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Building A Positive Culture Around Mental Health, Kevin Kusy Nov 2019

Building A Positive Culture Around Mental Health, Kevin Kusy

Staff Publications & Research

Creating a safe and open environment for students and staff to talk about mental health and wellness is a key to developing healthy, productive students. This session will discuss how to effectively develop and sustain mental health interventions within an educational setting.


Discussing Multiculturally Competent Counseling With Gifted And Talented Students, Kevin Kusy Apr 2019

Discussing Multiculturally Competent Counseling With Gifted And Talented Students, Kevin Kusy

Staff Publications & Research

IMSA strives to advocate for students of all cultural backgrounds and wants to meet or exceed multicultural counseling competencies established when working with talented students. Current competency based counseling models address multicultural concepts but do not integrate framework to include social justice advocacy. This presentation will attempt to start to bridge the gap to more inclusive-based counseling work with talented students


Who Is A Gifted Or Talented Student?, Kevin Kusy Mar 2019

Who Is A Gifted Or Talented Student?, Kevin Kusy

Staff Publications & Research

Identifying our high functioning, talented students. Discuss some of the current challenges these students face. Identify ways for counselors to provide multicultural competency when working with these students and for teachers to learn how to better encourage social/emotional development in the classroom.