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The School Services Sourcebook: A Guide for School-Based Professionals,Edited by Cynthia Franklin, Mary Beth Harris and Paula Allen-Meares

This comprehensive sourcebook covers every aspect of school service delivery, arming practitioners with the nuts and bolts of evidence-based practice. Each chapter has been specifically crafted by leaders in their fields with the ultimate goal of giving school-based practitioners the tools they need to deliver the best mental health and social services possible to students, families, and communities.

teaching kids Teaching Kids with Mental Health and Learning Disorders in the Regular Classroom: How to Recognize, Understand, and Help Challenged (and Challenging) Students Succeed
Myles L. Cooley, 2007.

This book describes mental health and learning disorders often observed in school children, explains how each might be exhibited in the classroom and offers expert suggestions on what to do and not do.
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When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder
: A Step-By-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers, Abigail H. Natenshon, 1999. 

Explains to parents and other adults who care about youth how to intervene when they suspect their child has an eating disorder. The book shows how to recognize, confront and conquer the disorder, presenting it as a disease that can be treated successfully.
OCD book What to Do When Your Child has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions, Pinto Wagner, Ph.D. 2002.

This book covers the essential facts about OCD, its diagnosis, causes and treatments. It also provides strategies for the challenges of OCD and offers an approach to helping children through school issues.
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How to Talk So Kids Can Learn: What Every Parent and Teacher Needs to Know, Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish, 1996.

Faber & Mazlish give parents and teachers suggestions on how to help children handle the everyday problems that interfere with learning.

Optimistic Child
The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience. Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman, 2007.

Seligman shows adults how to teach children the skills of optimism that can help them combat depression, achieve more on the playing field and at school, and improve their physical health.
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The Out of Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder. Carol Stock Kranowitz, 2005.

This book explains sensory processing disorder, how to recognize the symptoms, and how to help those affected. It includes recent research on vision and hearing deficits, motor skill problems, nutrition and picky eaters, ADHA, autism, and other related disorders.

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