* The book utilizes a unique approach to school success called School-Based Family Counseling (SBFC), a growing school mental health movement that views schools as important community institutions for providing mental health services to children
* Each chapter is written by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors who are members of the Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling, an international association of scholars and practitioners committed to developing SBFC
* Written in discipline-neutral language and can be used with any of these mental health professions, including school counseling, school social work, school psychology, family therapy, and psychiatry
