Download or read book Exploring the Training and Experiences of School based Mental Health Professionals who Work with Latino Immigrant Youth written by Anna Baazova Fields and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the California K-12 education setting, Latino students make up 53% of the child population, totaling over 3.3. million students (California Department of Education, 2016). Many of these Latino immigrant youth face challenges, including living in poverty, exposure to violence, and acculturation stress, all of which lead to a need for mental health services. However, the literature has shown that 76.9% of Latino immigrant youth who have a mental health need received no services (Toppelberg, Hollinshead, Collins, & Nieto-Castañon, 2013). The K-12 public school setting is responsible for providing the majority of mental health services to Latino immigrant students who do gain access to services (Langley, DeCarlo Santiago, Rodríguez, & Zelaya, 2013). Latino immigrant youth accessing needed mental health services in the school setting in turn highlights the vital role of mental health providers who offer these services to students in K-12 public schools. Utilizing a qualitative multiple case study design, the researcher collected data using a basic demographic questionnaire and indepth interviews with 6 school-based mental health professionals in 5 different Southern California K-12 public school districts. Guided by the theory of cultural competence, the researcher gathered data about personal experiences, training and professional development, and personal needs when working to support Latino immigrant youth in participants’ schools. The current study revealed four major findings. First, mental health professionals stressed the importance of collaboration among all stakeholders—including school staff, community agencies, and students’ families—as a key component of providing necessary and effective services to Latino immigrant youth. Second, mental health professionals identified two-way language barriers with Latino immigrant youth and their families as a major struggle. Third, cultural competency and empathy toward the unique cultural identity of Latino immigrant youth and their families was identified as a significant tool when supporting the mental health of Latino immigrant youth. Fourth, mental health professionals asserted that in their role as therapists of Latino immigrant youth, they require additional training and professional development that incorporates education about cultural assimilation and migration.

Download or read book Handbook of Culturally Responsive School Mental Health written by Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools across the United States – as well as much of the world – are experiencing widespread change. Students are more diverse ethnically, academically, and emotionally. More attention is being paid to abuse and neglect, violence and bullying, and the growing inequities that contribute to student dropout. Within this changing landscape, cultural competence is imperative for school-based professionals, both ethically and as mandated by educational reform. The Handbook of Culturally Responsive School Mental Health explores the academic and behavioral challenges of an increasingly diverse school environment, offering workable, cost-effective solutions in an accessible, well-organized format. This timely volume updates the research on cultural competence in school-based interventions, describes innovative approaches to counseling and classroom life, and demonstrates how this knowledge is used in successful programs with children, adolescents, and their families. Populations covered range widely, from African American and Asian American/Pacific Islander families to forced migrants and children who live on military bases. By addressing issues of training and policy as well as research and practice, contributors present a variety of topics that are salient, engaging, and applicable to contemporary experience, including: - Adolescent ethnic/racial identity development. - Culturally responsive school mental health in rural communities. - Working with LGBT youth in school settings. - Cultural competence in work with youth gangs. - Culturally integrated substance abuse prevention and sex education programs. - Promoting culturally competent school-based assessment. - School-based behavioral health care in overseas military bases. - Developmental, legal, and linguistic considerations in work with forced migrant children. - Cultural considerations in work/family balance. The Handbook of Culturally Responsive School Mental Health is a must-have reference for researchers, scientist-practitioners, educational policymakers, and graduate students in child and school psychology; educational psychology; pediatrics/school nursing; social work; counseling/therapy; teaching and teacher education; and educational administration.

Download or read book Social Work Practice with Latinos written by Rich Furman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latinos are now the largest ethnic minority population in the United States and still they encounter a great deal of misunderstanding, prejudice, and discrimination. Utilizing a strengths-based perspective, Social Work Practice with Latinos addresses the unique needs of this diverse population. Written by practitioners and scholars from many disciplines, this book discusses social issues of consequence to Latinos and specific strengths and risk factors of the Latino community. They then offer methods that utilize these strengths to ensure a culturally-competent approach to practice with Latino populations. Each chapter is accompanied by key questions for personal and group reflection to facilitate discussion and understanding of these vital themes. The editors have nearly three decades of combined experience working with Latino populations inside and outside the United States. Drawing on this experience, they integrate these varied perspectives to prepare students and practitioners for practice with this richly diverse community.

