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Hurting The Helpers: Mental Health And The United States’ Education System, Simone Fh Banks
Hurting The Helpers: Mental Health And The United States’ Education System, Simone Fh Banks
National Cross-Cultural Counseling and Education Conference for Research, Action, and Change
Teachers in US public schools are in the midst of a workforce crisis. Mounting responsibilities, struggling to make a liveable wage, and the impact teaching has on a person’s mental health are reasons why teachesr are leaving the profession in huge numbers. This presentation will highlight the impact the current system has on teachers’ mental health.
Together Yet Different: Youth Resilience Building Srtategies Post-Pandemic, Frank Kros
Together Yet Different: Youth Resilience Building Srtategies Post-Pandemic, Frank Kros
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
The social isolation, economic stress, resource barriers, and enduring uncertainties of the COVID-19 interventions created a “perfect storm” for youth anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. To meet these unprecedented needs, adults can step-up to this new normal by boosting their youth resilience building skills. This workshop will show you how with practical, effective and immediately applicable tools. Learn seven (7) new strategies to support youth through the grief process; effectively manage significant stress; recover from trauma and build her/his personal resilience.
New Thought On How An Understanding Of Thought Prevents Violence, Stephanie A. Fox
New Thought On How An Understanding Of Thought Prevents Violence, Stephanie A. Fox
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
The Spark Initiative’s work and research with youth at risk in schools, jails, and foster care has proven that a simple understanding of the mind has increased resilience, emotional regulation, impulse control, decision-making, problem-solving and communication skills, all critical to violence prevention.
What’S In A Name? How The Language Of Mental Health Diagnoses Affects The Ability To Heal, Elizabeth Marston, Samuel Marion
What’S In A Name? How The Language Of Mental Health Diagnoses Affects The Ability To Heal, Elizabeth Marston, Samuel Marion
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
When a person receives a mental health diagnosis, they are often started down a path of receiving help, but also of receiving stigma. This presentation will discuss how language around a diagnosis can affect a child’s sense of self as well as either help or hurt a student’s ability to manage and heal.