Interventions & Strategies

Evaluation: References

Addressing Unique Ethical and Legal Challenges in Expanded
School Mental Health. (2003). Prodente, C.A., Sander, M.A.,
Grabill, C., Rubin, M., & Schwab, N. M.D. Weist, S.W. Evans,
& N.A. Lever (Eds.), Handbook of school mental health
programs: Advancing practice and research (pp. 363-374).
New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

Assessing the Mental Health and Academic Needs of Latino Youth.(2003). Acosta, O. M., Weist, M. D., Lopez, F. A.,
Shafer, M. E., & Pizarro, L. J. (in press). Journal of Behavior Modification.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

Assessing the Status of Research on Violence-Related
Problems Among Youth. (2001). Acosta, O.M., Albus, K.E.,
Reynolds, M.W., Spriggs, D., & Weist, M.D. Clinical Child
Psychology, 30. 152-160.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

Continuous Quality Improvement and Evaluation of 

Expanded School Mental Health Programs. (2003). Nabors, 
L.A., Lehmkuhl, H.D., & Weist,M.D. In M.D. Weist, S.W. 
Evans, & N.A. Lever (Eds.), Handbook of school mental 
health programs: advancing practice and research 
(pp. 275-284).New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/
Plenum Publishers.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

Evaluation of Expanded School Mental Health Programs. (2000).Weist, M.D., Nabors, L.A., Meyers, C.P., &
Armbruster, P. Community Mental Health Journal,
36(4), 395-411.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

Evaluation of Out of School Time
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/eval/issue21/index.html

Expanded School Mental Health Programs: Advancing
Reform and Closing the Gap between Research and
Practice. (2000). Weist, M. D., & Christodulu,
K. V. Journal of School Health, 70 (5), 195-200.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

Expanded School Mental Health Services: Assessing
Needs Related to School Level and Geography. (2000).
Weist, M. D.,Meyers, C. P., Danforth, J., McNeil, D. W., Ollendick, T. H. & Hawkins, R. Community Mental Health Journal, 36, 259 273.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

Focus Groups: A Valuable Tool for Assessing Male and
Female Adolescent Perceptions of School-Based Mental Health Services.(1999). Nabors, L.A., Weist, M.D., &
Tashman, N.A. Journal of Gender, 4(1), 39-48.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). Aligning School Accountability, Outcomes, and Evidence-Based Practices.
In Data Matters (Spring/Summer 2002, Issue #5, pp 16-18), an Evaluation Newsletter published by the National TA Center for Children's Mental Health.

H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). Impediments to
Enhancing Availability of Mental Health Services in Schools: Fragmentation, Overspecialization, Counterproductive Competition, and Marginalization. Paper commissioned by the National Association
of School Psychologists and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services (ERIC/CASS). Published by the ERIC/CASS
Clearinghouse.

Left out and left behind NCLB and the American high school
(2003) Alliance for Excellent Education, Policymakers
http://www.all4ed.org/policymakers/NCLB/index.html

Mobilizing Research to Inform a School Mental Health
Initiative: Baltimore’s School Mental Health Outcomes Group. (2003). Bruns, E.J., Walwrath, C., Glass-Siegel, M., & Weist, M.D. In M.D. Weist, S.W. Evans, & N.A. Lever (Eds.). Handbook
of school mental health programs: Advancing practice and
research (pp. 61-72). New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

Overcoming the Challenges of Funding School Mental Health Programs. (2003). Evans, S., Glass-Siegel, M., Frank, A., Van
Treuren, R., Lever, N., & Weist, M.D. In M.D. Weist, S. Evans,
& N.A. Lever (Eds.), School mental health handbook:
Advancing practice and research (pp.73-86). New York, NY:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

Public school data in reports, data files, and web tools
http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch

Use of Focus Groups as a Tool for Evaluating Programs for
Children and Families. (2001). Nabors, L. A., Ramos, V., & Weist,M. D. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 12 (3), 243-256.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

What do schools really think about prevention research?
http://www.drugabuse.gov/whatsnew/meetings/
schoolresearch.html

What proportion of failure to complete secondary school
in the U.S. population is attributable to adolescent
psychiatric disorder? (2003) A. Vander Stoep, et al,
Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research,
30(1) 119-124.
The abstract can be found at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=search
&db=PubMed&term=J+Behav+Health+Serv+Res%5Bta%5D

Why Did They Graduate? A Pilot Study Considering 
Resilience among Inner-City Youth. (2001). Weist, M. D., 
Tashman, N. A., Acosta, O. M.,Schaeffer, C. M., & Stokbach, 
A. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 3 (2), 
8-23.
Summary can be found at:
http://csmha.umaryland.edu/csmha2001/artsum.php3

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Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, NJ. 

Kibel, B. M. (1999). Success stories as hard data: An 
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Pawson, R. & Tilley, N. (1997). Realistic evaluation. 

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Schalock, R. L. (2001). Outcome-based evaluation (2nd ed.).

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