Overview:

• Position Statement on Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

• ABC’s of Children’s Mental Health

Assessment Considerations:

• Functional Behavioral Assessment: Deeper Understanding of Behavioral Handicaps or Trojan Horse?

• A Four-Step Model for Functional Behavior Assessment

• Implications of Temperament for the Practice of School Psychology

• Psychological Evaluations: What Every Principal Should Know

Treatment:

• How Schools Can Help Youth with Emotional and Behavioral Needs Complete Their High School Education and Prepare for Life After School

• Prepare Children for the Tests of Life, Not a Life of Tests

• Promoting Positive Mental and Emotional Health in Teens

Discipline:

• Manifestation Determination

• Disciplining Students With Disabilities

Special Topics:

ADHD

• An ADHD Primer

• ADHD Identification and Assessment: Basic Guidelines for Educators

• Psychosocial Treatment of ADHD

• Comorbidity Patterns and ADHD

• Myths and Realities of Interventions for Students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• Evaluating Medication Effects for Students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity

• The ADHD Epidemic: Threat or Opportunity for School Psychology? (Part I)

• The ADHD Epidemic: Threat or Opportunity for School Psychology? (Part II)

• Attention Problems: Attention, Trauma and Anxiety (Part I)

• Attention Problems:  Depression and Temperament (Part II)

• Attention Problems: Nutrional, Medical and Ecological Sources of Inattention (Part III)

Death

• Dealing with Death at School

• Responding to Death

• Helping Children Cope with Loss, Death and Grief: Response to a National Tragedy

• Death and Grief in the Family: Providing Support at School

• Death: Dealing with Crisis at School Practical Suggestions for Educators

• Teen Suicides: Life, After Death

Depression

• What is Depression?  Basic Facts

• When it Hurts to Be a Teenager

• Depression and Cognitive Difficulties in Children and Adolescents

Divorce

• The Effects of Divorce on Children

Pervasive Developmental Disorders

• Designing Social Skills Interventions for Students With Asperger Syndrome

• Asperger’s Syndrome: A Guide to Secondary Principals

• Professional Issues in the Assessment of Children with Autism

• Assessment and Treatment of Children with Autism in the Schools

• Social Skills Interventions for Students With Autism

• Outcome Evaluation for Children With Autism: Focus on Social Skills Interventions

Trauma

• Identifying Individuals at Risk for Psychological Trauma

• Identifying Psychological Trauma Victims: Tips for Mental Health Professionals and Crisis Responders

• Identifying Seriously Traumatized Children Tips for Parents and Educators

• Children’s Reaction to Trauma: Suggestions for Parents

• Reactions to Trauma: Suggestions for Teens

• Trauma and Children A Parent Handout for Helping Children Heal

• Coping After a Crisis

• Trauma Victims and Psychological Triage: Considerations for Schools Mental Health Professionals

• Critical Incident: Stress Information

• Group Crisis Intervention

• Cultural Perspectives on Trauma and Critical Response

War

• School and War