Routledge School-Based Family Counseling: An Interdisciplinary Practitioner's Guide

Written by experts in the field, School-Based Family Counseling: An Interdisciplinary Practitioner’s Guide focuses on how to make integrated School-Based Family Counseling (SBFC) interventions, with a focus on integrating schools and family interventions, in an explicit step-by-step manner. Departing from the general language used in most texts to discuss a technique, this guide’s concrete yet user-friendly chapters are structured using the SBFC meta-model as an organizing framework, covering background information, procedure, evidence-based support, multicultural counseling considerations, challenges and solutions, and resources. Written in discipline-neutral language, this text benefits a wide variety of mental health professionals looking to implement SBFC in their work with children, such as school counselors and social workers, school psychologists, family therapists, and psychiatrists. The book is accompanied by online video resources with lectures and simulations illustrating how to implement specific SBFC interventions. A decision tree is included to guide intervention. Review What mental health initiative can effectively solve school problems that range from troubled and troubling students to disengaged learners? School-Based Family Counseling is the most likely initiative for both preventing and therapeutically resolving such problems. Its basic premise is that those struggling in school are best helped by efforts that link family and school and specifically focus on integrating school and family interventions. School-Based Family Counseling: An Interdisciplinary Practitioner's Guide is the indispensable resource for resolving problems and transforming the lives of students and their families. It should be in the hands of all mental health and school professionals. Len Sperry, MD, PhD, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Family Therapy; professor, Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program, Florida Atlantic University This is a book of considerable breadth and substance. The conceptual basis of SBFC is comprehensively set out at the start, and provides a point of common reference throughout all chapters. The specific applications explored in individual chapters extend the SBFC paradigm into the practical reality of helping professionals in a wide range of contexts. Each chapter provides information of relevant resources that can be accessed in addition to extensive references. As such, the book is directly relevant to practitioners, students and researchers. In total, for anyone working at the therapeutic interface between school and family, this book is a compendium of sound resources, inspiration and challenge. Hans Everts, PhD, Lately coordinator of counsellor education and senior lecturer, faculty of education, University of Auckland, New Zealand The editors have developed a must-read primer for mental health professionals interested in school-based family counseling. Read this book and learn from those who have taught and been at the forefront of the SBFC movement. Indispensable for all interested in integrating school and family intervention services! William Evans, PhD; professor and chair, Human Development and Family Studies program, University of Nevada, Reno Young people grow and excel during school days, and yet this period is also full of turmoil and frustrations. Having competent mental health professionals adopting a multidisciplinary approach will be absolutely crucial. This book is state-of-the-art with chapters contributed from key leaders in the field of school-based family counselling. Cecilia L.W. Chan, PhD, RSW, JP; Si Yuan chair, professor in Health and Social Work, chair, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR) This book is a very important contribution in supporting and promoting a paradigm shift in addressing the social and emotional needs of those involved in education and learning. The School-Ba