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School-Based Practice in Action

Series Editor: Rosemary B. Mennuti, Ray W. Christner

This series provides school-based practitioners with concise practical guidebooks that are designed to facilitate the implementation of evidence-based programs into school settings, putting the best practices in action.

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  1. Early Childhood Education

    A Practical Guide to Evidence-Based, Multi-Tiered Service Delivery

    By Gina Coffee, Corey E. Ray-Subramanian, G. Thomas Schanding, Jr., Kelly A. Feeney-Kettler

    Series: School-Based Practice in Action

    In the past several years, models of multi-tiered service delivery have emerged as a framework for supporting the needs of school-aged children in schools across the country and have received much attention in scholarly publications of education and related fields. Despite the needs of young...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners

    Instructional Strategies and Assessment Tools for School Psychologists

    By Holly S. Hudspath-Niemi, Mary Lou Conroy

    Series: School-Based Practice in Action

    There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners increases school psychologists’ knowledge...

    Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Conducting Student-Driven Interviews

    Practical Strategies for Increasing Student Involvement and Addressing Behavior Problems

    By John J. Murphy

    Series: School-Based Practice in Action

    This user-friendly book equips school practitioners with practical skills and strategies for conducting student-driven interviews—conversations that invite students of all ages to take charge of school-behavior problems and build solutions based on their own strengths and resources. In contrast to...

    Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Serving the Gifted

    Evidence-Based Clinical and Psychoeducational Practice

    By Steven I. Pfeiffer

    Series: School-Based Practice in Action

    Designed for practitioners who work with the gifted, this volume is intended to serve as a practical and easy-to-use resource for working with gifted students, their teachers, and their parents and families. It provides timely, practical, evidence-based techniques and guidelines to help these...

    Published August 21st 2012 by Routledge

  5. Pediatric School Psychology

    Conceptualization, Applications, and Strategies for Leadership Development

    By Thomas J. Power, Kathy L. Bradley-Klug

    Series: School-Based Practice in Action

    In today’s schools, it is imperative that school-based mental health professionals be adequately trained in the knowledge and impact of pediatric health disorders on children’s academic, social, and emotional progress and performance. This book will provide practitioners and researchers with the...

    Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Responsive School Practices to Support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Students and Families

    By Emily S. Fisher, Kelly S. Kennedy

    Series: School-Based Practice in Action

    The needs and rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students and families are often ignored, generally misunderstood, and only rarely given priority by the school system. This book provides a practical and useful guide for school-based mental health professionals to...

    Published June 5th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Implementing Response-to-Intervention in Elementary and Secondary Schools

    Procedures to Assure Scientific-Based Practices, Second Edition

    By Matthew K. Burns, Kimberly Gibbons

    Series: School-Based Practice in Action

    An update to the bestselling first edition, this practical guidebook for implementing a school-wide Response-to-Intervention (RTI) model clearly and concisely presents issues from assessment and decision-making to Tiers I, II, and III interventions. The authors discuss what RTI is and why it is...

    Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Comprehensive Children's Mental Health Services in Schools and Communities

    A Public Health Problem-Solving Model

    By Robyn S. Hess, Rick Jay Short, Cynthia E. Hazel

    Series: School-Based Practice in Action

    Despite the growing emphasis on a population-based training and service delivery model for school psychology, few resources exist to provide guidance concerning how such services might be conceptualized and put into place. In this book, the authors propose a public health model for comprehensive...

    Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge

  9. A Guide to Psychiatric Services in Schools

    Understanding Roles, Treatment, and Collaboration

    By Shawna S. Brent

    Series: School-Based Practice in Action

    In order to provide comprehensive care to students with a wide variety of social and emotional challenges, close collaboration between psychiatrists and school-based mental health professionals is vital. This book provides practical information about psychiatric diagnoses and medications, as well...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge

  10. The Power of Family-School Partnering (FSP)

    A Practical Guide for School Mental Health Professionals and Educators

    By Cathy Lines, Gloria Miller, Amanda Arthur-Stanley

    Series: School-Based Practice in Action

    Ongoing, strategic Family-School Partnering (FSP) is an essential component of every educational community. FSP is a multi-dimensional process in which schools, families, and communities engage in shared actions to ensure a child’s academic, social, and emotional success. With this text, the...

    Published October 18th 2010 by Routledge