Aaron R. Lyon, E. Bruns, Ericka S. Weathers, Nick Canavas, Kristy A. Ludwig, A. Vander Stoep, D. Cheney, E. McCauley
{"title":"Taking evidence-based practices to school: using expert opinion to develop a brief, evidence-informed school-based mental health intervention","authors":"Aaron R. Lyon, E. Bruns, Ericka S. Weathers, Nick Canavas, Kristy A. Ludwig, A. Vander Stoep, D. Cheney, E. McCauley","doi":"10.1080/1754730X.2013.857903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1754730X.2013.857903","url":null,"abstract":"School-based mental health services offer unparalleled opportunities for providing accessible care to children and adolescents. Research indicates that services available in schools are rarely based on evidence of effectiveness and are typically disconnected from the larger school context. To address these issues, the current paper presents initial studies to inform the development of a brief, evidence-based, flexible mental health intervention that fits the school context while maintaining clear structure. Results from two qualitative research studies – key informant interviews with school mental health experts and a nominal group decision-making process with stakeholders – are presented, both of which were aimed at informing intervention development and testing assumptions about how best to design an effective, context-specific mental health intervention that can be flexibly applied in educational settings. An explicit focus on educational outcomes within the context of mental health service delivery was identified as a key component of this integration. The paper concludes with a discussion of how this research has influenced the ongoing development of the intervention protocol, exemplifying a collaborative and iterative approach to developing school-based programmes.","PeriodicalId":89653,"journal":{"name":"Advances in school mental health promotion","volume":"7 1","pages":"42 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1754730X.2013.857903","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60326952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vinetha Belur, Michael L Dennis, Melissa L Ives, Robert Vincent, Randolph Muck
{"title":"Feasibility and impact of implementing motivational enhancement therapy-cognitive behavioral therapy as a substance use treatment intervention in school-based settings.","authors":"Vinetha Belur, Michael L Dennis, Melissa L Ives, Robert Vincent, Randolph Muck","doi":"10.1080/1754730x.2014.888223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1754730x.2014.888223","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The expansion of behavioral health services to school-based health centers under the Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) presents an opportunity to improve access to substance use disorders treatment for youth and reduce their substance use, and emotional, health, and school problems. We explore the feasibility of implementing five to seven sessions of motivational enhancement therapy-cognitive behavioral therapy (MET/CBT) in school settings relative to a matched cohort in community settings. Results indicate that MET/CBT in school settings is feasible, effective, and cost-effective. Moreover, it reaches youth earlier after the onset of substance use and has the possibility to reduce existing health disparities for girls and ethnic minorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":89653,"journal":{"name":"Advances in school mental health promotion","volume":" ","pages":"88-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1754730x.2014.888223","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40580183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The need and opportunity to expand substance use disorder treatment in school-based settings.","authors":"Michael L Dennis, H Westley Clark, Larke N Huang","doi":"10.1080/1754730x.2014.888221","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1754730x.2014.888221","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, we explore the unmet need for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment among youth, its consequences, and the opportunity to address this gap due to the expansion of behavioral health services to school-based settings under the Parity and Affordable Care Acts. We discuss the importance of using evidence-based approaches to assessment and treatment to ensure effectiveness and cost-effectiveness and show how the severity of SUD is related to a wide range of school, substance, mental, health, and health care utilization problems. Next, we introduce the other three articles in the special issue that further demonstrate the feasibility and impact of using these evidence-based practices in school-based settings, the challenges of identifying and interviewing with youth, and the need for a full continuum of interventions. In each of these areas we try to draw out the policy implication of these trends and papers.</p>","PeriodicalId":89653,"journal":{"name":"Advances in school mental health promotion","volume":"7 2","pages":"75-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423344/pdf/nihms-1724830.