Download or read book Working with Latino Youth written by Joan D. Koss-Chioino and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1999-06-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vital resource, which integrates development, culture, and psychological intervention, helps meet the challenge of addressing an array of culturally specific problems such as assimilation, discrimination, scholastic failure, pregnancy, substance abuse, and delinquency. The authors, Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Luis A. Vargas, present a dynamic new model for working with Latino youth that considers the individual within the context of their families, their communities, and their culture.

Download or read book Handbook of School Mental Health written by Steven W. Evans and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook provides thoughtful and provocative critiques of the science and practice of school mental health. It examines intervention science and implementation science and the study of professional development and stakeholder engagement. The volume outlines the relevant issues facing the field of school mental health and provides a framework for the areas of study. Chapters critique the science in a specific area, draw innovative connections between findings, and present new information about their area of expertise. This handbook provides a concise and critical update of the literature in school mental health and is an essential resource for those from the wide range of disciplines that constitute the science and practice of school mental health. Key topics featured include: Promoting meaningful engagement and leadership in school mental health by diverse stakeholders. Training, coaching, and workforce development in school mental health. Intervention science for children with specific needs (e.g., anxiety, depression, trauma, autism). Innovations in scaling-up and Implementation science, focusing on such topics as multitiered systems of support and scaleup of positive behavior support strategies. The handbook is an essential reference for researchers, graduate students, and other professionals in child and school psychology, special and general education, public health, school nursing, occupational therapy, psychiatry, social work and counseling, educational policy, and family advocacy.

Download or read book Essential Case Studies in Public Health written by Katherine Hunting and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Care Advocacy written by Jo Bennett and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of oral narratives, collected from participants at a school created for first-generation, immigrant youth. The narrations from the students, teachers, administration, professional staff, and support personnel document the power of caring relationships in an educational setting. The narratives underscore the importance of teachers, students, and staff working together and their stories are relevant for any school setting. It turns out that teachers and students both have a need, even a longing, for connection. The narratives bring Nel Noddings' Care Theory to life and show how this theory can be practiced both inside and outside the classroom to bring about a school-wide change in culture. From the receptionist to the principal; from the the social worker to the teacher, the study shows that the daily interactions are as important as the academics in the school setting to improve inequities. Social justice takes on a new meaning, with this focus on social exchanges and personal well-being. The book can benefit those in the field as well as in teacher and leadership preparation programs; those wanting to conduct research with vulnerable populations can also benefit from this study.

Download or read book Models for Practice With Immigrants and Refugees written by Aimee Hilado and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to establish a foundational framework for working with trauma-exposed immigrants and refugees, this important work introduces innovative approaches to address client mental health problems while supporting adjustment to life in a new country. This practice-oriented book emphasizes the relevance of Western approaches while reorienting Western concepts to be more culturally sensitive from a domestic and international perspective. Grounded in critical thinking and strengthened by an ecological systems perspective, the book presents six different models for applying and integrating Western theory and related practice strategies for working with individuals, families, groups, communities, organizations, volunteers, and local workforces.

Download or read book Working with Refugee Families written by Lucia De Haene and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of refugee family research and intervention forms a growing field of scientific study, focussing on the refugee family as the central niche of coping with, and giving meaning to, trauma, cultural uprooting, and exile. This important new book develops an understanding of the role of refugee family relationships in post-trauma healing and provides an in-depth analysis of central clinical-therapeutic themes in refugee family psychosocial interventions. Expert contributions from across transcultural psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy and social work have provided chapters on post-trauma reconstruction in refugee family relationships, trauma care for refugee families, and intersectorial psychosocial interventions with refugee families. This exploration of refugee family systems in both research and clinical practice aims to promote a systemic perspective in health and social services working with families in refugee mental health care.

