Best Practice/Research-Based Prevention and Intervention Resources for School Counselors

Welcome to the site where you can access best practice/research-based prevention and intervention programs designed to meet the social/emotional/behavioral needs of all students as outlined in the Response to Intervention (RtI) process. Here, you will find information about assessment, evidence-based programs for prevention, early intervention and treatment. In addition, we have included a separate library of websites that address multiple areas of interest (specifically research and data demonstrating the effectiveness of specific programs).

Below, topics have been categorized as Assessment and Appraisal Resources; School-Wide Programs/Tier 1; Targeted Interventions/Tier 2 & 3; or Resources.

• School-wide Programs/Tier 1 are preventive and proactive practices and supports designed for all students in the general curriculum.
• Targeted Interventions/Tier 2 & 3 are supplemental services and interventions that are provided in addition to school-wide prevention programs to those students for whom data suggests additional support is warranted. At Tier 3, more intensive interventions are provided in addition to school-wide and targeted supports with the goal of providing individual students with the social/emotional/behavioral health supports that will allow them to fully benefit from core instruction.

Assessment and Appraisal Resources:

Appraisal Tools

• Appraisal of Guidelines Research & Evaluation (AGREE)
• Centre for Evidence Based Medicine's Levels of Evidence
• CONSORT Guidelines
• National Health Service's Public Health Resource Unit's Critical Appraisal Tools
• QUORUM Statement Checklist for Systematic Reviews
• STARD Initiative
• STROBE Initiative
• SUNY Medical Library Tutorials on Evaluating Studies

Assessment Tools

• Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment
• Behavior Assessment System for Children
• Children's Global Assessment Scale
• Columbia University TeenScreen Program
• Mood and Feeling Questionnaire
• Scales of Independent Behavior-Revised
• School Success Profile
• Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire
• Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales-2

Goal Attainment

• Flinders Univ. (Australia)
• (cont.) Self-Esteem Goal Attainment Scaling Tool
• Kiresuk, Smith, & Cardillo's book on Goal Attainment Scaling
• Marson & Dran's Goal Attainment Scaling

Outcomes
Center for School Counseling Outcome Research

• Report of the National Panel for Evidence-Based School Counseling...
• Outcome Research Coding Protocol and Evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step
• Does a School-Based Social Skills Program Have an Effect on Students’ Behavior and Social Skills?
• What Works Clearing House
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• U.S. Dept. of Ed. Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
• Collaborative for Academic Social, and Emotional Learning

Statistical Decisions

• Advanced Technology Services-UCLA
• Choosing the Correct Statistical Test...
• Exploratory Data Analysis
• EZAnalyze-Data Analysis for Educators
• HyperState Online Textbook
• Intuitive Biostatistics-Graphpad.com
• Matching Statistics with the Research Design - University of Texas Medical Branch
• MedCalc Statistics Menu
• Mississippi State Univ. Virtual Statistics Lab.
• Professor Gerstman's StatPrimer
• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
• Statistical Analysis
• Statistics Demonstrations with Excel

Statistical Interpretation

• Level of Significance for Pearson's r Correlation
• (cont.) Illinois State Univ.
• Testing the Significance of Pearson's r
• (cont.) University of New England (Australia)

School-wide Prevention, Tier 1 and Targeted Intervention, Tier 2 Issues and Services:

Academic Skills Enhancement:

School-Wide Prevention

• Caring School Community (Child Development Project)
• Learning to Learn
• Student Success Skills
• Success for All
• Collaborative for Academic Social, and Emotional Learning

Targeted Interventions

• Success for All

Resources

• CASEL

After School Programs

Targeted Interventions

• After School KidzLit
• After School KidzMath

Resources

• CASEL

Anger Management

Prevention

• Second Step

Targeted Interventions

• Reducing Anger in Adolescents

Anxiety

Resource

• Anxiety Disorders Assoc. of America

Attendance

Targeted Interventions

• OJJDP-Funded Attendance Programs

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)

Targeted Interventions

• Effective Interventions for Students With ADHD
• (cont.) “The School Services Sourcebook” Chapter 4. Franklin, C., Harris, M.B., & Allen-Meares, P.

Resources

• Ntl. Resource Center on ADHD...
• Attention Deficit Disorder Assoc. (ADDA)

Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

Resource

• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
• Pivotal Response Training (PRT)
• http://www.autism-society.org
• http://www.autisminfo.com
• http://nichcy.org
• http://wwwaspergers.com
• http://udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aslink.html
• http://www.autism-pdd.net/autism.htm
• http://www.autismwebsite.com/ari/index.htm
• http://www.teacch.com
• http://wwwautism.org
• http://www.cabas.com

Behavior

School-Wide Prevention

• Caring School Community (Child Dev. Project)
• PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies)
• Positive Behavior Supports
• Second Step
• Skills, Opportunities, and Recognition (SOAR)
• (cont.) OR
• Social Decision Making and Problem Solving Program

