ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author provides her perspective on four questions as a foundation for the skills: Should mental health services be provided in schools? For what purpose should school-based mental health (SMH) services be provided? To whom and how should SMH services be provided? What should SMH services include?. The author service delivery was focused almost solely on those youth with the most severe problems. Her delivery of SMH services as an intern involved primarily assessment and individual or small-group therapy. She teaches her students to complete a formal case conceptualization followed by a treatment plan based on the case conceptualization. The chapter concludes by contrasting the author's practice as a school psychology intern in the early 1990s with the way she trains her students to deliver SMH services today to demonstrate the marked changes that have occurred in the conceptualization and delivery of SMH services in the past 25 years.
