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A 17 page paper discussing the problems of and reasons for lack of mental health services availability in public schools. The paper discusses structural changes in schools organization; cognitive therapy; cultural implications; interdisciplinary efforts; and recent attempts to increase mental health services to public schools. The paper concludes that the programs promoted by the President's Commission have been shown to be highly effective and school-specific programs are available at low or no cost aside from the cost of screeners' time. Concerned school-based social workers should conduct a full cost-benefit analysis to take to the local government. Though screening and treatment of public school students can be costly, it also should supply extensive cost savings to the community in terms of adult care that can be avoided in the future. Bibliography lists 21 sources.
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17 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSpsycSvsPubSch.rtf
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Decades ago, a public school student could elect to see the schools guidance counselor at any time and for any reason. Guidance counselors in the 1970s
maintained college and scholarship information in their offices, but their primary focus in many schools was trained on the mental health of the students seeking them out and some of
those who did not. When a child needed a non-family adult to talk to or when a teacher suspected that a specific student would benefit from trained counsel, it
was the guidance counselor who filled the role. Todays guidance counselors often seek to fill the role of the past, but budget and
privacy constraints - along with the threat of lawsuits on the part of parents - have converged to reduce the role of the public school guidance counselor to the individual
who: (1) ensures that the students schedule is consistent with state and local graduation requirements; (2) deals with all non-academic recordkeeping; and (3) maintains a school-specific "clearing house" for
college scholarships and other post-secondary educational services. In the past the school guidance counselor often was the only point of access to mental
health services available to students. Changes over the years have diminished that role to the point of eliminating it in many school districts across the country. The purpose
here is to assess the lack of availability of mental health services available through American public schools. School Issues Learning disabilities; dysfunctional families;
external influences of video games and the Internet; increased pressures to perform; and general teenage angst all can be seen as directly contributing to increased problems in schools. Combined
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