School-Based Mental Health Practitioners: A Resource Guide for Educational Leaders.

ABSTRACT: School-based mental health practitioners can offer enhanced support to schools and students; yet their training, roles, and expertise vary. The roles of these professionals are often conflated, misunderstood, or marginalized in their utility throughout the school system. The purpose of this manuscript is to enhance the capacity of educational leaders to make informed hiring, contracting, and role assignment decisions that best fit school and student needs regarding school mental health services. We clarify the landscape of two distinct groups of qualified school mental health professionals-those who are education certified and those who are independently licensed; each group represents professionals from multiple disciplines. We illuminate similarities and differences of thes

SUBMITTER: Frey AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9559124 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature