ERIC ED460501: The Relationship of School Based pdf

ERIC ED460501: The Relationship of School Based

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This paper uses data from a project in South Carolina that provides services to children with severe emotional disturbance (SED) to examine the role of schools in integrated service delivery. This study examined organizations participating in a demonstration project sponsored by the federal Center for Mental Health Services and administered by a mental health center in an urban area of South Carolina. A systems-level assessment measured differences in development and coordination among service organizations in the demonstration site (n=61) and its comparison community (n=39). In the urban demonstration site, organizations serving children with SED were coordinated through a system of care model and featured multi-systemic therapy, an ecological treatment model. Results of the study indicate schools were important service providers for children with SED, but they were not always highly integrated within a larger system of child mental health services. School-based mental health counselors, however, played an important role in bringing schools into the system of care, primarily through increased client referrals.

The presence of school-based mental health counselors was associated with more than twice as many client referrals and almost twice as many information exchanges from schools. (Contains 21 references.) (CR

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1996-02
• Year: 1996
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Agency Cooperation, Counseling, Counselors, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Integrated Services, Intervention, Mental Health Programs, Models, Program Effectiveness, Referral, School Role, Urban Areas, Polgar, Michael, Johnsen, Matthew, Calloway, Michael, Morrissey, Joseph P

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