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Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth

Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth :Developmental Variations, Problems , Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and TreatmentPrepared by the Center for MH in Schools & Student/Learning Supports updated in 2018. The Center is co-directed by Howard Adelman and Linda Taylor and operates under the auspices of the School Mental health Project, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA, Email: Website: free to copy and share this document. ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Mental health in Schools1I. Keeping the Environment in Perspective as a Cause of Commonly Identified Psychosocial Problems11A. Labeling Troubled and Troubling Youth B. Environmental Situations and Potentially Stressful Full Range of Programs to Address Behavioral, Emotional, and Learning ProblemsA.

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1 Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth :Developmental Variations, Problems , Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and TreatmentPrepared by the Center for MH in Schools & Student/Learning Supports updated in 2018. The Center is co-directed by Howard Adelman and Linda Taylor and operates under the auspices of the School Mental health Project, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA, Email: Website: free to copy and share this document. ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Mental health in Schools1I. Keeping the Environment in Perspective as a Cause of Commonly Identified Psychosocial Problems11A. Labeling Troubled and Troubling Youth B. Environmental Situations and Potentially Stressful Full Range of Programs to Address Behavioral, Emotional, and Learning ProblemsA.

2 A Continuum of Community- School Programs: Primary Prevention Through Treatment16B. Accommodations to R educe Problems19C. Developing Systems at a School for Problem Identification, 27 Triage, Referral, and Management of Care D. Treatments for Psychosocial Problems and Disorders Identified Psychosocial Problems : Developmental Variations, Problems , Disorders, and InterventionsA. Attention Problems31 Conduct and Behavior Problems324462B. C. D. E. Anxiety Problems Affect and Mood Problems Social and Interpersonal the School s Capacity to Prevent and Ameliorate ProblemsA. C apacity Building for Teachers and School Staff100 The Role of Support Staff110112B.

3 C. D. Forming Partnerships with ParentsFostering Students Social and Emotional Development119 Time for Straight Talk about Mental health Services and MH in SchoolsMoving Forward: MH in Schools & Student/Learning Supports24101696120E. Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Access and Use122 PrefaceSchool systems are not responsible formeeting every need of their when the need directly affectslearning the School must meet thechallenge. Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, 1989 Estimates of the number of School aged children with emotional Problems vary. Incidence and prevalence figures are controversial, with estimates ranging from 2-3% to 22%.

4 For a critique of current data, see the Center's 2018 document Youngsters Mental health andPsychosocial Problems :What are the Data? numbers increase when those referred to as at risk are included. Research suggests, however, that there are a considerable number of false positive misdiagnoses ( , the labeling of youngsters who do not have true disabilities/disorders). What is clear is that schools can accomplish their goal of teaching only when they have addressed the Psychosocial Problems that interfere with students' learning. In schools, youngsters with serious emotional and learning Problems usually are assisted under the auspices of "special education.

5 " Of course, many students with behavior, learning, and emotional Problems don't meet the criteria for special education. Their needs must be addressed through support programs and other accommodations. This resource provides frameworks and strategies to guide schools as they encounter Common Psychosocial Problems . It is designed as a desk reference aid. After an introductory overview of mentalhealth in schools: Part I stresses ways to keep theenvironment in perspective as a cause ofcertain types of Problems . Part II frames the full range of programs that allow a School and community to address Psychosocial Problems . Part III covers five of the most Common "syndromes" students manifest andschools agonize over:>attention Problems >conduct and behavior Problems >anxiety Problems >affect and mood Problems >social/interpersonal Problems Part IV explores ways to increase a School scapacity to prevent and ameliorate provide a normalizing perspective, the descriptions adopted are those used in the1996 American Academy of Pediatrics manual (The Classification of Child and Adolescent Mental Diagnoses in Primary Care --DSM-PC).

6 This framework differentiates developmental variations, Problems , and disorders in ways that provide a good basis for identifying minor developmental differences and early symptoms so that minor concerns can be prevented from escalating into major disorders. Following this discussion, the focus is on intervention -- emphasizing use of "accommodations" as a first strategy and the role of empirically supported treatments. iiAt the UCLA Center for MH in Schools & Student/Learning Supports, we havedeveloped a variety of materials relevant to specific problem areas and for schoolimprovement. See the >Online Resource Catalogue -- . >Online Clearinghouse Quick Finds >Center Website Search health in Schools 2 Time for Straight Talk about Mental health Services and MH in SchoolsWhen you hear the term Mental health in Schools or School Mental health , what comes to mind?

7 Probably you think about students who have psychological Problems , about what servicesthey need, and how schools don t provide enough of such services. This is not surprising given thewidespread tendency for the term mental health to be thought of as referring to mentaldisorders/illness and for relevant interventions to be seen as services ( , counseling/therapy). As a result, many well-intentioned initiatives and policy reports have focused on expanding mentalhealth services in schools. Bluntly stated, however, advocacy for more mental health services inschools often detracts from efforts to encourage policy makers to address the full range of mentalhealth concerns confronting School staff, students, and their families.

8 Our analyses of policy and practice stress understanding the following matters as key to advancinga broad approach to mental health in schools.* The concept of mental health encompasses a continuum of concerns ranging frompromoting positive social and emotional development to treating mental disorders. Mental health Problems are fully enmeshed with Psychosocial and educational Problems . Given the above, schools have a role to play in (a) promoting positive mental health ( ,social-emotional development), (b) preventing learning, behavior, and emotionalproblems, (c) intervening as early as feasible when such Problems arise, and (d) treatingsevere and chronic Problems . However, since the mission of schools is education, a mental health agenda (andespecially a clinical services agenda)

9 By itself is too narrow to be a high priority for oursociety s concerned with enhancing the role of mental health in schools must guide policy makersto a clear understanding of the many factors that are interfering with learning and teaching the large number of students who are experiencing learning, behavior, and emotionalproblems the fragmented and marginalized state of affairs related to the limited set of services,programs, and initiatives currently provided as student/learning supports the small proportion of students reached the counterproductive competition for sparse the above realities work against enhancing every student s civil right to equity of opportunityfor success at School and all this, it is time to focus on transforming student/learning supports.

10 Doing so is fundamentalto improving intervention effectiveness in ways that enhance equity of opportunity, promote wholechild development, and engender a positive School climate. Doing so requires ending themarginalization of student/learning supports in School improvement policy and then framing andoperationalizaing them as a unified, comprehensive, and equitable system that weaves togetherschool and community resources. 3In the process, a broad definition of mental health in schools can be embedded into a transformedsystem of student/learning supports. Doing so will help reduce the unrealistic and often inappropriate call for more and more one-on-one directservices counter the mistaken view that collocating community services on School campuses canever be a sufficient approach to filling critical intervention gaps at schools and forenhancing community and home engagement increase classroom, School -wide, and community interventions that can reduce the needfor one-on-one services facilitate the weaving together of School , home, and community resources to gaineconomic benefits and enhance outcomes enhance coordination and cohesion of all resources ( School , community, family)


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