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Integrating Mental Health Services Into Schools

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the primary and complementary functions that are fundamental for school based centers to meet mental health and psychosocial needs of students?

A. Direct services and instruction B. Coordination, development, and leadership related to programs, services, resources, and systems C. Establishing a comprehensive approach that involves the family D. Enhancing connections with community resources

Phases of Health Center Integration, Outreach, and Networking

2. Integrated & coordinated services within the health center can improve triage and treatment of both physical and psychosocial problems while benefiting staff develop and encouraging mutual support.

A. True B. False

With School Programs

3. Finding the best match between the student's needs and available options is the first step in enhancing mental health services for all students in the school, while determining which students are most at risk is the second step.

A. True B. False

Resource Mapping and Integrated Referral Systems

4. When a student issue requires a referral to outside services, the referral process should incorporate specific steps for deciding on appropriate courses of action, ensuring contact is made, and:

A. Monitoring whether the resources are effective B. Determining if ready access to extra support and expertise is provided C. Making sure that adequate crisis intervention is included D. All of the above

Guidelines Regarding Confidentiality and Communication

5. In working with school personnel, mental health center staff will find that the nature of sharing information at schools is quite similar to sharing in clinical settings, with confidentiality being the priority.

A. True B. False

What Is A Learning Supports Resource Team?

6. A school's Learning Support Resource Team can take responsibility for enhancing use, analyzing how existing resources are deployed, and clarifying how they can be used to build a comprehensive, multifaceted, and _________ approach.

A. Extensive B. Pertinent C. Adaptable D. Cohesive

7. As school budgets have tightened, there has been an increased trend toward reducing school-owned student support staff and contracting with community services for specific services, which has limited the ability to address such areas as poor academic performance, dropout rates, gang violence, teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, racial conflict, and so forth.

A. True B. False

With the Community

8. While working with the community takes time to connect with other busy people and effort to work productively to establish a trusting professional relationship, it provides the opportunity to expand the network of programs and services and establish mutual support mechanisms for staff capacity building.

A. True B. False

Mechanisms to Promote Integration and Address Challenges

9. Two functions that can play a key role in helping to integrate mental health activity at a school are management of resources for programs and service and:

A. Ensuring that programs share the same vision B. Identification of student needs C. Management of care D. Providing adequate training, time, and support

10. Each of the following is a correct statement about coordinating resources for a family of schools EXCEPT:

A. Natural starting points for such community teams tend to be addressing substance abuse and developing prevention programs for teen pregnancy and risky sexual behavior B. Multischool teams are very attractive to community agencies who often find they don't have the time or personnel to link with individual schools C. A multischool team for several schools provides a mechanism to help ensure cohesive and equitable deployment of resources throughout a community and also can enhance the pooling of resources to reduce costs D. "Interdisciplinary and cross training" helps create both the trust and the skills needed for the kind of working relationships a large-scale collaborative requires

Concluding Comments

11. The success of efforts to integrate school, center, and community resources depends on numerous factors including a clear policy vision about integration, leadership and committed colleagues, processes that can overcome challenges to collaboration, time to plan, support at each step of the way, and appropriate accountability.

A. True B. False

Figure 2. Meeting the Needs of all Students

12. Short term counseling and family support should be provided through community resources in the primary system of prevention phase.

A. True B. False


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