What We Do:
School Mental Health Online is a distance based service that allows participants to interact directly with our presenters through texting or emailing, as well as observation of a small group of school clinicians who are live with the presenter and involved in discussion. This program provides a cost and time effective means of gaining exceptional clinical support and training (CEU credits) for school based clinicians. (please see how to join for more information).
Each consultation session will begin with a 10-15 minute lecture on an aspect of school based clinical practice followed by discussion.
On the day following the presentation each participant will receive an email with a set of notes covering the presentation from the preceding day,
The principle discussion within the consultation will occur between Dr. Stewart and four live participants; however other participants may submit questions or observations through text or email.
Consultations are held weekly during the school year on Thursday mornings at 10AM EST, but may also be viewed at any time over the next seven days by accessing an archived file.
Topics for presentation and discussion include:
Each consultation session will begin with a 10-15 minute lecture on an aspect of school based clinical practice followed by discussion.
On the day following the presentation each participant will receive an email with a set of notes covering the presentation from the preceding day,
The principle discussion within the consultation will occur between Dr. Stewart and four live participants; however other participants may submit questions or observations through text or email.
Consultations are held weekly during the school year on Thursday mornings at 10AM EST, but may also be viewed at any time over the next seven days by accessing an archived file.
Topics for presentation and discussion include:
- How to effectively observe and assess a classroom's fit for a particular students needs
- How to provide useful, positive feedback to teachers on more effective student management
- How to create classroom environments which are supportive to students with a wide range of developmental and psychiatric disorders (IE, ADHD. ASD/PDD. PTSD,GAD)
- Use and misuse of punishment and contingency programs in the school setting
- When and how to address the use of medication with parents
- .How to stay true your clinical insights and obligations when they are in conflict with the institutions perspective
- Management of school refusal and truancy
- Work with resistant and unavailable parents
- Using Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene) with behaviorally reactive students
- Developing and implementing contingency based behavior plans
- How to support students who struggle with transitions
- Effective collaboration with outside clinical providers (therapist, evaluating psychologist, psychiatrist).
- Understanding and utilizing information offered within psychological reports
- Management of students who refuse clinical support (but desperately need it)
- How to support teachers in developing appropriate classroom structure for poorly organized students
- Understanding Special Education Law and its implications for school based clinicians
- Managing Enuresis and/or Encopresis in the school setting
- Managing students who run away from school
- Helping students understand and accept learning disabilities
- Managing teachers who are overly putative with students
- How to help teachers develop greater empathy and understanding for struggling students
- Understanding and managing students with attachment issues
- Recognizing and responding to students with narcissistic defenses
- Basic understanding of pediatric psychopharmacology
- Seeking appropriate and useful evaluations
- Bringing about change in the school culture with respect to attitudes and management of behaviorally challenged students
- Assessment of risk for harm to self or others
- Management of students with patterns or threats of self-injury
- Managing the selectively mute student in the school setting
- Etc.