PRePaRE
Actions to specifically ensure that both physical and psychological safety initiatives are integrated into EOP
Security Annex
Secure building and move to a locked room in response to imminent threat; remain out of sight
Lockdown Annex
talking with a teacher whose having a problem with their student (consulting, offering resources, informal observations, working with a student through the teacher)is an example of a
Non-Directive Approach
•Have documented efficacy for targeted behavior change
•Include teaching
•Can be incorporated into counseling to achieve desired outcomes
•Designed to reduce, eliminate, acquire, or increase behaviors depending on the counseling goals
Behavioral approaches
•Experience is created by a person directly and actively choosing what to remember and how to hold onto the experience; the focus is on the here-and-now
•A fundamental assumption is that when individuals are presented with several unstructured individual parts in the environment, they tend to apply structure and form to the parts and consequently experience the data as a gestalt or whole
may have blocking or disrupting elements; such blockages can be useful to the individual but they can also result in ‘unfinished business
Gestalt Therapy – a humanistic approach -Fritz Perls
Identify missing, injured, and deceased, and report attendance
Accounting for All Persons Annex
Notify families; logistics and consideration for on-site, drive-through, and off-site setup; provide mental health supports; recommend a school- and district-level team
Reunification Annex
•This is a context for assessment and intervention
•During the play therapy, the school psychologist is gathering assessment day
•In observing the child in play, you are listening for the language of the child and the toys to be their words
•Play enhances the capacity to communicate
School Psychologist as counselor in play therapy
based on do they have realistic thoughts?? Challenge them and make them see their thoughts are the problem
•Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
*Cogntitive-Behavioral Approaches
•Unclear or nonexistent boundaries may result in a disturbance in the contact process; explained as disruptions in the contact cycle
EX going outside with hair wet will get me sick
Gestalt Therapy
Ensure accessible communication; integrate school and first responder communication systems; work with media
Communications and Warning Annex
Includes coordination for disease outbreak, first aid, and assessment and management of threats and suicide
Identify the key components of the Public Health, Medical, and Mental Health Annex
Toys to select for play therapy..
•Nurturing toys, such as baby dolls, baby bottles, food and kitchen toys, items related to medical care (e.g., stethoscope, bandages)
•Aggressive toys such as handcuffs, toy soldiers, monsters, and aggressive puppets
•Toys related to social experiences (e.g., doll house, people, cash register)
•Communication toys (e.g., telephone)
•Mastery toys (e.g., school supplies, chalkboard)
this is where the person is right now, this is how the person sees the world, I can use their narrative to help them see where they cant function (works against them)
•Dialectical Behavior Therapy
**Cognitive – Behavioral Approaches
emphasizes empowering people to take responsibility for their influence on a problem and challenges them to increase their awareness of their own strengths and resources that may help to overcome the problem
Ex "Why is it dangerous to go outside?'
Empty chair example
Gestalt Therapy emphasizes
Identify shelters on and off school grounds; standard and alternative exit routes
Evacuation Annex
Provide mental health interventions, promoting resilience, and guidelines for memorials; consider short- and long-term supports needed
Recovery Annex
•Used as assessment and counseling intervention (Turner, 2005)
•Therapeutic mode for narrative expression with the sand offering multiple levels of psyche exploration (Lowenfeld, 1993)
Sand Tray Therapy
solution focused, offer goals, facilitate and assit/ questioning their experience .. Is it even realistic??
•Choice Therapy and Reality Therapy
**Cognitive – Behavioral Approaches
•Refers to a comprehensive range of service that embody the use of treatment, education and recreation to help individuals with a variety of disabilities through the use of recreational service, individuals learn more appropriate, effective and constructive ways to develop and use their leisure and recreational time
Therapetutic Recreation
Prepare to seal off rooms, accommodate special and medical needs, plan for extended time; often used in response to severe weather or a chemical, radiological, or biological emergency
Shelter-in-Place Annex
Ensures that essential functions (communications, teaching, facilities) continue during and after a crisis
Continuity of Operations Annex
What are examples of non directive approaches
consultation (depends), informal observations, play therapy, sand therapy
•the first phase is to recognize a wide range of emotions, and practice arousal reduction techniques (e.g., deep breathing)
•Learn cognitive strategies for hurtful or unhelpful thoughts
•Then allow narrative to become progressively more detailed
•Provide training and improved alignment with Tier 1 positive behavioral approaches
Trauma Focused CBT
•Is a type of expressive therapy in which the creation of art is a modality to improve psychological health, develop control of emotions and behaviors, and gain insight
•It can be used with students with disabilities to develop new skills, increase awareness of social situations, and enhance cognitive abilities
Taking the problem and externalizing it
Art Therapy