1.4. The Mental Health Support Team (MHST)
A MHST is an indicative and selective measure to prevent dropouts. It represents tiers 2 and 3 of prevention, whereby a small group of students receives interventions (tier 2), and intensive intervention efforts are made for at-risk students (tier 3) [A MHST is organized as a multidisciplinary and co-located team to strengthen the prevention work of student services. These teams have had a slightly different composition, but the school health nurse, school follow-up adviser, and social counselor have central functions within these teams. In addition, pedagogical psychological services, labor market counselors in school, and the social educator have been a part of teams at some schools. Student services have been provided with resources to cover a 50% position at each project school to act as coordinator for the team. The intention of this project was for the teams to sit together and have an open-door policy to students, as well as work on school attendance, facilitate transition, and for a nurse to conduct individual student assessments using the Kidscreen tool [