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39397533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An evaluation of training for lay providers in the use of Motivational Interviewing to promote academic achievement among urban youth.","authors":"Patricia Simon, Nadia L Ward","doi":"10.1080/1754730X.2014.949062","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1754730X.2014.949062","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined training outcomes for lay service providers who participated in a Motivational Interviewing (MI) training program designed to help increase intrinsic motivation and academic achievement among urban low-income and minority youth. Seventeen lay academic advisors received 16 hours of training in MI. Two, two-hour booster sessions plus five, two- hour weekly group supervision sessions were conducted with lay advisors over a period of seven months. One-hundred percent of lay advisors (n =17) participated in all training, booster sessions and assessments. Seventy-one percent of lay advisors (n=12) completed all group supervision sessions and submitted tapes for review. MI training was associated with increased knowledge of MI principles among lay service providers; increased proficiency in responding to simulated clients in an MI consistent style; increased use of MI adherent behaviors in sessions with real clients and maintenance of high motivation to use MI from pretest to posttest. Although lay advisors increased their knowledge of MI, further training is required for advisors to increase competence in delivering MI. Overall, Implications for using MI in the context of school-based settings is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":89653,"journal":{"name":"Advances in school mental health promotion","volume":"7 4","pages":"255-270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4561511/pdf/nihms711437.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34059446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor's Note","authors":"M. Weist","doi":"10.1080/1754730x.2013.835541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1754730x.2013.835541","url":null,"abstract":"For this last issue under my tenure as lead editor of Advances, we are fortunate to have a special issue guest edited by Michael Pullman, Eric Bruns, Brian Daly and Mark Sander, on one of the most important issues for the school mental health field – strategies to achieve and document connections to academic outcomes. Thank you to this great team of guest editors, and I extend my enthusiastic best wishes to Sharon Stephan as she takes over as lead editor for the journal.","PeriodicalId":89653,"journal":{"name":"Advances in school mental health promotion","volume":"6 1","pages":"225 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1754730x.2013.835541","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60326739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aaron R Lyon, Cameo Borntrager, Brad Nakamura, Charmaine Higa-McMillan
{"title":"From distal to proximal: Routine educational data monitoring in school-based mental health.","authors":"Aaron R Lyon, Cameo Borntrager, Brad Nakamura, Charmaine Higa-McMillan","doi":"10.1080/1754730X.2013.832008","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1754730X.2013.832008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research and practice in school-based mental health (SBMH) typically includes educational variables only as distal outcomes, resulting from improvements in mental health symptoms rather than directly from mental health intervention. Although sometimes appropriate, this approach also has the potential to inhibit the integration of mental health and schools. The current paper applies an existing model of data-driven decision making (Daleiden & Chorpita, 2005) to detail how SBMH can better integrate routine monitoring of school and academic outcomes into four evidence bases: general services research evidence, case histories, local aggregate, and causal mechanisms. The importance of developing new consultation protocols specific to data-driven decision making in SBMH as well as supportive infrastructure (e.g., measurement feedback systems) to support the collection and use of educational data is also described.</p>","PeriodicalId":89653,"journal":{"name":"Advances in school mental health promotion","volume":"6 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3866920/pdf/nihms514069.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31978018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Michael, Abby E. Albright, J. Jameson, Rafaella Sale, C. Massey, Alex Kirk, Theresa E. Egan
{"title":"Does cognitive behavioural therapy in the context of a rural school mental health programme have an impact on academic outcomes?","authors":"K. Michael, Abby E. Albright, J. Jameson, Rafaella Sale, C. Massey, Alex Kirk, Theresa E. Egan","doi":"10.1080/1754730X.2013.832006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1754730X.2013.832006","url":null,"abstract":"Given the prevalence of mental health difficulties among children and adolescents, schools have become a suitable context for providing psychological services to those who may otherwise go untreated. The co-occurrence of mental health impairments and academic problems has been widely cited, and many school mental health (SMH) programmes have begun to assess academic variables in treatment outcome. The current study evaluated a rural SMH programme's success at treating symptoms of psychological distress among high school participants and the potential association with participants' attendance, grade point averages (GPAs) and discipline referrals. Participants were 58 high school students between 14 and 18 years old. Results indicate that non-manualized cognitive behavioural therapy administered for an average of 14.88 sessions was successful at treating mental health concerns, as measured by a self-report questionnaire collected several times throughout treatment. In addition, a large proportion of students demonstrated improvements or stability in attendance and discipline when comparing baseline and post-treatment data, though no differences emerged between the time points for the sample as a whole. Although the findings regarding academic outcomes were not impressive overall, individual outcomes varied widely, with slightly over half of the students recording higher GPAs than at baseline. Furthermore, the fact that stability rates across the variables were reasonably high might suggest that we consider widening the definition of success to include protection from decline, reserving expectations for improvement only for those who present with difficulties in that particular academic outcome. The findings documented here illustrate the need for more nuanced approaches to understanding the relationship between intervention and academic performance.","PeriodicalId":89653,"journal":{"name":"Advances in school mental health promotion","volume":"6 1","pages":"247 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1754730X.2013.832006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60326313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel D McQuillin, John D. Terry, Gerald G. Strait, Bradley H. Smith
