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ERIC Number: ED650108
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 91
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 979-8-3575-8279-9
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A Needs Assessment of Intervention Services for Students with Emotional, Social, and Behavioral Challenges in an Orthodox Jewish High School
Benjamin Madsen
ProQuest LLC, Psy.D. Dissertation, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
The present study investigated the mental health needs of a Modern Orthodox Jewish High School. The researcher sought to find out what types of emotional, social, and behavioral issues students present in a Modern Orthodox High School, what types of strategies and interventions are currently being used to address these issues, and how effective teachers perceive these strategies to be. The study investigated what additional services teachers would consider to be useful to address the emotional, social and behavioral challenges of students, and what barriers to the effective delivery of mental health teachers perceive. Finally, the study investigated the differences between teachers of religious topics and teachers of secular topics as pertain to their perception of mental health challenges, perception of strategies used, and suggestions of strategies that they think should be implemented. A survey was administered via Qualtrics to all teaching staff (N = 42) via email. Respondents (n = 29) reported that the most concerning mental health challenges they perceived were anxiety, inattention/hyperactivity, family stressors and peer challenges. Teachers reported that the mental health strategies they observed the most were individual counseling/therapy and health and wellness promotion. Teachers perceived individual counseling, group therapy and parent consultation with the school psychologist/guidance staff to be the most effective interventions. Teachers reported that they perceived it would be effective to add screening for emotional/behavioral/social problems, and prevention programs for students with externalizing challenges and internalizing challenges. The main barriers reported by teachers were competing priorities taking precedence over mental health services, challenges with parent consultation, lack of staff training, difficulty identifying children with mental health needs, stigma associated with receiving mental health services. Teachers of religious topics more frequently reported perceiving higher amounts of mental health challenges, though the means were very close. This survey was conducted in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the divergence of the findings from prior research on the topic may be due to the unique mental health challenges that came about during the pandemic. The divergences may also be due to the unique nature of the Orthodox Jewish School. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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