The School Counselor's Mental Health Sourcebook: Strategies to Help Students Succeed

by Rick Auger

Overview

The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model urges school counselors to know every student and broaden their knowledge of mental health disorders. With more students in need of mental health services than ever before, the timing is ideal for a guide that equips staff to meet these challenges. The School Counselor's Mental Health Sourcebook provides tools for keeping students on track, including:

Methods for addressing many disorders, including anxiety, autism, and other disruptive behavior disorders
Intervention strategies that work
Effective ways to collaborate with families from various cultures
The impact of culture and race on a child's mental health
Communicating with teachers and families about students' needs

Rick Auger describes the disorders and strategies with a balance of simplicity and clinical depth. This time-saving resource gives busy school counselors strategies for helping students succeed in school and in life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629145648
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	01/27/2015
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	679,029
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Rick Auger has been involved in the field of children’s mental health for over twenty-five years. He was a school psychologist in an urban school district, a predoctoral intern in several outpatient mental health clinics, editor of Professional School Counseling, and has been a faculty member in the Department of Counseling and Student Personnel at Minnesota State University, Mankato since 2000. He lives in Mankato, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Intervention Basics
3. Culture, Race, and Children’s Mental Health
4. Disruptive Behavior Disorders
5. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
6. Mood Disorders
7. Anxiety Disorders
8. Autism Spectrum Disorders
9. Communicating with Teachers and Families about Students’ Mental Health Needs
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

This book provides a solid foundation of information on mental health disorders and their potential impact on student success. It serves as a very useful tool for new professionals learning to navigate the school system, as they support student needs and foster home-school relationships.

Amy Runningen

"Rick Auger reviews some of the more common mental health disorders that educators might encounter and provides school counselors with recommendations for how they might approach intervention.His propensity toward cognitive and behavioral approaches matches well with school counselors’ ability to provide school-based intervention. The examples are specific enough to be helpful but also broad enough to allow for flexibility when accommodating individual student difference. School counselors will find this a useful resource as they develop counseling intervention plans as well as when they serve as a consultant to parents and teachers."

Amy Milsom

"Practitioners will find this book easy to follow, comprehensible, and most importantly, helpful forimproving the liveschildren and adolescents navigating the K-12 years. And isn’t that, after all, what education should be all about?"

Walter B. Roberts Jr.

"This is an excellent sourcebook with useful and practical tips on how to assist students, parents, teachers and counselors to work with the students who need our assistance the most."

Carol U. Cox

"This book is a focused hard-worker: a resource eager to improve the quality of school life for all students. I plan to purchase it for each of my twelve counselors, everyone in special education, the clinicians, our three principals, and the campus media centers. It’s just that good! Everyone in the schoolhouse needs a copy to red-line, highlight, and flag the corners of almost every page."

Marian White-Hood