Creating Alternatives to Depression in Our Schools Assessment, Intervention, Prevention

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This is virtually a handbook for teachers and counselors, special educators, and mental health practitioners in school settings. The goal of this book is to help these experts best deal with children who exhibit overt signs of depression. Rather than avoiding these youngsters, or downloading them to psychiatrists, the approach here is to attack the problem directly, and early, not by treating the children as though they were ill, but instead via a "social learning framework" explicitly acknowledging the most important educational as well as emotional factors involved. All elements of the book are based on many years of hands-on experience in dealing with this problem directly at the local school level.