A school mental health program: Development and design

Abstract

This paper describes the development of an educational-clinical mental health team model that has been effective on all levels of a medium-sized public school system, from the grass roots of classroom teacher to the administrative offices of principal, school superintendent, and school board members. Essentially the program served to reinforce the generic role of teachers in the classroom with a team-oriented opinion. While the team approach often served to reinforce what was already taking place in the classroom, it also helped to make such classroom experiences both more psychologically intelligible and more consistently constructive within an ego-building frame of reference.

A Model for Elementary School Behavioral Science as an Agent of Primary Prevention.

“…The opportunities for enhancing ego development and psychological comfort appear to be great. We have a unique opportunity here to finally do what people in the clinical professions have only been talking about (Adamson, 1968;Bolman, 1968;Bower & Hollister, 1967;Caplan, 1961Caplan, , 1964Cohen & Gardner, 1967;Hersch, 1968;Roen, 1965;Stickney, 1968). Ours is not like other disciplines within the scientific community.…”