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Further Advancing the Field of School Mental Health

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We are pleased to bring to you this second edition of the Handbook of School Mental Health, with each of us involved in careers that emphasize bringing effective programs and services to promote students’ positive behavior, health, mental health, and academic success in the most universal setting, “where they are,” in schools. We have all been deeply involved in training, practice, research, and policy in the emerging and increasingly prominent school mental health (SMH) field, as well as in efforts to interconnect work occurring in each of these four realms of action.

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    1Please note that some in the field prefer the term “school mental health” and others prefer “school behavioral health.” Numerous discussions sponsored by CSMH have sought to reach consensus on the use of one term, and the clear conclusion is that this will not happen, hence acceptance of multiple terms used to describe the work.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, 1512 Pendleton Street, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    Mark D. Weist

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Center for School Mental Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 737 West Lombard Street, 4th Floor, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

    Nancy A. Lever

  3. Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Hampton House 839 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA

    Catherine P. Bradshaw

  4. Department of Psychology, Center for Intervention Research in Schools, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA

    Julie Sarno Owens

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Weist, M.D., Lever, N.A., Bradshaw, C.P., Owens, J. (2014). Further Advancing the Field of School Mental Health. In: Weist, M., Lever, N., Bradshaw, C., Owens, J. (eds) Handbook of School Mental Health. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7624-5_1

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