Current Issues and Future Directions in Mental Health Screening

Exploring Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Screening Approaches in U.S. Public School Districts

“…Schools have been advocated as a mechanism for improving behavioral services accessibility, providing a place for early identification of SEB issues and service provision (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2019). However, rather than serving a role in identification for prevention and early intervention, U.S. public schools have mainly employed reactive models that wait until student problems compound to a point necessitating intensive interventions such as specialized programs or out-of-school placements (Stiffler & Dever, 2015). To date, little is known about how schools nationally have adjusted to a shift in expectation for responsibilities that include proactive SEB identification procedures such as screening.…”