School-Based Family Counseling for Crisis and Disaster Global Perspectives

School-Based Family Counseling for Crisis and Disaster is a practical handbook with a school-based family counseling and interdisciplinary mental health practitioner focus that can be used to mitigate crises and disasters that affect school children. Anchored in the school-based family counseling (SBFC) tradition of integrating family and school mental health interventions, this book introduces interventions according to thefive core SBFC metamodel areas: school intervention, school prevention, family intervention, family prevention, and community intervention. The book has an explicit "how to" approach and covers prevention strategies that build student, school, and family resilience for handling stress and interventions that can be provided during and immediately after a disaster or crisis has occurred. The chapter authors of this edited volume are all experienced professors and/or practitioners in counseling, psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, teaching, and educational administration. All mental health professionals, especially school-based professionals, will find this book an indispensable resource for crisis planning and developing a trauma-sensitive school.

Part 1: Overview 1. The School-Based Family Counseling Approach to Strengthening Families and Schools in Crisis and Disaster by Brian A. Gerrard, Emily J. Hernandez, and Sibnath Deb 2. Chronic Disaster: A South African Perspective by Nyna Amin 3. A Positive Deviance Approach for Overcoming Crisis and Disaster by Masamine Jimba, Maya Sophia Fujimura, and Akira Shibanuma 4. The Leadership Role of the School Principal in Times of Disaster or Crisis by Judith E. Giampaoli Part II: School Intervention 5. Developing Systems for Crisis Intervention with School Personnel by Emily J. Hernandez, Elina Saeki, and Kezia Gopaul-Knights 6. How Schools Can Help Students Cope with the Stress of a Major Disaster by Robyne Le Brocqueand Nikki Triggell 7. How to Lower Stress and Strengthen Student Executive Functions During Crisis and Disaster by Celina Korzenowski 8. Group Counseling in Schools Following a Crisis or Disaster by Reshelle Marino and Wendy D. Rock 9. Using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Students Who Have Experienced Trauma by Carol E. Buchholz Holland Part III: Family Intervention 10. Un Respiro de Vida, A Breath of Life: Giving Wings to Farmworker Families During the COVID Crisis by Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga and Juan Carlos Ruiz Malagon 11. Conjoint Family Counseling with Grief and Loss by Michael J. Carter and Emily J. Hernandez 12. Couples in Crisis: A Poststructuralist Approach by Jeff Chang 13. A Narrative Approach to Strengthening Child and Family Relationships by Helen Nelson 14. Family-based Interventions for Children in Crisis by Anjali Gireesan and Sibnath Deb Part IV: School Prevention 15. Big Talks for Little People: Child Mental Health Module by Phillip T. Slee 16. Preventing School Violence Through School Engagement by Emily J. Hernandez and Alia R. Elasmar 17. Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences: The Role of Buddhism and Resilience by Nidup Dorji and Sibnath Deb 18. Internet Intimidation: Responding to Cyberbullying of School Children via the Digital Citizenship Curriculum by Bishakha Majumdar 19. An ACES Approach to Developing Trauma-sensitive Schools by Toni Nemia Part V: Family Prevention 20. An Internal Family Systems Approach to Building Disaster Resilience by Ralph S. Cohen 21. Teacher Development: Promoting Teacher-Family Engagement to Support Crisis Preparedness by Karen Buchananand Thomas D.Buchanan 22. Strengthening Families During Crisis Through Teacher-Parent Engagement by Nurit Kaplan Toren and Jaffa Weiss 23. Collaborating with Immigrant Students, School Personnel and Families in Times of Disaster by Sudia Paloma McCaleb 24. Intimate Parenting to Build Family Resilience by Zipora Schectman Part VI: Community Intervention 25. Addressing the Aftermath of Violence in a School Context: An SBFC Approach by Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer 26. Community-based Psychosocial Intervention for Child Protection in Disaster by Shayana Deb, Sibnath Deb, andAnjali Gireesan 27. How to Develop a Volunteer Global Psychological First Aid Organization: The Disastershock Global Response Team by Disastershock Global Response Team

Brian A. Gerrard, PhD, is a Chief Academic Officer of the Western Institute for Social Research, Berkeley, California, and the Chair of the Institute for School-Based Family Counseling. Emily J. Hernandez, EdD, LMFT, is an Associate Professor and the Program Coordinator of the School-Based Family Counseling Program at California State University, Los Angeles. Prof. Sibnath Deb, PhD, DSc, is the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Government of India. Currently, he is also Adjunct Professor of the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia.