Community mental health in rural schools: A demonstration project

✍ Scribed by Gary Solomon; John Hiesberger

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 231 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0090-4392
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6629(198010)8:4<353::aid-jcop2290080409>3.0.co;2-6

✦ Synopsis

A pilot program was initiated by a rural community mental health center in which staff went into the local junior and senior high schools to provide personal-problemoriented counseling services to students. Raults of the program suggest that students perceived their problems as serious, that they found counseling interventions helpful, that they favorably perceived referral to a mental health professional, and that students desired the availability of such services within the school environment on a regular basis. Conceptual and service-delivery issues are discusad within the context of a preliminary model for mental health-public school collaboration in the delivery of counseling services to students in rural areas. Suggations for future research are noted.

'The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the staff members of the Brunswick Mental Health Center and the Brunswick County school system. Requests for reprints and/or an extended version of this article should be sent to