SY008: Centering Equity in Universal School Mental Health Screening Systems

Wednesday, February 14, 2024
2:30 PM–3:50 PM CST

  • PMD: 1,8
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Advanced

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. describe and apply principles and practices that underlie an equity-explicit approach to universal mental health screening.
  2. summarize extant research related to screening measures' cross-cultural validity and use with racially, ethnically, and linguistically minoritized student populations.
  3. explain the practical implications of a universal screening measure's diagnostic accuracy in predicting risk across a racially and ethnically diverse group of students.

Description

This symposium will feature three presentations on equity-centered universal mental health screening, describing (a) a conceptual model, (b) a systematic review, and (c) an exemplar empirical study.

Presenter(s)

Brittany Zakszeski, University of Delaware
Katie Eklund, PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephanie A. Moore, University of California, Riverside
Alexandra J. Barber, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen P. Kilgus, PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Anna C. Long, Louisiana State University
Danbi Choe, Louisiana State University
Ashley M. Mayworm, Loyola University Chicago
Heather E. Ormiston, PhD, Indiana University Bloomington
Kezia K. Gopaul-Knights, Cal State LA

Contributor(s)

Samantha Coyle, Paul C. Jones, Kelly Edyburn, Tara C. Raines, Faith Miller, Erin Dowdy, Bri'Anna Collins, Jennifer M. Cooper, PhD, Kortni Dubose, Sara A. Whitcomb

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