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The course: School-Based Mental Health: Best Practices and Evidence-Based Interventions for Successful Treatment in a Complex Setting by Ashley Rose

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The role of a school-based mental health provider is complex, nuanced, and multi-faceted. And as more schools deliver on the urgent need for mental health services for students, clinicians are finding themselves in a new role where the culture, expectations, and delivery of services is unlike any other setting.

Join Ashley Rose, LCSW, LSSW, for this 3-hour training that highlights everything you need to know to confidently provide quality care and establish your unique role within the school, including how to:

• Develop positive working relationships with teachers, administration, and support staff
• Provide evidence-based strategies and interventions for anxiety, depression, ADHD, oppositional behavior, and more
• Navigate the gray area of protecting confidentiality in such a public setting
• And more!

If you work with kids or adolescents in a school, community, or in-home setting, you don’t want to miss this compelling training – sign up today!

1. Apply evidence-based intervention strategies for individual and group treatment, family engagement, and crisis intervention in a school setting. 
2. Develop effective protocol for responding to risk of breaches in client/student confidentiality when providing services in a school setting. 
3. Utilize effective communication and rapport building skills with school personnel who directly or indirectly work with your client/student.

School-Based Providers: Defining your Role and Getting an “In” at Your Site

• Common language in education, 
• Key questions for pinpointing where your services are best utilized
• How to build positive relationships with staff while still setting boundaries
• When your physical space/office is less than ideal
• Working with staff who are skeptical of your role

Confidentiality in a Public Setting: A Balancing Act that Relies on Communication

• FERPA and HIPAA requirements – what are the gray areas?
• How to address confidentiality in groups
• Should you be included in IEP and 504 meetings?
• What to do if confidentiality is violated
• Common scenarios where confidentiality can be compromised (and what to do):
  • Getting kids out of the classroom
  • Seeing clients in the hallway
  • When clients’ friends want to see you
  • Who can see risk assessments?
  • Contributing meaningfully in school meetings
  • And more!

Evidence-Based Strategies and Interventions that Translate to a School Setting

• Skill building: Expression of emotion, self-regulation, distress tolerance, impulse control
• School-based interventions for anxiety, depression, ADHD, oppositional behavior, and more
• Family engagement: communication difficulties, trust building, and overinvolved families
• Group therapy: Who, when and how; pros and cons
• Beyond therapy: crisis intervention, clinical conversations, and other school consultations