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Meeting the needs of children at-risk for mental health problems and meeting the needs of children and adolescents already demonstrating need for intervention is a huge undertaking. It involves significant organizational change to move schools toward meeting student mental health needs in the face of enormous constraints in funding and in regard to high-stakes testing. Nevertheless, we need to move ahead and make every effort to meet these needs. In doing so, we need to think about both the efficiency and the efficacy of our interventions.

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Macklem, G.L. (2011). Support for the Use of CBT in Schools. In: Evidence-Based School Mental Health Services. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7907-0_7

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