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Welcome to this series on fostering resilience in children—the role of the family. In this series, you will have a ...
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It is incumbent upon educators to develop increased trauma sensitivity as they welcome the return of children back to school ...
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Some students will enter the school year more impacted by trauma. Some of these students were trauma-impacted before the pandemic ...
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Dealing With the Emotional Impact of the Pandemic on Educators and Returning Students We must give serious thought to the ...
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The materials below include guidelines and specific ideas about how to Support Children Who are Home due to the corona ...
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The following is a list of materials to understand and support trauma-impacted students in the classroom. The primary objective in ...
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Children who have been impacted by trauma have brains and bodies that are primed to react quickly —to feel threatened—even ...
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Protective factors can contribute significantly to children’s ability to successfully cope with the circumstances or recover from them more quickly ...
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Nearly 50% of all children have experienced one or more of these circumstances or events, and many have experienced them ...
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This article details the physiological, emotional, psychological, and cognitive impacts of complex trauma such as: Unregulated Stress Response System; Impaired ...
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Definitions of "trauma supportive" including description of "trauma sensitive" and "trauma informed" school environments. Please also see the Guide to ...
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This set of guidelines is organized into two major sections. The first section is a listing of dozens of supportive ...
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Working in education (especially in therapeutic programs) will wear you down and wear you out unless you do something about ...
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This article will present guidelines for using routines, and is helpful after reading one of the two seminal articles Important ...
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This is a "coupon program" designed to increase greater self-control in young students (ages 6-12) who are in the habit ...
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Prior to going into more detail about the Coupon Program it is important to understand the role of student comprehension ...
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The most effective social emotional learning efforts are the ones that happen in real time in the classroom (more so ...
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Comprehension guides support children when comprehension breakdown is a significant contributor to their emotional and behavioral problems in the classroom ...
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The ADHD Coupon Program is designed to develop increased independence and self-monitoring skills in ADHD students, along with increased motivation ...
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Teaching during this pandemic has been an arduous challenge for so many reasons that could not have been fully anticipated, ...
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6/20/20 Just checking in again, now that we're reaching the end of the school year, a year like no other ...
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Social Emotional Learning: Soft Skills for School and Life Soft skills are a combination of social skills, work habits, communication ...
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Use any of these scales, together with the Calm and Settled visual in the section on Taking a Break Comprehension ...
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There are many "unofficial" leaders in a school building and sometimes there are "official" leaders who lack leadership legitimacy. All ...
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The Green Zone is a recognition program on a large magnetic board with three major color zones, Green, Yellow, and ...
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Almost anyone can learn the methods associated with the Brain Based Therapeutic Intervention Program for Children (BBTIPC), but what people ...
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For information about how to use this resource and how to create a resilience plan, refer to the Compassion Fatigue ...
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Understanding the Daily Green Zone Ratings The Green Zone is a recognition program on a large magnetic board with three ...
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This comprehension guide is intended to improve student comprehension of restorative breaks (https://kevinplummerphd.com/restorative-breaks/). See Improving Comprehension of the Nuances of ...
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A restorative break can be used to help children who are perseverating on or “stuck” on a particular problem and ...
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On my first father's day without a father I'm reminded that, although I am no artist, as my father was, ...
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Check charts are probably the most familiar behavior management tool to school staff and parents. In response to disruptive behavior, ...
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Food Hoarder Exercising Grocery Store Patience II ...
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Bank Card Debacle A shaky old man in line in front of me at the grocery store tried to pay ...
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It was not the first day of winter but it felt like it today because it was the first snow ...
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It's a warm Friday afternoon and I'm out of work a little early. I breathe easier as I leave 95 ...
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Gabe, I believe your defense is a week from this Friday. So, soon you'll defend your dissertation, reach the end ...
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Happy birthday Ben. Being your dad has always been a privilege and a tremendous gift to me and that hasn't ...
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A therapeutic classroom provides children who have moderate to severe self-control and self-regulation problems (due to emotional, behavioral, social and ...
