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Approaches for evaluating the effectiveness of school mental health interventions are reviewed in terms of meaningfulness. The relevance of various indices is considered in relation to meaningful long-term gains for youth. We encourage the reader to consider the measurement of meaningful long-term gains when reading the chapters in this section.
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Evans, S.W., Capps, R.E. (2023). How Do We Know If a School Mental Health Intervention Is Effective: An Introduction to the Section on the State of the Science for School Mental Health Interventions. In: Evans, S.W., Owens, J.S., Bradshaw, C.P., Weist, M.D. (eds) Handbook of School Mental Health. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20006-9_1
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