Home Involvement in Schools
• Parenting Skills
• Student and Family Assistant Programs and Services: Outcomes

• Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities
• Enlisting Appropriate Parental Cooperation and Involvement in Children's Mental Health Treatment

• Afterschool: Supporting Family Involvement in Schools
• Best Practices for Families with Children Who Experience Substance Abuse, Juvenile Delinquency, and Serious Emotional Disturbance
• Boundaries between Parent and Family Education and Family Therapy: The Levels of Family Involvement Mode
• Building Successful Partnerships: A Guide for Developing Parent and Family Involvement Programs
• Challenges and Opportunities in Children's Mental Health: A View from Families and Youth
• Combating the Opioid Crisis and Other Substance Misuse: Schools, Students, Families
• Depression, Substance Abuse, and Domestic Violence: Little is Known About Co-Occurrence and Combined Effects on Low-Income Families
• Effectiveness Evaluation of the Positive Family Support Intervention: A Three-Tiered Public Health Delivery Model for Middle Schools
• Engaging Families and Other Systems in School-Based Treatment: Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Treatment Team
• Ethical dilemmas faced by family therapists
• Expanding the developmental school counseling paradigm: Meeting the needs of the 21st century student
• Family Engagemnet in Education and Intervention: Implementation and Evaluation to Maximize Family, School, and Student Outcomes
• Family Therapy
• Integrating School and Family Counseling: Practical Solutions
• Online counselling and the Internet: Perspectives for mental health care supervision and education
• School-Based Family Counseling: Overview, trends, and recommendations for future research
• Schools, Families, and Communities Affecting the Dropout Rate: Implications and Strategies for Family Counselors
• Shared Decision-Making in Youth Mental Health Care: Using the Evidence to Plan Treatments Collaboratively
• State Strategies to Meet the Needs of Young Children and Families Affected by the Opioid Crisis
• Strategies for Scaling Effective Family Focused Preventive Interventions to Promote Childrens Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health
• Social Capital, Family Violence, and Neglect
• A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
• A systematic review of shared decision making interventions in child and youth mental health: synthesizing the use of theory, intervention functions, and behavior change techniques
• Therapists' perspectives on home-based family therapy
• Training school counselors to do family counseling
• What adolescents seeking help teach us about a school-based counseling service
• What approaches for promoting shared decision-making are used in child mental health? A scoping review

• Family Support America
• Global Family Research Project
• National Association of School Psychologists
• National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
• Parents Helping Parents
• Through the Looking Glass

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