For a series of reasons identified by research, school-based interventions seem to be a very promising framework
for addressing students’ disabilities and disorders and/or preventing risks for later social and academic
maladjustment (Ringeisen & Hoagwood, 2002), under the condition that the strategical paradigm will be based upon
an empowering and social skill perspective in radical opposition to the “within the child pathology model”.
(Dryfoos, 1997; Elias et al., 1997; Kourkoutasw, 2007b; Weare, 2005).