Practical Emotional and Behavioral Strategies for Youth with Mental Health Concerns
Summary
Coercive interactions contribute to social, emotional, and health challenges across the lifespan; whereas sustained positive interactions contribute to the building of youth and adult emotional and behavioral competence. The purpose of this presentation is to build your capacity to integrate and infuse practical trauma-sensitive emotional and behavioral strategies into your classroom. You will come away with doable and simple strategies to establish the positive classroom culture you envision and to keep it going all year. Strategies for building youth emotional and behavioral competencies while maintaining an engaging classroom learning environment will be demonstrated. Techniques for ending power struggles and responding effectively to disruptive behavior will be modeled.
Is disruptive, disrespectful, or off-task behavior detracting from engagement in your classroom? You are not alone. Teachers cite this as their greatest challenge and are often shocked by the variety and intensity of behavioral issues they face. Sustaining emotional and behavioral strategies in your classroom will lead to a healthier, safer, and more positive classroom environment. In addition, students with behavioral difficulties will experience improved emotional and behavioral regulation, less depressive symptoms, less externalizing problems, and greater engagement. Moreover, youth voice, leadership, and mindfulness will grow. Teachers implementing trauma-sensitive practices report less stress, better health, and significantly more time to teach each day, not to mention much fewer power struggles. In this session, you will get an engaging, user-friendly approach for implementing and sustaining practical emotional and behavioral strategies.
In this context, the two primary goals of this presentation are: 1) To learn how to build youth emotional and behavioral competencies of youth with mental health concerns; and 2) to enhance your own wellness while ending the use of power struggles.
At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will be able to:
1) Build youth emotional and behavioral competence through sustained positive interactions
2) Boost educator wellness
3) End the use of power struggles and reduce teacher burnout, stress, and exhaustion
4) Boost youth engagement, voice, and leadership
Practical Emotional and Behavioral Strategies for Youth with Mental Health Concerns
Coercive interactions contribute to social, emotional, and health challenges across the lifespan; whereas sustained positive interactions contribute to the building of youth and adult emotional and behavioral competence. The purpose of this presentation is to build your capacity to integrate and infuse practical trauma-sensitive emotional and behavioral strategies into your classroom. You will come away with doable and simple strategies to establish the positive classroom culture you envision and to keep it going all year. Strategies for building youth emotional and behavioral competencies while maintaining an engaging classroom learning environment will be demonstrated. Techniques for ending power struggles and responding effectively to disruptive behavior will be modeled.
Is disruptive, disrespectful, or off-task behavior detracting from engagement in your classroom? You are not alone. Teachers cite this as their greatest challenge and are often shocked by the variety and intensity of behavioral issues they face. Sustaining emotional and behavioral strategies in your classroom will lead to a healthier, safer, and more positive classroom environment. In addition, students with behavioral difficulties will experience improved emotional and behavioral regulation, less depressive symptoms, less externalizing problems, and greater engagement. Moreover, youth voice, leadership, and mindfulness will grow. Teachers implementing trauma-sensitive practices report less stress, better health, and significantly more time to teach each day, not to mention much fewer power struggles. In this session, you will get an engaging, user-friendly approach for implementing and sustaining practical emotional and behavioral strategies.
In this context, the two primary goals of this presentation are: 1) To learn how to build youth emotional and behavioral competencies of youth with mental health concerns; and 2) to enhance your own wellness while ending the use of power struggles.
At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will be able to:
1) Build youth emotional and behavioral competence through sustained positive interactions
2) Boost educator wellness
3) End the use of power struggles and reduce teacher burnout, stress, and exhaustion
4) Boost youth engagement, voice, and leadership
