1st Edition
Perspectives on School Crisis Response Reflections from the Field
This book offers a unique collection of narrative case studies that capture the responses of mental health professionals to tragedies in schools and are designed to connect key concepts and skills with real life application. By citing evidence-based theories and interventions with vivid real world accounts, this volume aims to highlight the multi-phased, multi-disciplinary nature of school crisis response while emphasizing the need for effective coordination and collaboration. It provides a powerful professional development resource for school crisis teams, psychologists, counselors, social workers, nurses, resource officers, administrators and teachers, and training university students, who will face similar situations.
Introduction: Perspectives on School Crisis Response
Section 1: School Crisis Response to Transportation Accidents
1. Fatal Car Crash: Tag You’re It – Reflections of a New Leader
J. Douglas DiRaddo
2. Remembering Carlos: Professional and Personal Reflections
Andrew Vengrove
Section 2: School Crisis Response to Death of a Student
3. Response to Sudden Deaths: A Primary Role for School Psychologists
Anthony Pantaleno
4. Death in the Classroom: Severe Emotional Trauma
Jeffrey C. Roth
Section 3: School Crisis Response to Death of a Teacher/Staff Member
5. Death of an ELL Teacher: School Researcher Experiences a Crisis
Sara M. Castro-Olivo
6. Cancer Sucks: Deaths of a Teacher and a Nurse
Christina Conolly
7. Illness and Death of an Elementary School Principal
Melissa Heath
Section 4. School Crisis Response to Death by Suicide
8. Suicide Postvention Using the PREPaRE Model
Terri A. Erbacher
9. Student Suicide on Campus: Response and Resilience
Kathy Bobby
10. Suicide on the School Campus: Contagion Magnified?
Lea Howell & Richard Lieberman
11. Critical and Emerging Needs in a Suicide Cluster: Lessons in Crisis Response, Long-term Planning, and Coordination
Cynthia Dickinson, Richard Lieberman & Scott Poland
Section 5: School Crisis Response to Natural Disasters
12. Children of Katrina: A View from Texas and Mississippi
Gabriel I. Lomas & David J. Denino
13. Anticipating Needs after Katrina: Welcoming Children and Families
School District Memorandum
Section 6: School Crisis Response to School-Related Violence
14. Hope and Healing: A Community Response to a School Shooting
Cathy Kennedy-Paine
15. Responding to Shootings in My School District: Commitment to Crisis Prevention and Intervention
Scott Poland
16. School Survives a Cycle of Violence
Jeffrey C. Roth
Section 7: School Crisis Response to Child Maltreatment
17. Betrayal of a School Community
Jeffrey C. Roth
Section 8: School Crisis Response: Current and Future Directions
18. Current and Future Directions in School Crisis Response
Terri A. Erbacher & Melissa A. Reeves
Biography
Jeffrey C. Roth, PhD, NCSP, retired after over twenty years of co-leading a school district crisis response team. He is a licensed psychologist and adjunct professor at Wilmington University and was awarded School Psychologist of the Year by the Delaware Association of School Psychologists in 1993. He volunteers with American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health.
Benjamin S. Fernandez, MS Ed, serves as a lead school psychologist for Loudoun County Public Schools and chair of the National Association of School Psychologist’s (NASP) School Safety and Crisis Response Committee. He was named School Psychologist of the Year in 2012 by NASP.
"A perfect blend of research, practical application, and personal insight; an important resource for all school mental health professionals."
Frank J. Zenere, EdS, chair, Crisis Management Program, Miami-Dade County Public Schools"This book’s firsthand accounts of how schools have responded to a variety of crisis situations make it a valuable crisis preparedness resource. Editors Roth and Fernandez are to be commended for assembling a well-respected group of school crisis response experts who, from their own crisis response experiences, provide guidance on empirically-informed school crisis response and intervention."
Stephen E. Brock, PhD, NCSP, LEP, professor and school psychology program coordinator, California State University, Sacramento
"In their introduction to Perspectives on School Crisis Response, the editors indicate that this ‘is a book of stories,’ including stories of sorrow, hope, and people helping others. This compelling introduction encapsulates the book’s essence. When reading each chapter, it is impossible not to experience a myriad of emotions. The authors do an excellent job at highlighting their experiences, while simultaneously providing the reader with concrete recommendations on how to respond to school crises."
Jacqueline A. Brown, PhD, NCSP, assistant professor of psychology, acting director, School Psychology Graduate Training Programs, The University of Montana"Ben Fernandez and Jeffrey Roth deliver an invaluable resource and training tool for practitioners of school safety in Perspectives on School Crisis Response. Vivid real-world accounts of best practices and evidence-based theory from the field—and from multiple disciplines and perspectives—provide much needed context for an all-inclusive and comprehensive approach to school safety."
Michele Gay, MEd, executive director/co-founder, Safe and Sound Schools
