Understanding The 10 Most Common Psychological Disorders Psychological disorders carry a severe stigma but they're more common than people think. Learn about the most common of the disorders and help break the stigma.
We know that the COVID-19 pandemic has made conducting studies and caring for the patients very difficult. To respond to the needs of the patients and research protocols and comply with the new guidelines on social distancing, prospective monitoring of suicide risk with the Columbia Suicide Severity Scale (C-SSRS) may proceed using alternative methods. The … Continued
The Trauma Informed PBIS Program is an online learning course that focusses on supporting students. The course is online can be completed at your own pace.
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Check out their free tool kit. They have some nice strategies.
Video not approved for oakland.k12.mi.us. Approve Episode 7: Trauma and Its Impact - Supportive Strategies Series
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This is the latest installment of the Supportive Strategies series from @JemMuldoon. It breaks down how the brain reacts to trauma. A great summary of what happens and how to support students.
Disasters have a way of making everyone feel tense and it is often hard to calm oneself. Disastershock: How to Cope with the Emotional Stress of a Major Disaster is a free book that may be helpful in lowering your stress and the stress experienced by your children and other family members. Disastershock contains 24 different practical stress-reduction exercises for parents, adults, and children. It differs from many other disaster coping materials in that the exercises are described in a clear, step by step fashion that makes implementing them easy. The majority of the exercises are based on extensive research demonstrating their effectiveness in reducing strong stress.
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This is a free resource good for families and clinicians. Very practical.
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Great set of webinars/videos on trauma and COVID-19. Check out the Office Hours. First parts have teaching.
Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.
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This looks like a pretty good list of considerations when deciding how to reach out to students and families.
Tricks To Deal With ADHD Naturally Around 5% of the US population lives with ADHD, but many find themselves hesitant to take meds. Learn about some easy ways to handle your ADHD without pills.
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What do you think of this infographic? How might you use it with students or parents?
These are some of my thoughts on life, human development, psychotherapy, traumatic stress, etc. I put them out into the universe with the intention o
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Check out Jacob Ham's great and relatable videos on Attachment and/or Trauma. Great to use in inservices or to help others understand about the need for safety.
The Columbia Protocol for Your Setting The Columbia Lighthouse Project provides versions of the Columbia Protocol, also known as the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), for use in community and healthcare settings. These are places where individuals and teams have the access and opportunity to systematically assess risk and save lives. Examples include: First response agencies, … Continued
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This resource was mentioned on the #OakSSWlistserve in response to a member inquiring about suicide protocols. This one is for schools. You might need to change search fields.
I found this article by Micere Keels pretty interesting. Since school is where we spend more time, it should be transformed into a safe place. Institutions need to know and take into account the background of their students because not all of them have had the life they expect. In this modern era, violence has increased dramatically, which means that as teachers (and members of an institution) we need to be prepared to help our students to move on and leave aside those terrible episodes that have changed their lives. But something that is relevant is that schools cannot pretend to “get back to normal” because as the text says “what does normal mean when you grow up in a constant state of fear?”. Experiencing a trauma affects more than just their personal lives, it impacts their brain and cognitive capacities; therefore, they will tend to collapse and have emotional outbursts, which will disturb their academic process, too. I found the Acting Out Cycle framework (“… for understanding and responding to challenging student behaviors through phrases like calm, trigger, agitation, acceleration, peak acting out, de-escalation, and recovery) really accurate, we cannot prevent the detonation of students’ emotions, but our job is keeping them safe, protecting them, and helping them to calm down and breath; however, without leaving aside the rest of the class. We have to help the agitated student and when he/she is finally calmed, we MUST check if the rest of the class feels peaceful and safe. All students matter and are equally valuable and important. This article led me to think that 21st-century teachers must have empathy and must be prepared to face more than kids not doing their homework. So, are we really prepared to face these challenges regarding emotional intelligence in the Colombian educational system?
You can rewire your brain to be less anxious through a simple- but not easy process. Understanding the Anxiety Cycle, and how avoidance causes anxiety to spiral out of control, unlocks the key to learning how to tone down anxiety and rewire those neural pathways to feel safe and secure. In this video, I teach three essential things you need to understand about anxiety, three steps to facing and overcoming anxiety, and how the brain can actually change (rewire) it's structure, function, and chemistry when you change how you think and act. Rewiring the Anxious Brain Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb-clvcX7fI
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From time to time, researchers, policy makers, philanthropy and practitioners all join together in a coordinated response to address the most pressing issues facing America’s youth. I’ve been…
Considerations for a Trauma-Informed Response Oakland Schools July 2020 The COVID-19 Pandemic has disrupted the safety and belonging of every individual within a school community. As schools reopen, it is imperative that they adopt a trauma-informed approach, prioritizing th
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This link is to a set of three documents that we have created on a Trauma Informed Response to COVID-19. This document is targeted towards leaders. The other two are targeted more for School-Wide and Classroom Strategies. Please feel free to share. The one best opens as a Google Doc.
Purpose Statement: To provide guidance for districts to consider how to evaluate, measure, and assess well-being within their school communities. Information in this guidance document may also be helpful as districts complete their comprehensive needs assessments and continuous improvemen
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This is a resource document that may assist you in your thinking about student, family and staff well-being.
During this time of uncertainty and potentially traumatic consequence, Starr Commonwealth is committed to supporting teachers and other caring adults in whatever way we can. To best assist educators poised to provide the nurturing foundation our children need, we would like to offer our online course Trauma-Informed Resilient Schools free of charge to anyone interested …
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This blog includes some Trauma Informed Considerations for school closures. Plus they are offering a basic Trauma Course for free.
School Mental Health: A Multidisciplinary Research and Practice Journal is a forum for the latest research related to prevention, treatment, and assessment practices that are associated with the pre-K to 12th-grade education system and focuses on children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders. The journal welcomes empirical studies, quantitative and qualitative research, and systematic and scoping review articles from authors representing the many disciplines that are involved in school mental health, including child and school psychology, education, pediatrics, child and adolescent psychiatry, developmental psychology, school counseling, social work and nursing. Coverage in School Mental Health includes: innovative school-based treatment practices; training procedures; educational techniques for children with emotional and behavioral disorders; racial, ethnic, and cultural issues; and the role of families in school mental health.
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School Mental Health is offering free access for a short time. Check out their articles.
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