Behavioral Rubrics

Resources

• Kathy Schrock's Guide to Rubrics
• Intervention Central (Behavior Report Cards)
• Princeton Online's Positive Behavior Rubric
• Prof. John Howe's Behavior Rubric
• RubiStar 4 Teachers
• Teachnology-Online Teacher Resource

Bipolar Disorder

Currently there are no evidence-based psychosocial interventions for students with bi-polar disorder, but clinical trials of the most promising interventions are underway including:

Targeted Interventions

• “The Multi-Family Psychoeducation Group (MFPG)” Fristad and colleagues
• Child and Family Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment
• Classroom Tips for Children with Bipolar Disorder

Resources

• The Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation

Bullying

School-Wide Prevention

• “Bullying Prevention Programme”. Dan Olweus
• Lions-Quest ("Skills Series")
• Peaceful School Bus
• Peacebuilders (Violence Prevention)
• “Stop Bullying Now” Toolkits for Elementary and Middle School Students

Career Exploration

Resources

• http://www.realgame.org/
• Learn More Indiana

Character Education

School-Wide Prevention

• Caring School Community (Child Development Project)
• Community of Caring
• Lions-Quest (“Skills Series”)
• PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies)
• Positive Action (1)
• Positive Action (2)
• Social Decision Making and Problem Solving Program
• Too Good for Violence (1)
• Too Good for Violence (2)

Conduct Disorder

School-Wide Prevention

• The Incredible Years

Targeted Interventions

• "Living with Children Manual" Alexander, J.F., & Parsons, B.V.

Resources

• “Strengthening America’s Families: Exemplary Parenting and Family strategies for Delinquency Prevention”

Co-Occurring Disorders

Resources

• “Effective Strategies for Working with Students Who Have Co-Occurring Disorders”. Chapter 13

Creating a Positive School Climate

School-Wide Prevention

• Caring School Community
• Comer School Development Project
• Community of Caring
• Lions-Quest ("Skills Series")
• Positive Behavior Supports

Resources

• CASEL

Crisis Prevention – School or District-Wide

Resources

• IDOE School Safety

Critical Thinking

Resources

• Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
• Critical Thinking Community
• Quack Watch

Depression

Resources

• "Adolescent Coping with Depression Course"

Dropout Prevention

School-Wide Prevention

• Career Academies
• OJJDP-Funded Attendance Programs

Targeted Intervention

• Check and Connect
• Check and Connect

Resources

• ALAS (Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success)
• Why Try Program

Eating Disorders

Targeted Intervention

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Family and Community Partnerships

Resources

• National Network of Partnership Schools
• National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools
• UCLA School Mental Health Project

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Students

Resources

• GLESN
• GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender)
• The Trevor Project

Grief and Loss

Targeted Interventions

• Play Therapy
• Projective Play
• Teens Together Grief Support Group Curriculum: Adolescence Ed.: Gr. 7-12 (Paperback)
• by Linda Lehmann (Author), Shane R. Jimerson (Author), Ann Gaasch (Author)

Homeless Students

Resources

• IDOE McKinney-Vento Homeless
• McKinney-Vento Internet Resources

Juvenile Delinquency

School-Wide Prevention

• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Skills, Opportunities, and Recognition (SOAR)
• SOAR

Targeted Interventions

• Strengthening America's Families..."

Mentoring

Targeted Interventions

• OJJDP Model Mentoring Programs
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Maryland Mentoring Partnership
• TALKS Mentoring
• Connecticut Mentoring Partnership based in Hartford, CT.

Minority and Migrant Students

Resources

• IDOE Language Minority & Migrant Programs

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Targeted Interventions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – See the CBT Manual for Children and Adolescents with OCD

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

Targeted Interventions
The Anger Coping Program (an empirically supported group intervention for 8-12 year olds with anger and aggression problems)

• The Anger Coping Program

Resources
Effective Interventions for Youth With Oppositional Defiant Disorder: “The School Services Sourcebook” Chapter 5. Franklin, C., Harris, M.B., & Allen-Meares, P.

Parenting

Resources

• CASEL
• "Strengthening America's Families..."

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Targeted Interventions

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Trauma

Reactive Attachment Disorder

Resources

• RADKID

Response to Intervention / Integrated and Focused Systems

Resources

• RTI Power Point
• AIMS Web
• Ntl. Center on Student Progress Monitoring
• Nt. Research Center on Learning Disabilities
• Reseach Institute on Progress Monitoring

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

Resources

“Effective Interventions for Students with Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders”. Susan Stone. From “The School Services Sourcebook”. Chapter 11. Franklin, Harris, Allen-Meares

School Safety

School-Wide Prevention

• Life Skills Training
• Peacebuilders (Violence Prevention)
• Protecting You/Protecting Me
• Safe Dates (Conflict Resolution, Sexual Violence Prevention)
• Safe Dates
• Second Step Violence Prevention Curriculum

Resources

• IDOE School Safety Specialist Academy
• Blueprints for Violence Prevention: Model Programs
• Promising Programs

