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Digital Seminar

Behavior Management Skills for Classroom Success: Strategies for Mental Health Issues and Challenging Behaviors in the Schools


Speaker:
Scott D. Walls, MA, LIPC, CCMHC
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Feb 14, 2017
Product Code:
POS063240_M1
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD


Description

  • Powerful, positive interventions for your most challenging students
  • Proven strategies for students with mental health conditions including ODD, ADHD, anxiety, depression and mood disorders
  • Specific intervention strategies for problem behavior in the classroom
  • Unique and critical strategies for students that have experienced trauma

It’s guaranteed… this seminar will provide you with solutions to your students’ most challenging behaviors. You will leave with immediate tools for emotional regulation, successful strategies for out-of-control behaviors and long-term techniques to help these kids succeed both at school and at home. Let expert Scott Walls guide you through successful, clear evidence-based strategies and techniques for the most frustrating student behaviors including:

  • Non-compliance
  • Impulsive behavior
  • Truancy
  • Self-harm/suicide
  • Threats of harm to others
  • Highly disruptive behaviors
  • Bullying
  • Mental health disorders: ODD,
  • ADHD, anxiety & depression
  • Aggressive behaviors

Scott Walls has worked with the most challenging kids in both school and clinical settings and is eager to share his knowledge and expertise with you! You will leave this seminar with tools to use tomorrow to turn your most challenging kids around and create a classroom climate that encourages school success!

OUTLINE

Mental Health and Behavioral Issues in the Classroom

  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  • ADHD
  • Anxiety and depression
  • Self-harm/suicide
  • Bullying
  • Aggressive behaviors
  • Non compliance

Assessments: For Cause, Motivation and Reinforcement

  • Functional Behavioral Assessment forms including:
    • Functional assessment/behavioral change plan
    • Individual student safety plan
    • Intervention plan
    • Parent, student and teacher interview forms
    • Intake forms

Setting the stage for success

  • The 3 tiered approach
  • The types of change
  • Define the goal
  • Define success
  • Understand motivation
  • Address difficult adults

Safety Plans and Protective Techniques

  • Safe room set up
  • Physical intervention - when and why
  • Use of environment - for safety

Proactive Strategies

  • Behavioral plans
  • Motivational incentives
  • Incorporating the functions of the behavior

Reactive Strategies for:

  • Aggression
  • Escape behaviors
  • Noncompliance and following directions
  • Refusal to do school work

Targeted Techniques for:

  • Calming students
  • Environmental reaction plans

Crisis Interventions for:

  • Rage
  • Physical aggression
  • Self-harm/suicide
  • Harm to others
  • Specific case studies

Problem Solving AFTER a Behavioral Crisis

  • Staff training
  • Through conversation
  • Using a premade template

OBJECTIVES

  1. Identify common behavioral episodes that challenge educators, administrators, professionals and parents.
  2. Discuss clinical mental health disorders such as ODD, ADHD, anxiety and depression and their impact on student behavior in the classroom.
  3. Discuss how to implement educational strategies for enhancing behavioral skills in in the classroom.
  4. Demonstrate conversational/verbal skills such as: how to praise, corrective measures and matching reaction to the behavior.
  5. List components of behavioral escalation and strategies for each stage.
  6. Develop and implement a safety plan and/ or protective plan.
  7. Illustrate effective crisis interventions.

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Credit

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


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PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0033. This self-study activity will qualify for 7.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance


Counselors - South Carolina Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists

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Social Workers - Colorado Social Workers

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Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

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Social Workers - Minnesota Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This self-study package has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.


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Educators

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New Jersey Educators, Administrators & Education Services Personnel

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Indiana Educators

6.0 Professional Growth Points are available for full attendance of this self-study package per the Indiana Department of Education standards.


Montana Educators

This self-study package is offered for 6.0 Renewal Units. PESI, Inc. is an Approved Renewal Unit Provider with the Montana Office of Public Instruction.


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Florida Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants

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California Physical Therapists & Physical Therapist Assistants

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Texas Physical Therapists & Physical Therapist Assistants

This activity is provided by the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners Accredited Provider #2106032TX and meets continuing competence requirements for physical therapist and physical therapist assistant licensure renewal in Texas. This activity will provide 6.25 CCUs. The assignment of Texas PT CCUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by TPTA or TBPTE. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.


