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These category of indicators includes loss of motivation, decreased attendance, and slowed problem-solving skills.
What are academic indicators of distress?
These indicators include appearing tearful, sad, agitated, angry.
What are emotional indicators of stress?
A student jokes about suicide, death, or dying.
What are suicidal ideation indicators?
This is where mental health concerns are most likely to be detected.
What is school?
Student spends excessive time with teacher or guidance counselor, avoids attending class, and isolates from others.
What are social/behavioral signs of distress?
Student who is usually cheerful and social in class starts behaving paranoid, aggressive and withdrawn.
What are 3 social/behavioral signs of distress?
Student arrives to class with the same clothes multiple days in a row, smells of marijuana and keeps falling asleep in class.
What physical indicators of distress?
The loss or illness or a loved one, recent break-up, and sexual orientation crisis.
What are distressing life events?
This is an academic indicator that would be considered the opposite of loss of motivation.
What is overworking or excessive anxiety about academic work?
These are other emotional indicators of distress.
What are feelings of worthlessness and absence of response to normally upsetting events?
What are feelings of hopelessness and decrease in mood?
These are three academic indicators of students in distress.
What are lower standardized testing scores, trouble completing homework, and trouble persevering in challenging tasks?
This can result from distressing life events such as violence, life threats, injury, death, abuse.
What is trauma?