Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activityThinking Outside the Box
A visit with Jim Koller and Karen Weston, Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology
Additional Interview Clips
Founding the Center for the Advancement of Mental Health Practices in the Schools (Koller)
Several of the Center’s ongoing projects (Weston)
Online mental health degree program (Weston)
Thinking outside the box (Koller)
More on the Center (Koller)
Like teaching an old dog a new trick (Koller)
Healthy Minds, Healthy Learners, Healthy Schools (Weston)
Missouri Bright Futures (Weston)
The Suicide Project (Weston)
Training nurses to focus on mental health issues (Koller)
Seeking paradigm change (Weston)
Collaborations (Koller)
Topics:
suicide
suicide_prevention
The Center has been working with the School of Nursing and the College of Education at MU to provide mental health training for nurses, teachers, principals, and school counselors. Thanks to the collaboration with Vocational Rehabilitation, the Department of Health, the national centers on mental health, and other federal agencies, they have been able to do outreach, sharing, collaboration, and program development. “That’s the only way we’re going to be able to surmount some of these issues,” Koller remarks. “Without that collaboration, we would not be where we are today.”