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.

Acknowledgements Foreword Contributors Chapter 1 School-Based Family Counseling: The Revolutionary Paradigm Chapter 2 How to Develop a SBFC Case Conceptualization Chapter 3 Family Intervention: How to Build Collaboration between the Family and School Using Conjoint Family Counseling Chapter 4 Family Intervention: How to do Family Counseling with Individuals Chapter 5 School Intervention: How to Consult with Teachers Using a Functional Behavior Assessment Model and Process Consultation Chapter 6 School Intervention: How to Facilitate a Classroom Meeting Chapter 7 Family Prevention: How to Facilitate a Parent Education Workshop Chapter 8 Family Prevention: How to Facilitate a Parent Support Group Chapter 9 School Prevention: How to Increase Student Engagement Chapter 10 School Prevention: How to Develop an Anti-Bullying Program Chapter 11 How to Develop Community Resources Chapter 12 How to Overcome Barriers to SBFC Chapter 13 Effective Referral Processes in School Mental Health: Multicultural Considerations in a Eurocentric System Chapter 14 Case Study: A Family in Distress Chapter 15 The Case of Collaboration: A Closer Look at a University/K-12/Nonprofit Partnership

Brian A. Gerrard, PhD is chair of the Institute for School-Based Family Counseling and director for the Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling which has members in 22 countries. Michael J. Carter, PhD teaches the School-Based Family Counseling graduate students and directs the Counseling & Assessment Clinic at California State University, Los Angeles. He believes that multiculturally-focused family therapy is critical to our future. Deborah Ribera, PhD is an assistant professor of Counseling at California State University, Los Angeles, a marriage and family therapist, a school counselor, and founder of the nonprofit organization Beyond the Block.