Preventing the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Preventing the School-to-Prison Pipeline is the first book written to provide school psychologists and other K-12 mental health professionals with knowledge and strategies intended to help them disrupt the criminalization of historically oppressed learners in today's classrooms.

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

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