Self-Harming Adolescents

Targeted Interventions

“Integrative, Solution Oriented Approaches With Self-Harming Adolescents” Matthew D. Selekman. The School Services Sourcebook Chapter 27 Franklin, Harris, Allen-Meares

Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD)

Targeted Interventions

• The Coping Cat Program

Service Learning

Resources

• CASEL

Social Skills

School-Wide Prevention

• Caring School Community (Child Development Project)
• General Personal and Social Skills
• Life Skills Training
• Skills, Opportunities, and Recognition (SOAR)
• SOAR
• Social Decision Making and Problem Solving Program

Resources

Article - “Social Skills Programs Found to Yield Gains in Academic Subjects.” Debra Viadero

Substance Abuse Prevention

School-Wide Prevention

• Here's Looking at You 2000
• Life Skills Training
• Me-Me
• Project Northland
• Protecting You/Protecting Me (Gr. 1-5)
• U.S. Dept. of Ed. Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Resources

• American Cancer Society
• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CASP)
• Ntl. Registry of Effective Prevention Programs (NREPP)
• "Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the U.S..."
• Ntl. Council on Alcoholism
• Prevention Enhancement Protocols System
• Why Try Program

Suicide Prevention

School-Wide Prevention

• Columbia TeenScreen
• Lifelines
• Natural Helpers Program
• QPR
• Signs of Suicide Prevention Program
• Suicide Prevention Best Practice Registry
• Yellow Ribbon
• Youth Suicide Prevention School-based Guide: Univ. of So. Fla.

Resources
"Suicide Prevention Program Focuses on Teens" Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 3rd 2008 Edition states: Research shows that "Signs of Suicide" helps reduce the number of attempts by high school students."

• American Assoc. of Suicidology
• American Society for Suicide Prevention
• ASIST Living Works Education
• Best Practices Registry for Suicide Prevention
• Indiana Suicide Prevention Coalition
• SOS Signs of Suicide
• SPAN: Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network
• StopASuicide: Checklists on Warning Signs
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center
• QPR Institute

University Research Centers

• Center for Mental Health in Schools: UCLA
• Center for School Mental Health Analysis and Action: Univ. of Maryland
• Center of Excellence in Children's Mental Health
• Children's Mental Health Research Center
• Ntl. Center for School Counseling Outcome Research
• Ntl. Technical Assistance Ctr. for Children's Mental Health: Georgetown Univ.
• Research & Training Center for Children's Mental Health: Univ. of So. Fla.

Violence Prevention

School-Wide Prevention

• Peacebuilders (Violence Prevention)
• Safe Dates (Conflict Resolution, Sexual Violence Prevention)
• Safe Dates
• Second Step Violence Prevention Curriculum

Resources

• Child Development Project
• FAST Track (Families and Schools together
• PATHS curriculum (component of Fast Track)
• Why Try Program

Resources and Referral Services:

Advocacy Groups

• Advocates for Children in Therapy
• Alliance for Human Research Protection
• Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse

Database Resources

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Practice Parameters
• American Institutes for Research
• American Psychological Assoc. Guide to Empirically-Supported Interventions
• American Student Achievement Institute...
• Assoc. of College and Research Libraries
• Campbell Collaboration (social, behavioral & educational issues)
• CASEL
• CASEL: Safe and Sound (SEL Programs)
• Center for School Counseling Outcome Research
• Also see (1):
• Also see (2):
• Also see (3):
• Cochrane Collaboration (health care)
• Developmental Studies Center
• Doing What Works
• Education Resource Info. Center
• Ntl. Academics Press (free)
• Ntl. Center for Biotechnology Information
• Ntl. Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings
• Promising Practices Network
• Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)...
• Univ. of CA Science Based Programs List
• What Works Clearinghouse

Empirically Supported Treatments for Children & Adolescents

• California Scientific-Based Programs
• Center for School Mental Health
• Hope Tillman-Librarian, Babson College
• Library of Congress
• Ntl. Academies Press-Free Books Online
• Ntl. Ctr. for Biotechnology Info. (online journals)
• Ntl. Guideline Clearinghouse
• Ntl. Institute on Drug Abuse Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment
• Ntl. Institute of Health Consensus Statement on ADHD
• Ntl. Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MESH)
• Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs
• Promising Practices Network
• SAMHSA's Ntl. Registry of Evidence-Based Programs & Practices
• UCLA's Librarian, Esther Grassian
• USDOE's Safe, Disciplined, & Drug-Free Exemplary Programs
• U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services-Matrix of Children's Evidence-Based Interventions
• What Works Clearinghouse

Library Critiques of Web-Based Information

• Assoc. of College & Research Libraries
• Library of Congress
• Babson College Librarian, Hope Tillman)
• UCLA Librarian, Esther Grassian)

University Research Centers

• Center for Mental Health in Schools: UCLA
• Center for School Mental Health Analysis and Action: Univ. of Maryland
• Center of Excellence in Children's Mental Healthq
• Children's Mental Health Research Center
• Ntl. Center for School Counseling Outcome Research
• Ntl. Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health: Georgetown Univ.
• Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health: Univ. of So. Fla.