Download or read book School Counselors Work with Immigrants written by Sabri Dogan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest educational attainment gap between any two groups is seen between English Language Learners (ELL) and non-ELL students. Of ELL students, the largest majority by far are immigrant students. Because school counselors are in a unique position that enables them to provide essential services to promote immigrant students' well-being, development, and success, it is important to explore school counselors' experiences and perceptions of their work. The purpose of this Phenomenological qualitative research study was to explore: (a) school counselors' perceptions of their competencies and what resources they utilize to develop their competencies in working with immigrant students and families, (b) school counselors' beliefs and attitudes toward being a social justice advocate and how these beliefs and attitudes affect their support and services to immigrants, and (c) school counselors' perceptions of their impact on linguistically diverse families' language policies (FLP) and their perceptions of how FLP influences student outcomes. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews from 13 school counselors who work at schools that have five percent or greater of immigrant students in the state of Ohio, in the United States of America. Seven major themes emerged from the data: (1) They feel competent in addressing immigrants' needs and challenges; however, their personal identities and experience impact their self-perceived competence level, (2) they believe that their training did not include counseling immigrants and was not sufficient for working effectively with immigrants, (3) they learn best about how to provide counseling services by willingly and intentionally leaving their comfort zones in order to seek out diverse experiences, (4) they need more professional development, language assistance, and collaboration with key stakeholders to improve their work, (5) The more they learn about immigrant students and families, they develop greater awareness of the individual differences in immigrant populations, as well as begin to develop greater humility about both the knowledge they have gained and how much they still have to learn, (6) social justice is at the heart of their work, and (7) They believe immigrant families should speak their native language with their children, and there was a range of opinions of whether or not FLP impacts student outcomes. In addition to the themes, four paradigms were identified based on the participants' perceptions and experiences in working with immigrant students and families: (1) Superficial Awareness, (2) Growing Awareness, (3) Flexibility (in cognition, affect, behavior), and (4) Culturally Competent School Counselor. Each paradigm is explained based on six domains: awareness/dimensionality, competence, affiliation with social justice advocacy, notion of FLP, involvement with translation, and what they think they need to improve. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for school counselors, counselor educators, educators, and researchers. Recommendations on how to better prepare school counselors in providing effective and efficient services and support to immigrant students and families are presented.

Download or read book Latina and Latino Children s Mental Health written by Natasha J. Cabrera and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of expert academics and practitioners examines the life circumstances that impact Latino/a youth growing up in two cultures—their native culture and that of the United States. What effect does growing up in an ethnic minority and perhaps in an immigrant family have on development? That is the overarching question Latina and Latino Children's Mental Health sets out to answer. The work examines all of the myriad physical, psychological, social, and environmental factors that undermine or support healthy development in Latino American children, from biology to economics to public policy. The first volume of this two-volume set focuses on early-life experiences and the second on youth/adolescent issues, treating such topics as children's development of a sense of self, development of linguistic skills, peer relationships, sexual orientation, and physical development. The work analyzes familial relationships, often an important resource that helps young people build resilience despite the stresses of migration. And it looks at patterns of behavior, social status, and social-goal orientations that differentiate Latino/a children and adolescents from their African American and European American peers.

Download or read book Struggling to Find Our Way written by Stephanie Oudghiri and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural communities across the United States are experiencing a rapid increase in the number of immigrant students. While the number of culturally and linguistically diverse students continues to grow within midwestern states, the demographics of teachers remain white, female, and monolingual. Often teachers have little to no training working with students and their families whose backgrounds differ from their own. Thus, there is a great urgency for teachers to develop culturally competent teaching practices that address the needs of all students. The purpose of this year-long, school-based narrative inquiry was to examine the beliefs, attitudes, and practices of rural educators as they described their work with Latinx immigrant, elementary students, negotiated the “space” between a professional and personal identity and demonstrated an ethic of care. This inquiry is arranged into “livings, tellings, retellings, and relivings” (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000, p. 70) and serves to shed light on the entwined lived experiences of myself, my participants, and the community in which we reside. Grounded in Noddings (1984; 2012) work on authentic caring and Valenzuela’s (1999) concept of culture and caring relations for Latinx students, Swanson’s middle range theory of care (1991, 1993) which served as the conceptual framework that illuminated how my participants discussed working with and caring for their Latinx immigrant students. In Struggling to Find Our Way: Rural Educators’ Experiences Working with And Caring for Latinx Immigrant Students, Stephanie Oudghiri’s one-year school-based narrative inquiry is a carefully crafted balance of creativity and rigor with the right notes to engage the reader, challenge them to think, wonder at what they can do, and imagine possibilities for a more socially just education system. In this book, Oudghiri examines the beliefs, attitudes, and practices of two white teachers and one Hispanic paraprofessional working with and caring for immigrant students in a rural Indiana community. Due to the sensitive nature of this inquiry, which focuses on teachers’ relationships with vulnerable populations (immigrant and undocumented), Oudghiri’s book serves as a model for active engagement by creating a strong sense of place, a strong sense of who these teachers and students are, and a strong sense of being in the midst of community and school life. What is unique and compelling about Oudghiri’s writing, is her focus on stories of the teachers working in her school site, and the children in their classrooms. She provides strong evidence using a compassionate lens and the art of storytelling to illuminate lives in the school.

