Mental Health Issues in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Helping Children and Adolescents Succeed

 THIS SESSION WILL BE CONDUCTED AS A WEBINAR IN RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS.

REGISTRATION LINK:  https://catalog.pesi.com/item/mental-health-issues-classroom-practical-strategies-helping-children-adolescents-succeed-56819

Join child/adolescent behavioral expert, Jill Timmons, Ph.D., NCSP, and learn how to best manage the students at your school diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), mood disorders, anxiety and depression. You will walk away with concrete, yet practical, strategies to successfully intervene with their serious behavioral issues, such as:

• Anger and outbursts
• Cutting and self-injury
• Defiance
• Impulsivity
• Sensory issues
• Meltdowns and tantrums
• Obsessive compulsive
• Truancy
• Rigidity
• Electronic addiction

• 30 second teacher strategies to manage challenging and disruptive behaviors
• New ways to reduce the costs of out-of-district placements
• How to engage students in class, increase productivity and reduce truancy
• Behavioral assessments and strategies for the IEP team
• Side-effects of common psychotropic medications
• How skill deficits from mental health conditions create behavioral difficulties
• Characteristics of at-risk students’ mental health problems
• Strategies to gain collaboration with clinicians

Leave the day with the “magic dust” you have been looking for to expedite rapid and effective changes in these children and adolescents!

For more information or to register:  https://www.pesi.com/events/detail/78149/mental-health-issues-in-the-classroom-practical-strategies

This workshop will award 6.25 CE clock hours for professional counselors; it was not reviewed for NBCC credits.