Adam Feinberg & Lindsay Fallon describe common research-based practices to address students’ attention-seeking and escape-maintained behaviors.

School-based motivational interviewing (SBMI) is a conversational style useful in counseling and consultation. In this podcast, listeners will learn open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries to engage students, teachers, and parents and using change talk pertaining to the adoption of academic enabling skills and behavioral strategies.

This podcast will highlight research on conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC), a family–school partnership intervention that supports children by engaging families, strengthening family–school connections, and building parent and teacher competencies.

Young children need competencies and skill sets that are formed through interactions and relationships in their earliest years. This podcast will present an evidence-based family engagement intervention for supporting children and families as they prepare to begin school.

Blending academics, behavior, family engagement, community outreach, and trauma-informed care through the MTSS-B framework has benefited Laconia schools. Using the framework, schools are able to focus on the power of relationships with students, staff, and families to support resiliency in the face of ongoing home and community risk factors.

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The Whole School Whole Community Whole Child (WSCC) model promotes integration of services to facilitate positive student outcomes across domains. Although coordinating practices makes intuitive sense, identifying best practices across social, emotional, behavioral, physical, and academic domains can be daunting, which highlights the need for practical guidance to support implementation choices.

Self-care is a non-negotiable necessity. Listeners will identify their chronic stressors and learn mindfulness and self-care strategies to protect against burnout.

The need for school-based counseling supports for LGBTQ+ youth is evident in higher rates of unhappiness, drug use, school dropout, truancy, suicide, harassment, family discord, and reduced self-referral rates. This podcast is an overview of the session designed to empower school-based mental health staff to serve as advocates for LGBTQ+ youth, provide counseling support for students in Grades 6–12, and foster resiliency in at-risk students.

This podcast begins with lecture and discussion identifying the dangers and opportunities of social media use during crises. The effects of texting, blogs, microblogs, and image and video sharing will be examined. The podcast also will explore smartphone applications relevant to crisis intervention and identify technology that can support crisis communications.