Creating Safe and Supportive Schools and Fostering Students' Mental Health

Michael L. Sulkowski is Assistant Professor in the School Psychology Program and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona, USA. Philip J. Lazarus is past-President of the National Association of School Psychologists and Associate Professor and Director of the School Psychology Training Program at Florida International University, USA.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Section I: Creating Safe and Emotionally Healthy Schools

1. The Evolving Role of Educators

2. Safe and Supportive Schools

Section II: Fostering Students’ Mental Health

3. The Importance of Providing Mental Health Services in the Schools

4. The Promise of Social-Emotional Learning

5. Universal Interventions to Support the Mental Health of All Students

6. Resilient Classrooms & Targeted and Intensive Interventions

Section III: Supporting Nurturing Learning Environments

7. School Climate and Social Supports

8. School Connectedness and Engagement

9. Positive Psychology in the Schools

Section IV: Improving Student Behavior

10. School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports

11. Effective Behavior Management Strategies

Section V: Identifying and Helping Vulnerable, Victimized, and At-Risk Youth

12. Bully Prevention and Intervention

13. Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

14. Highly Vulnerable Student Populations

Section VI: Reducing School Violence and Preventing Suicide

15. Threat Assessment and Violence Prevention

16. Suicide Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention

Section VII: Preventing and Responding to Crises in the Schools

17. School Crisis Prevention

18. School Crisis Intervention

Afterword