CHAPTER ONE Intersection of School Safety, Mental Health and Wellness , and Family and Community Issues Howard S. Adelman, Linda Taylor, Kevin P. Dwyer, and Matthew J. Mayer This text opens with an overview of the intersection of school safety, mental health and wellness, family and community factors, and related current issues. We use a multi-contextual lens, leveraging several conceptual approaches, including but not limited to public health, behaviorist, social- ecological, developmental, family systems, and life-course frameworks. We begin by asking: How do public perceptions and media-driven accounts of school violence facilitate or impede our understanding of school safety? What are key matters to consider? What solution paths should be considered? We highlight multiple perspectives and approaches. We identify limitations and related problems with historically piecemeal and fragmented approaches to human services delivery and underscore how school- and community-based activities can be woven together in ways that minimize unnecessary duplication of efforts, lack of coordination, and counterproduc- tive competition for scarce resources. In doing so, we stress the value of
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