Comparing Stakeholders’ Knowledge and Beliefs About Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Health in Schools

Moving Toward Implementation of Universal Mental Health Screening by Examining Attitudes Toward School-Based Practices

“…Accumulating evidence from this study and previous research (e.g., Briesch et al, 2020;Greer et ATTITUDES TOWARD MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING 18 al., 2012) indicates that parents are likely to endorse UMHS. As such, schools are encouraged to improve home-school and community partnerships as they engage in early psychosocial intervention and prevention efforts.…”

“…When considered alongside previous research examining the acceptability and usability of various mental health screening tools, the present study's results provide further evidence that UMHS is considered an acceptable practice by teachers. Furthermore, this study extends the available multistakeholder research (Briesch et al, 2020) by providing additional evidence of parents' similarly positive beliefs about the acceptability and appropriateness of UMHS during the early school years. Knowledge about parent-reported perceptions of UMHS may be used to guide school personnel, such as teachers and school psychologists, who are involved in implementing mental health screening practices.…”

“…Furthermore, this study extends the available multi-stakeholder research (Briesch et al, 2020) by providing additional evidence of parents' similarly positive beliefs about the acceptability and appropriateness of UMHS during the early school years. Knowledge about parent-reported perceptions of UMHS may be used to guide school personnel, such as teachers and school psychologists, who are involved in implementing mental health screening practices.…”

“…Teachers and their principals elaborated that emotional and behavioral screening would be more feasible if incorporated into existing programs, and if results were communicated to families and used in follow-up efforts with students (Greer et al, 2012). In another survey of multiple school stakeholders, parents were supportive of UMHS practices and perceived there to be pressure from both school and community sources to change current mental health screening practices (Briesch et al, 2020); however, their willingness to participate in UMHS was not examined. Given the greater variability among teacher respondents regarding their willingness to regularly participate in UMHS, future research should investigate factors that differentiate teachers who are more willing to engage in UMHS.…”

Supporting Students’ Mental Health Needs: A Primer for Secondary School Leaders

“…School leaders are tasked with ensuring each student’s well-being and designing systems of supports to meet the range of all learners (National Policy Board for Educational Administration, 2015) and as such, have expressed a desire to meet the social, emotional, and behavioral health needs of students in their schools (Briesch et al, 2020; Moon et al, 2017). This paper will describe a framework for school administrators seeking to systemically and systematically support the mental health needs of their students.…”