School-based Health Care

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Voluntary After-School Program Can Reduce Alcohol Use Among Middle School Children — Feb 8, 2012

If prevention researchers build programs with developmentally relevant content, and provide this content in an engaging, confidential, and non-judgmental way, it can help middle school-aged children avoid alcohol.

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Increasing the Availability and Consumption of Drinking Water in Middle Schools: A Pilot Study — Apr 30, 2011

The authors assessed the acceptability, feasibility, and outcomes of a school-based intervention to improve drinking water consumption among adolescents.

RESEARCH BRIEF

Helping Children Cope with Violence and Trauma: A School-Based Program That Works — Dec 31, 2010

The Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) reduces symptoms of post-traumatic stress and depression in students exposed to violence. Free web-based training to deliver CBITS is available for mental health professionals.

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School Personnel Perspectives on Their School's Implementation of a School-Based Suicide Prevention Program — Dec 31, 2009

This study of a district-wide suicide prevention program found that schools whose implementation focused on at-risk students had better results.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Perceptions About Availability and Adequacy of Drinking Water in a Large California School District — Dec 31, 2009

This study of perceptions of drinking water in a California school district found that school staff and public health officials have a range of concerns about water quality and availability; as some schools move to replace sugary drinks in schools and develop policies to promote water consumption, they should explore ways of addressing these concerns.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Evidence-Based Mental Health Programs in Schools: Barriers and Facilitators of Successful Implementation — Dec 31, 2009

Schools with greater support from administrative leadership and clinician networks are more successful in implementing evidence-based mental health programs to help students deal with the impact of traumatic events.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Improving Disaster Mental Health Care in Schools: a Community-Partnered Approach — Nov 30, 2009

School-based mental health counselors and administrators need greater organizational structure that supports school counselors and provides system-level support for services after a disaster.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Support for Students Exposed to Trauma: A Pilot Study — Dec 31, 2008

This study describes preliminary data from a pilot study of a new program, Support for Students Exposed to Trauma, adapted from the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools program.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Recanting of Life-Time Inhalant Use: How Big a Problem and What to Make of It — Dec 31, 2008

To establish the prevalence of recanting of life-time inhalant use, the authors identify correlates of recanting to gain insight to its causes and develop a method for distinguishing recanters who truly are versus are not life-time users of inhalants.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Violence Exposure and PTSD: The Role of English Language Fluency in Latino Youth — Dec 31, 2008

The authors explored the level of violence exposure and trauma symptoms in Latino youth and the relationship of these factors with English language fluency.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

School Site Visits for Community-Based Participatory Research on Healthy Eating — Dec 31, 2008

Site visits offer a useful means to evaluate the implementation of school district obesity-related policies and develop interventions to translate school food policies into practice.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

School-based Treatment for Children and Adolescents — Dec 31, 2007

This chapter briefly highlights the context for treating child traumatic stress in school settings, reviews the literature supporting treatment approaches in schools, offers a description of techniques used, and identifies empirical support for the reviewed school-based treatment or intervention programs for child traumatic stress.

NEWS RELEASE

RAND Toolkit Identifies Programs for Long-Term Recovery Among Children Exposed to Significant Traumatic Events — Oct 24, 2006

October 24, 2006 News Release: RAND Toolkit Identifies Programs for Long-Term Recovery Among Children Exposed to Significant Traumatic Events.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

PIE à La Mode: Mainstreaming Evaluation and Accountability in Each Program in Every County of a Statewide School Readiness Initiative — Aug 31, 2003

This chapter describes a program accountability system developed to support evaluation of all school programs in each county across South Carolina

REPORT

CBITS: Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools — Dec 31, 2002

School counselors, psychologists, and social workers now have access to an evidence-based and easy-to-use resource for helping students who exhibit symptoms of trauma. Developed in collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District Mental Hea...

JOURNAL ARTICLE

A School-Based Mental Health Program for Traumatized Latino Immigrant Children — Dec 31, 2002

To pilot-test a school mental health program for Latino immigrant students who have been exposed to community violence.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases During Preparticipation Sports Examination of High School Adolescents — Dec 31, 2002

Sports physicals offered a unique opportunity to screen and treat adolescents for STDs and to provide STD-prevention counseling.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Theoretical Basis and Program Design of a School-Based Mental Health Intervention for Traumatized Immigrant Children: A Collaborate Research Partnership — Dec 31, 2001

This article describes a collaborative research model for school-based mental health services that targets children who are recent immigrants with violence-related mental health symptoms.

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Anita Chandra

Manager, Behavioral and Social Sciences Group; Behavioral Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Dr.P.H. in population and family health sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; M.P.H. in maternal and child health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health; B.A. in child development, Tufts University

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Courtney Ann Kase

Research Assistant
M.P.H. in public health, University of Pittsburgh

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Anita Chandra is a behavioral scientist and manager of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Group at the RAND Corporation, as well as a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her background is in public health, child and adolescent health, and community-based participatory research and…

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Courtney Ann Kase is a research assistant at RAND Corporation whose projects include studies on summer learning programs, communities of practice, and school mental health programs. Prior to joining RAND, she worked as a research assistant at the Learning Research and Development Center at the…

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