Physical Therapists & Physical Therapist Assistants

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New York Physical Therapists & Physical Therapist Assistants

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Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

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California Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board, #PDP 319. This course meets the qualifications for 6.0 hours of self-study continuing professional development credit for Speech-Language Pathologists or Audiologists, as required by the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board.


Kansas Speech-Language Pathologists

Approved for 7.5 self-study continuing education clock hours for Kansas licensed Speech-Language Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the APA and the ASWB. Full participation in this self-study course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.


Other Professions

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Speaker

Scott D. Walls, MA, LIPC, CCMHC's Profile

Scott D. Walls, MA, LIPC, CCMHC Related seminars and products


Scott D. Walls, MA, LIPC, CCMHC, is a mental health counselor in private practice in Lincoln, NE, and has previously spent 15 years with the Lincoln Public Schools as a behavior specialist and psychotherapist. Scott has provided therapy and consultation services for hundreds of children, teens and families in the Lincoln area. In addition, Scott has provided numerous trainings for teachers, administrators and case management staff for various agencies. He is also the author of Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents (PESI, 2016) and Behavior Management Skills Guide with Deb Rauner (PESI, 2015).

Scott co-founded a domestic violence group for female offenders and was a practicing therapist and case manager supervisor for a special project in Lincoln that offered treatment for torture and trauma survivors for refugees and immigrants. In addition to his duties as a therapist and consultant, Scott is the founder and owner of the Lincoln Karate Clinic, Inc. This karate school offers specialized karate lessons for children ages 4-7 and youth ages 8 and up. The karate school is well known for providing unique classes that incorporate Stranger Danger lessons and Scott’s personally developed antibullying program entitled: “The 4 C’s of Bullying.” 

Scott enjoys providing information to students and participants in a relaxed learning environment and makes every attempt to give participants practical and down to earth educational information.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Scott Walls maintains a private practice and is the founder and owner of the Lincoln Karate Clinic, Inc. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Scott Walls has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Target Audience

Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists/Physical Therapist Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists and other Mental Health Professionals.

Objectives

  1. Explore common behavioral episodes that challenge educators, administrators, professionals and characterize how these differences inform your choice of intervention.
  2. Analyze clinical mental health disorders such as ODD, ADHD, anxiety and depression and address their impact on student behavior in the classroom.
  3. Implement school-based intervention strategies to enhance behavioral skills in in the classroom.
  4. Develop effective verbal skills that increase compliant behavior in the classroom, including praise, corrective measures and reciprocal reactions to student behavior problems.
  5. Assess components of behavioral escalation and recommend intervention strategies to address each stage.
  6. Utilize protective techniques for classroom design in order to create a climate of physical and emotional safety and success.
  7. Develop effective crisis interventions plans that address significant behavior concerns, including aggression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.

Outline

Mental Health and Behavioral Issues in the Classroom

  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  • ADHD
  • Anxiety and depression
  • Self-harm/suicide
  • Bullying
  • Aggressive behaviors
  • Non compliance

Assessments: For Cause, Motivation and Reinforcement

  • Functional Behavioral Assessment forms including:
    • Functional assessment/behavioral change plan
    • Individual student safety plan
    • Intervention plan
    • Parent, student and teacher interview forms
    • Intake forms

Setting the stage for success

  • The 3 tiered approach
  • The types of change
  • Define the goal
  • Define success
  • Understand motivation
  • Address difficult adults

Safety Plans and Protective Techniques

  • Safe room set up
  • Physical intervention - when and why
  • Use of environment - for safety

Proactive Strategies

  • Behavioral plans
  • Motivational incentives
  • Incorporating the functions of the behavior

Reactive Strategies for:

  • Aggression
  • Escape behaviors
  • Noncompliance and following directions
  • Refusal to do school work

Targeted Techniques for:

  • Calming students
  • Environmental reaction plans

Crisis Interventions for:

  • Rage
  • Physical aggression
  • Self-harm/suicide
  • Harm to others
  • Specific case studies

Problem Solving AFTER a Behavioral Crisis

  • Staff training
  • Through conversation
  • Using a pre-made template

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