Table of Contents

Section 1: The School-to-Prison Pipeline 1. Funneling Children into the Prison Industrial Complex 2. The Prison Industrial Complex Section 2: How Adverse Practices "Fuel" the Pipeline? 3. Adverse School-level Practices 4. Unmet Needs of Youth with Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health Disorders 5. Explicit and Implicit Bias –Threats to the Fabric of Ethical Practice Section 3: Transformative Practices 6. The Biopsychosocial Approach to Behavioral Healthcare 7. The Comprehensive Behavioral Healthcare Assessment for Children and Adolescents Section 4: Prevention: A Moral and Ethical Imperative 8. The Promise of Prevention 9. The Public School – The Front Line of Prevention 10. What Should School-Based Mental Health Professionals Know? Section 5: Mapping an Agenda for the Future for All Youth 11. Mapping an Agenda for the Future of All Youth by Applying Psychology to Fundamental Problems

About the Author

Charles Bartholomew is a certified school psychologist and a licensed psychologist in the State of Georgia, USA.