HEALTH-CARE REFORM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTICE IN SCHOOLS

National policy calls for the placement of comprehensive, customer-ori ented, and accessible health and social services programs for America' s children and youth. Schools have been targeted as the ideal location for such services. Numerous models of school-based and school-linked programs have been initiated. The role of psychology in these emerging models and programs is highly variable; however, it is an essential s ervice that increasingly is being recognized as necessary in order for schools to address complex and diverse student and staff health needs . In this article, models for the delivery of school health services a re profiled. Implications for practitioners who currently work in scho ols and for psychologists who are not currently working in schools but who are interested in maximizing psychology's contribution to school health services are offered.