A Scoping Review of Police Involvement in School Crisis Response for Mental Health Emergencies

The purpose of this scoping literature review was to examine research on police involvement in school mental health crisis response. The search was conducted in PsychInfo, PubMed, and ERIC and initially identified 315 articles. After applying inclusion/exclusion criteria, 47 articles remained. Detailed review and data extraction by three independent reviewers resulted in a final article count of nine. Three primary themes were identified across articles: (1) perceptions and consequences of law enforcement presence in schools; (2) the role of school-community partnerships in successful crisis response models; and (3) gaps in research and challenges of implementing and scaling existing models. Though in practice law enforcement officers are often involved in school mental health crisis response, there is limited empirical research supporting this approach. Our review did not return any randomized trials. In the absence of empirical evidence supporting the use of current models, there is a need for research on law enforcement involvement in school crisis response and, more broadly, community-partnered models of responding to student mental health needs.

Obstacles of Crises Management in Primary Schools for girls at the north of Buraidah City from the viewpoint of school principals: معوقات إدارة الأزمات المدرسية في المدارس الابتدائية للبنات شمال مدينة بريدة من وجهة نظر مديرات المدارس

The aim of this research was to identify the obstacles of crisis management in primary schools in Buraidah from the viewpoint of principals of primary schools north of the city of Buraidah، and to identify their proposals to overcome these obstacles. The researcher used the descriptive survey method، and the tool was represented in a questionnaire distributed to a sample of (44) principals، and the research concluded that the obstacles of school crisis management got a general average (1.96 out of 3) i.e. a degree (medium) and at the level of areas organizational obstacles got the rank The first with an average of (2.17 of 3)، and in the second place came the obstacles of information and communication systems with an average of (2.10) and finally the humanitarian obstacles with an average of (1.64)، all with a verbal estimate (medium)، and the study recommended the setting of a curriculum on crises and linking it to planning with building a building and cultivating a culture of responsibility and initiative And cooperation to face crises to overcome the obstacles of school crisis management and suggested the development of school management and the introduction of methods and strategies for crisis management in primary schools for girls in the north of Buraidah and the whole of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The Degree to Which the School Principals of Public Schools in the Kasbah of Salt Possess Schools’ Crisis Management Skills from the View Point of Counselors

This study aimed to investigate the degree to which the principals of public schools in the Kasbah of Salt possess the skills of school crisis management from the viewpoint of the counselors, and the study sample consisted of (75) counselors, who were randomly chosen during the second semester of the academic year 2019-2020.The descriptive approach was used where the researcher prepared a questionnaire consisting of (52) items, distributed on four domains of crisis management skills (preventive skills to avoid the occurrence of the crisis, planning skills to face the crisis, administrative skills to deal with the crisis during its occurrence and administrative skills (treatment) after the crisis ended. Its validity and reliability were verified. The study results showed that the degree of educational principals' possession of school crisis management skills was moderate. The results also showed statistically significant differences in the degree of principals’ possession of school crisis management skills attributed to gender in favor of males. The results also showed statistically significant differences in the degree of possession due to the variable of experience, and the absence of statistically significant differences attributable to the variable of academic qualification, educational stage, some recommendations were made in light of the results of the study.

Problem solved! How eduprenuers enact a school crisis as business possibilities

This article explores how a growing apparatus of edupreneurial actors offers solutions for the current ‘school crisis’ and how these commercial actors become taken for granted in the public school system. The Swedish case is interesting, as it involves a once-strong welfare state that is now associated with both the neoliberal discourse of competition and the outsourcing of policy work. Two examples – research-based education and the digitalization of education – serve to illustrate how a crisis narrative is translated into edupreneurial business ideas and how companies become established in the edupreneurial market through ‘public/private statework’. Bacchi’s notion of problematization is used to analyse processes through which the crisis has become a hegemonic truth and thus an obvious object for (business) intervention. In addition, this study shows how the commodification of school limits what becomes the ‘research base’ for schooling. The results point to the importance of how the problem is constructed and what is represented (or not) in this problematization process, for example, how critical research is left out. Another important conclusion is that the crisis narrative and policy reforms nurture the existence of these private companies.