Associations Between School Mental Health Team Membership and Impact on Service Provision.
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Reaves, SamanthaBohnenkamp, Jill
Mayworm, Ashley
Sullivan, Margaret
Connors, Elizabeth
Lever, Nancy
Kelly, Michael S
Bruns, Eric J
Hoover, Sharon
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2022-01-05Journal
School Mental HealthPublisher
Springer NatureType
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Schools are the most common venue in which children and youth receive mental health services. To organize delivery of mental health care to such a large number of children, use of school teams is often recommended. Yet, there is limited empirical literature about the composition of school mental health teams or teams’ relations to service provision. This study investigated team composition, including team multidisciplinarity (number of different types of professionals) and the presence of a community provider, and the relations of these two variables to service provision at Tier 1 (mental health promotion), Tier 2 (early intervention) and Tier 3 (intensive treatment) for 386 schools representing different school sizes, locations, and urbanicity. Results suggested team multidisciplinarity and the presence of a community provider were related to more frequent endorsement of service provision at schools. Practice and research implications are discussed including possible application to hiring decisions and further research with longitudinal data and information on service quality. © 2022, The Author(s)Rights/Terms
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http://hdl.handle.net/10713/17509ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s12310-021-09493-z
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