Evidence Based School Psychiatry

The challenges of providing mental health services to school children are numerous and diverse, ranging from staffing shortages to insufficient funding to family resistance to administrative indifference. Yet with the U.S. Surgeon General estimating that approximately 20% of young people display signs of psychological problems, the need for such services – particularly for interventions that not only address mental health issues but also reinforce protective factors – is considerable.

by James C. Raines (Editor)
Though schools have become the default mental health providers for children and adolescents, they are poorly equipped to meet the mental health needs of their students