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Schools turn to private therapists for troubled students

Private therapists enlisted to help troubled students

By Patricia Wen

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 19, 2012

School officials in Boston and other cities are increasingly importing private clinicians, paid for by health insurance, to deliver much-needed mental health services to behaviorally troubled students. This arrangement helps cash-strapped districts avoid the expense of hiring more counseling staff while reducing the profound gap nationwide between the number of children who need psychological or emotional help - and those who actually get it.

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