SchoolMentalHealth.org Newsletters These newsletters were developed by the Center for School Mental Health (CSMH) for different projects and initiatives. They are available on SchoolMentalHealth.org in the hopes that you will use these to share information on mental health-related topics with school staff and mental health clinicians. The CSMH is granting permission for use of these tools within schools by professionals for education and training. Commercial use of these tools is strictly prohibited. The newsletters below are in Microsoft Publisher format.
Promoting Wellness in School Mental Health
These newsletters were specifically designed as part of a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, led by Dr. Mark Weist designed to enhance quality in school mental health (SMH). Newsletter 1: The six core virtues of positive psychology are discussed Newsletter 2: Topics include goal-setting, maintaining change and staying motivated Newsletter 3: Topics include benefits of outdoor activity, increasing your energy levels, stress reduction, and boosting your metabolism Newsletter 4: Topics include peer support groups, resisting stress at work, and the way to wellness Newsletter 5: Topics include the effects of melatonin of sleep and improving air quality at home Newsletter 6: Topics include the benefits of a healthy diet and tips for health holiday eating Newsletter 7: Topics include facts about vitamins, and ways to prevent the flu Newsletter 8: Topics include focusing on wellness in the new year and ways to manage everyday stress Newsletter 9: Topics include dieting and signs of a fad diet Newsletter 10: Topics include burnout at work and using exercise to reduce stress Newsletter 11: Topics include pulling it all together: mind, body and soul and finding the fire within
Enhancing Quality in School Mental Health
These newsletters were specifically designed as part of a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, led by Dr. Mark Weist designed to enhance quality in school mental health (SMH). Newsletter 1: Topics include relaxation techniques for reducing problem behaviors, principles of positive psychology, helping students with ADHD in the classroom and interpersonal psychotherapy Newsletter 2: Topics include why we need evidence-based practice, preventing dropout, and engaging families in school mental health
ADHD Part I: Topics include school-based evaluations of ADHD and coaching teens to achieve their goals
ADHD Part II: Topics include classroom interventions for ADHD, strategies for school clinicians, and medical treatments for ADHD
Anxiety: Topics include coaching to competency and evidence-based interventions to help your anxious child
Depression: Topics include depression screening and cognitive restructuring
Disruptive Behaviors: Topics include guidelines for talking with parents and, tangible rewards, and etiology of disruptive behavior Family Focus- Collaboration: Topics include involving families as partners Family Focus- Engagement: Topics include engaging families and establishing a therapeutic alliance with families Family Focus- Introduction: Topics include four themes of clinical practice (i.e., engagement, collaboration, support, and empowerment)
Family Focus- Support:Topics include connecting families to neighborhood, community, state and federal support Medication Management- ADHD: Topics include ADHD medication management and how to discuss ADHD medication with families
Medication Management- Depression: Topics include depressive disorders and practice elements for depression OCD & Anxiety: Topics include treatments techniques for students and student response to anxiety PTSD & Medication Management: Topics include clinician concerns about exposure technique in treatment and medication management of anxiety disorders Therapy Relationships: Topics include empirically supported therapy relationships and practice recommendations
Additional Topics:
These newsletters were developed by CSMH faculty and staff to address additional topics of interest to stakeholders in children's mental health.
Academics and Mental Health: Topics include an overview of academics and mental health, motivating students to do their homework and the impacts of homework. ADHD: Topics include an overview of ADHD, facts and myths about ADHD
Behavior Management Part I: Topics include behavior management strategies for children with attentional disorders and demandments of behavior management Behavior Management Part II: Topics include problem behaviors, aggressive children, and tips and solutions Behavioral-Emotional Problems: Topics include identification of youth with behavioral and emotional problems Back to School: Topics include getting back on track, motivating students, and stress busters Crisis Intervention: Topics include unexpected occurrences, crisis intervention for school or community crisis, and common symptoms associated with crises Daily Rap: Topics include the "Daily Rap" and team building in the classroom Depression: Topics include the basics of depression, treating depresssion, and working with students with depression Disability Awareness: Topics include learning disabilities in school aged children and teaching and educational strategies for educators Family Involvement: Topics include factors that influence family involvement and strategies for involving families Identifying Mental Health Concerns: Topics include identifying mental health concerns and the myth of the bad child Peer Mediation: Topics include the ins and out of peer mediation and mediation steps Peer Pressure: Topics include the basics of peer pressure, positive vs negative peer pressure, and influences of culture on peer pressure Resilience: Topics include what is resilience and how to foster resilience in schools School Climate: Topics include the importance of school climate and creating positive classroom climate School Violence: Topics include initiating change, statistics, student stressors, and warning signs Staff Wellness: Topics include burnout, preventing stress, six dimensions of wellness, and tips to creating wellness Substance Use and Abuse by Youth: Topics include the warning signs, substance use facts and dispelling the myth about marajuana. Suspension: Topics include alternatives to out-of-school suspension and too many suspensions in Maryland public schools Wellness: Topics include enjoy the outdoors, maintaining change, and motivation station Wellness for the New Year: Topics include focus on wellness as a New Year's resolution and how to reduce stress
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