Scaling School Mental Health with Single Session Interventions

The child and adolescent mental health crisis is complex, encompassing financial and geographic barriers to care, a shortage of trained providers, personal and systemic stigma, restrictions on youth autonomy, and numerous other concerns identified and discussed in-depth by previous authors (Kazdin, 2017; Radez et al., 2022). It follows that the solution to these concerns must be similarly complex, incorporating a broad array of strategies. In addition to strengthening traditional methods of mental health service delivery, new avenues for ameliorating the mental health crisis must be explored to build a comprehensive and variegated system of support (Gruber et al., 2021; Kazdin, 2019). In this chapter, we introduce one potential avenue: school-based single session interventions.