Law and legal
Duty to warn and protected and who it originates from
Protect: protect everyone involved
Zero tolerance policies
Mandated predetermined, harsh consequences for rule violations. ineffective and not endorsed by NASP. They increased suspensions, expulsions, racial disproportionality, dropout rate, and repeat suspensions for students with disabilities a manifestation determination is required.
What are the steps involved in a typical REBT session?
Activating stimulus, belief, consequence, dispute, effective new belief
This tier, practice strengthens pro, social skills, reduces, behavioral interruptions, and improves long-term academic outcomes when embedded across the entire school
What is SEL instruction integrated at tier one
This core Rogers principal requires the counselor to genuinely be themselves in a session rather than act like a therapist
What is congruence?
Main difference between NASP and APA ethical codes and why must school psychologist understand both
NASP is for school psychologist and APA is for psychologist. School psychologist must understand both, together, both codes ensure that school psychologist provide legally compliant, ethically sound, and professionally responsible, psychological services within the school setting.
The Virginia model
A multidisciplinary team, there is no profile of a school shooter instead assesses wherether a student poses a threat. Consider access to weapons. Threat categories include
transient: not serious
Substantive: possible intent
Imminent: serious and immediateThis non-directive therapy approach emphasis in allowing the child to guide the session while the therapist is a reflection of feelings, setbacks limit, and communicates unconditional acceptance
What is child centered play therapy?
According to the three ease of trauma, this component explains that trauma is not defined by the event itself, but the individual subjective interpretation, appraisal, and meaning
What is experience of the event?
Before changing placement due to behavior, schools must hold this meeting to determine whether behavior was caused by disability
What is a manifestation determination review?
What circumstances must a manifestation determination review be held in what questions must the team answer?
MDR must be held to determine if a student‘s behavior was caused by their disability. The two questions the team must answer is: is it a manifestation to their disability and was then the school successfully using the students IEP
Barriers to threat assessment
Lack of defined processes, staff overload, incomplete assessments, poor, implementation, fidelity, and reliance on profiling instead of behavior behaviors
The CBT technique teaches students to identify triggering situations, recognize the thoughts that follow, evaluate whether those thoughts are accurate or helpful, and replace them with more adaptive alternatives, forming the backbone of cognitive restructuring
What is the ABC model of cognitive restructuring?
This TAPP communication strategy involves renaming or relabeling, thoughts or behaviors, provide a more positive or alternative perspective, and helps prevent bias interpretations of family engagement
What is reframing?
This large study found strong links between childhood male treatment/stressors and poor adult outcomes, although it did not measure individual appraisal
What is the ACE study?
Difference between IEP and section 504 plan
IEP requires student to meet specific disability categories and specialized instruction. It includes measurable goals, related services, accommodations, an individualized instruction. A 504 plan requires only that a disability substantially limits a major life activity. Provided accommodations but not individualized instruction
Strategies for creating partnerships
Short term strategies include welcoming school environment, needs assessment, good news, calls, offsite events, childcare/translation/food, newsletter with tips, suggestion, boxes, structured conference. Long-term strategies include translating materials, multiple family, staff, interactions, yearly, home visits, partner, workshops, first day, events, and parent teacher student conference
In this stage of change, a client is aware of a problem, but not yet ready to commit to action. The therapist role is to help them, understand the problem and increase belief that change is possiblet
What is the contemplation stage?
This federal law was intended to protect indigenous children from disproportionate foster care placement yet insufficient funding, and oversight have impeded its implementation for over four decade
What is the Indian child welfare act?
This TAPP strategy prevents consultants from misinterpreting culturally influenced behaviors as disengagement by renaming them to reflect culturally embedded expectations and strengths
What is reframing?
Endrew F ruling changed what expectations for student progress, how?
IEP must be reasonably calculated to enable progress that is appropriately ambitious
This core principle of the Virginia threat assessment model emphasizes that the goal is not to predict whether a student is a future school shooter, but instead of determine whether the student demonstrates behaviors that indicate immediate or emergent danger. According to the model, this principal guides teams to examine multiple streams of information and develop a risk energy mitigation plan addressing underlying needs rather than relying on profile.
What is determining whether the student poses a threat?
This therapy, combining elements of person centered, just adult, and existential therapy theory, helps clients access under controlled emotions, or contain overwhelming ones, emphasizing visceral emotional experience as a primary driver of behavioral change
What is emotion focused therapy
In this stage of trauma informed implementation schools begin using lessons learned from earlier phases, adjusting and recalibrating after setbacks, while relying on ongoing data collection in self reflection to expand systemwide practice
What is full implementation?
According to best practice crisis guidelines, when a student expresses suicidal intent, and then appears suddenly calm and compliant, this clinical phenomenon requires a heighten level of supervision because it may indicate a final decision to act
What is the suicide, false recovery or calm before the attempt danger sign?