{"title":"Innovation in school-based mentoring: matching the context, structure and goals of mentoring with evidence-based practices","authors":"Samuel D McQuillin, John D. Terry, Gerald G. Strait, Bradley H. Smith","doi":"10.1080/1754730X.2013.832009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1754730X.2013.832009","url":null,"abstract":"Youth mentoring is a popular and well-respected volunteer activity in the USA. Although there is support for the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of community-based mentoring (CBM), the research on school-based mentoring (SBM) – the most popular form of youth mentoring – is mixed. Most of the SBM studies find inconsistent or small effects. The reason for the difference in the success of CBM and SBM may be the unique context, structures and goals of SBM relative to CBM. In an effort to guide SBM programmes towards larger and more consistent positive results, the authors review context-specific considerations of providing mentoring in schools. We present several evidence-based practices that are compatible with SBM and should strengthen the effects of this popular intervention. To illustrate the importance of these considerations, we provide a case example of redeveloping a failed SBM programme into a promising programme by reviewing two iterative randomized evaluations. Finally, we encourage school-based mental health experts' involvement in the redevelopment of SBM.","PeriodicalId":89653,"journal":{"name":"Advances in school mental health promotion","volume":"199 1","pages":"280 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1754730X.2013.832009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60326343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Pullmann, Ericka S. Weathers, Spencer Hensley, E. Bruns
{"title":"Academic outcomes of an elementary school-based family support programme","authors":"M. Pullmann, Ericka S. Weathers, Spencer Hensley, E. Bruns","doi":"10.1080/1754730X.2013.832007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1754730X.2013.832007","url":null,"abstract":"School-based family support programmes (FSPs) work within schools to build partnerships with families, promote family engagement, address family needs, provide mentorship to students and increase access to community resources. Very few programme evaluation studies of FSPs have been conducted. We report on findings from a participatory evaluation of an FSP operating in 28 elementary schools, with emphasis on whether the programme had an impact on student-level and school-level academic outcomes. Analyses approaching, but not reaching, statistical significance indicated that the FSP may have been related to the increased availability of external community resources in schools and reductions in mobility. However, in the absence of a randomly assigned control group, there were no indications that the programme was related to improvements in student attendance, disciplinary actions or standardized test scores. Implications for practice and research are described.","PeriodicalId":89653,"journal":{"name":"Advances in school mental health promotion","volume":"6 1","pages":"231 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1754730X.2013.832007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60326436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving the evaluation and impact of mental health and other supportive school-based programmes on students' academic outcomes","authors":"M. Pullmann, E. Bruns, B. Daly, M. Sander","doi":"10.1080/1754730X.2013.835543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1754730X.2013.835543","url":null,"abstract":"Schools are under increased pressure to demonstrate that all programming promotes student academic achievement. As a result, school-based programmes originally designed to address non-academic issues are now being asked to demonstrate the impact on academic outcomes. The current special issue is the first of two that will examine the association between school-based non-academic services (such as school mental health, family support and mentoring) and students' academic success. These papers provide empirical tests of three programmes and commentary on theoretically and empirically based recommendations for improvement. The final paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of one approach. As these articles highlight, tying the activities of these supportive programmes more closely to academic outcomes, setting clear academic goals, monitoring academic progress and providing feedback to practitioners about progress towards these goals may help increase the probability of non-academic programmes positively impacting academic outcomes.","PeriodicalId":89653,"journal":{"name":"Advances in school mental health promotion","volume":"6 1","pages":"226 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1754730X.2013.835543","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60326860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}