Download or read book Transforming School Mental Health Services written by Beth Doll and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive ten-step sequence for implementing population-based services that improve wellness and academic success for individual students and entire schools, and offers suggestions for engaging parents.

Download or read book Understanding the Induction Experience of Licensed Mental Health Counselors Working in New York City School Based Mental Health Clinics written by Raymond Allen Blanchard (III) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mental health symptoms and diagnosis rates of children and adolescents is rising in the United States (Oliver & Abel, 2018). To support the growing mental health rates and offset the work being provided by school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists, schools are contracting with community mental health agencies to provide mental health counseling services in the school setting (Weist et al., 2017b). For some community mental health agencies, they are opening school based mental health clinics (SBMHCs) to provide more comprehensive mental health counseling services to reduce families having to seek services in their community (Weist et al., 2017b). The providers working in the school setting are licensed mental health professionals including professional counselors or mental health counselors and social workers (Mills & Cunningham, 2017). Prior research explored how school counselors acclimated to the school setting when new to the school community (Matthes, 1992; Curry & Bickmore, 2012;2013), however there is no prior research that explored the acclimation of licensed mental health counselors (LMHCs) within the school setting, including LMHCs working in SBMHCs. This study sought to understand the induction experiences of LMHCs working in SBMHCs located in New York City schools. Drawing from the teacher preparation literature, induction is the process where novice teachers supported and mentored typically at the beginning of their career (Curry & Bickmore, 2012, 2013; DeAngelis Peace, 1995). Utilizing a phenomenological qualitative approach to understanding the LMHCs experiences, nine participants were recruited and shared their induction process across two semi-structured interviews. Data was analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis which allowed for both a descriptive and interpretative understanding of the findings. As a result, the findings yielded six themes and twelve subthemes which are presented from a descriptive and interpretive lens. A discussion of the findings is presented alongside the relevant literature in addition to the strengths and limitations of the study. Recommendations for future research concludes the dissertation.

Download or read book Handbook of School Counseling written by Hardin L.K. Coleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of this forty-eight chapter Handbook is to provide a comprehensive reference source that integrates counseling theory, research and practice into one volume. It is designed to meet the needs of entry-level practitioners from their initial placement in schools through their first three to five years of practice. It will also be of interest to experienced school counselors, counselor educators, school researchers, and counseling representatives within state and local governments.

Download or read book The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Correctional Rehabilitation written by Leam A. Craig and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory, assessment, and treatment strategies for offenders across forensic populations, with practical examples and discussion of often overlooked cultural considerations The Wiley Handbook of What Works in the Rehabilitation of People Who Have Offended comprehensively outlines effective rehabilitation strategies for offenders while acknowledging the challenges in implementation and discussing ethical considerations, potential biases, and the need for ongoing evaluation. The book introduces the current state of effective practices, outlines up-to-date risk assessment processes for various crime types, investigates effective treatments for diverse forensic populations, explores treatments for those in prison and mental health settings, and examines the often-overlooked cultural factors influencing rehabilitation efforts. This Second Edition, expanded from 25 to 32 chapters, has been written by leading researchers, seasoned professionals, and academics, providing a wealth of expertise and diverse perspectives. Each chapter offers a well-researched and balanced review of existing literature, laying a solid foundation for comprehending the effectiveness of various rehabilitation approaches. Practical examples enhance the content's applicability, emphasizing evidence-based practices crucial for accountability and effectiveness in the criminal justice system. Some of the sample topics discussed in The Wiley Handbook of What Works in the Rehabilitation of People Who Have Offended include: Risk, Need, and Responsivity principles used in the assessment and triage of offenders and evidence for the Good Lives Model in supporting rehabilitation and desistance from offending Recidivism risk in people convicted of intimate partner violence and treatment of aggressive and problematic adjudicated youth in a secure psychiatric setting Treatment of persons convicted of sexual offenses in the community, including online offending Strategies to prevent and reduce gang involvement and rehabilitation of intellectually disabled individuals who have harmful sexual behavior Offering a valuable evidence-based coverage in the pursuit of effective rehabilitation strategies, the Second Edition of The Wiley Handbook of What Works in the Rehabilitation of People Who Have Offended is an indispensable resource for anyone involved in the criminal justice system, including professionals, policymakers, researchers, and students.

Download or read book The School Services Sourcebook Second Edition written by Cynthia Franklin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A guide for school-based professionals"--cover.