School-Based Family Counseling for Crisis and Disaster

Brian A. Gerrard, PhD, is a Chief Academic Officer of the Western Institute for Social Research, Berkeley, California, and the Chair of the Institute for School-Based Family Counseling. Emily J. Hernandez, EdD, LMFT, is an Associate Professor and the Program Coordinator of the School-Based Family Counseling Program at California State University, Los Angeles. Prof. Sibnath Deb, PhD, DSc, is the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Government of India. Currently, he is also Adjunct Professor of the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia.

Part 1: Overview 1. The School-Based Family Counseling Approach to Strengthening Families and Schools in Crisis and Disaster 2. Chronic Disaster: A South African Perspective 3. A Positive Deviance Approach for Overcoming Crisis and Disaster 4. The Leadership Role of the School Principal in Times of Disaster or Crisis Part II: School Intervention 5. Developing Systems for Crisis Intervention with School Personnel 6. How Schools Can Help Students Cope with the Stress of a Major Disaster 7. How to Lower Stress and Strengthen Student Executive Functions During Crisis and Disaster 8. Group Counseling in Schools Following a Crisis or Disaster 9. Using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Students Who Have Experienced Trauma Part III: Family Intervention 10. Un Respiro de Vida, A Breath of Life: Giving Wings to Farmworker Families During the COVID Crisis 11. Conjoint Family Counseling with Grief and Loss 12. Couples in Crisis: A Poststructuralist Approach 13. A Narrative Approach to Strengthening Child and Family Relationships 14. Family-based Interventions for Children in Crisis Part IV: School Prevention 15. Big Talks for Little People: Child Mental Health Module 16. Preventing School Violence Through School Engagement 17: Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences: The Role of Buddhism and Resilience 18. Internet Intimidation: Responding to Cyberbullying of School Children via the Digital Citizenship Curriculum 19. An ACES Approach to Developing Trauma-sensitive Schools Part V: Family Prevention 20. An Internal Family Systems Approach to Building Disaster Resilience 21. Teacher Development: Promoting Teacher-Family Engagement to Support Crisis Preparedness 22. Strengthening Families During Crisis Through Teacher-Parent Engagement 23. Collaborating with Immigrant Students, School Personnel and Families in Times of Disaster 24. Intimate Parenting to Build Family Resilience Part VI: Community Intervention 25. Addressing the Aftermath of Violence in a School Context: An SBFC Approach 26. Community-based Psychosocial Intervention for Child Protection in Disaster 27. How to Develop a Volunteer Global Psychological First Aid Organization: The Disastershock Global Response Team