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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 the five 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.
List of contents
Part 1: Overview 1. The School-Based Family Counseling Approach to Strengthening Families and Schools in Crisis and Disaster 2. Chronic Disaster: A South African Perspective
3. A Positive Deviance Approach for Overcoming Crisis and Disaster 4. The Leadership Role of the School Principal in Times of Disaster or Crisis
Part II: School Intervention 5. Developing Systems for Crisis Intervention with School Personnel 6. How Schools Can Help Students Cope with the Stress of a Major Disaster 7. How to Lower Stress and Strengthen Student Executive Functions During Crisis and Disaster
8. Group Counseling in Schools Following a Crisis or Disaster
9. Using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Students Who Have Experienced Trauma
Part III: Family Intervention 10
. Un Respiro de Vida, A Breath of Life: Giving Wings to Farmworker Families During the COVID Crisis
11. Conjoint Family Counseling with Grief and Loss
12. Couples in Crisis: A Poststructuralist Approach 13. A Narrative Approach to Strengthening Child and Family Relationships 14. Family-based Interventions for Children in Crisis
Part IV: School Prevention 15. Big Talks for Little People: Child Mental Health Module
16. Preventing School Violence Through School Engagement 17: Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences: The Role of Buddhism and Resilience 18. Internet Intimidation: Responding to Cyberbullying of School Children via the Digital Citizenship Curriculum
19. An ACES Approach to Developing Trauma-sensitive Schools
Part V: Family Prevention 20. An Internal Family Systems Approach to Building Disaster Resilience 21. Teacher Development: Promoting Teacher-Family Engagement to Support Crisis Preparedness 22. Strengthening Families During Crisis Through Teacher-Parent Engagement
23. Collaborating with Immigrant Students, School Personnel and Families in Times of Disaster
24. Intimate Parenting to Build Family Resilience
Part VI: Community Intervention 25. Addressing the Aftermath of Violence in a School Context: An SBFC Approach
26. Community-based Psychosocial Intervention for Child Protection in Disaster 27. How to Develop a Volunteer Global Psychological First Aid Organization: The Disastershock Global Response Team
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
