Impact of a School-Based, Multi-Tiered Emotional and Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention on School Safety and Discipline
| Autor: | Rachel Siegal, Jill H. Bohnenkamp, Mills Smith-Millman, Tiffany Beason, Sharon Hoover, Cindy M. Schaeffer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_treatment
education Psychological intervention Poison control Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences Comprehensive school Intervention (counseling) medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Students School Health Services Medical education 030505 public health Schools 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Bullying Mental health United States Health psychology Crisis Intervention 0305 other medical science Psychology Crisis intervention 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research. 22(4) |
| ISSN: | 1573-6695 |
| Popis: | Schools across the United States are struggling with how to formulate comprehensive and effective programs to address the mental health needs of students and to promote school safety. This study, funded as part of the National Institute of Justice Comprehensive School Safety Initiative, employed a randomized controlled study design to evaluate the impact of a multi-component package of crisis prevention and response interventions on school safety and discipline outcomes, including suspensions, office discipline referrals, bullying reports, juvenile justice referrals, threat assessments, and follow-up procedures. Forty schools participated, all in a culturally diverse Mid-Atlantic, US school system spanning urban, suburban, and rural areas. The Emotional and Behavioral Health-Crisis Response and Prevention (EBH-CRP) intervention is a comprehensive training, organizational, and support protocol for school and community stakeholders aimed at increasing competence in preventing and responding to student EBH crises using multiple evidence-informed strategies that address emotional and behavioral health concerns across the continuum of supports. Results indicate that the EBH-CRP intervention had a significant positive effect on suspensions, office discipline referrals, and juvenile justice referrals for secondary schools. In addition, the intervention had positive effects on the number of bullying reports overall, with a particularly strong impact on primary schools. The intervention also had positive effects in maintaining more use of threat assessment and follow-up procedures. Although the intervention had a significant positive effect on secondary school-level suspensions, there was no impact on racial/ethnic disproportionality rates for this outcome. Implications for school safety prevention are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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