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This program is designed to increase greater self-control in students who are verbally impulsive. This includes behavior such as, frequent ...
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Printable coupons for use in the Impulsive Responding Program. direct pdf download Related Articles: Impulsive Responding Program (directions) Impulsive Responding ...
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Hold Onto Your Thoughts  Sometimes while you're doing your work quietly at your desk and the teacher is working with ...
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Prior to starting the Impulsive Responding Program with a student the Impulsive Responding Guidebook should be read with the student ...
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Please also see Distress Tolerance - Guide to Materials. This scale can be used as an alternative measure of distress ...
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Worn Out can be used as an alternative to stress or frustration. Please also see Distress Tolerance - Guide to ...
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This scale can be used as an alternative measure of distress for students.  Please also see Distress Tolerance - Guide ...
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The Distress Support Plan is a visual guide what a student can do, and/or what a teacher can do to ...
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This is an example of a comprehension guide that is specific to a particular student. Each student's story may be ...
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This narrative can be used with the Distress Tolerance program. This is an example of a feeling profile that is ...
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This visual support helps student identify behaviors that can alleviate frustration... Please also see Distress Tolerance - Guide to Materials ...
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Build positive relationships and increase student motivation. This comprehensive guide (2019) includes information about: Talk Less and Show More—Visual Support ...
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Work engagement and compassion satisfaction are protective factors in the prevention of job burnout and compassion fatigue, so we should ...
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People who work with trauma-impacted children, emotionally impacted children, and children who are highly emotionally reactive are vulnerable to the ...
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The lists within this document are not psychometric measures of risk for compassion fatigue. There is no way to derive ...
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Strengths and Protective Factors for Minimizing Compassion Fatigue Compassion fatigue is a stress condition with stress responses falling into two ...
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The initial goal of the therapeutic program is to increase student engagement and productivity over the course of the school ...
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Comprehension Guide : Learning Something New  •  please also see: Gradient of Knowing Program Direct pdf download: Gradient of Knowing ...
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Distress From Not Knowing Enough: The Gradient of Knowing Program A Comprehension Guide  please also see: Gradient of Knowing Visual ...
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The safe room is the last stage of de-escalation, and only implemented because the student cannot be kept safe by ...
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Use this tool to evaluate the level of therapeutic communication in the classroom and to set goals for increasing proficiency ...
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This article is a summary of therapeutic communication recommendations. For any questions about specific recommendations and a thorough explanation, rationale ...
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Today I celebrate you by telling you that 28 years ago, on the day you were born, my life became ...
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Happy 27th birthday Gabe. I celebrate your love of people and your love of games and life. I celebrate your ...
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Sometimes every second matters. This is what just happened in 3 seconds. On my way home from work today an ...
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Asking for permission while in school is difficult for many students to understand. Some students are impulsive and they might ...
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Closing the Comprehension Gap Many children have difficulty processing social situations. Children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder have known difficulties ...
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This document is intended as a guide for teachers, so they can help parents make the transition from anecdotal notes ...
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The Clearing up Confusion Routine is a step-by-step outline of the problem-solving process described in the main article, Social Comprehension ...
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Please also see:  Distress Tolerance: Guide to Materials Everyone likes to follow their regular routine. It makes the day easier ...
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Please see all Warming up/Staying Neutral downloads below this article. Prior to beginning this program, read Staying Neutral, A Warm ...
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Sometimes teachers will tell students that they must do something. They might say, "It's time to come back to the ...
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Group Listening, Looking and Thinking direct pdf download ...
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Many students have trouble tolerating frustration and managing stress. They react in extreme ways to what others might consider minor ...
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The following are visual guides to help students understand nuances of how to successfully work in a group. Working in ...
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Creating Comprehension Guides "embedded within some school routines are situations that are not as intuitive to some young students" Students ...
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A Student Performance Rating Scale The Brain-Based Therapeutic Intervention Program for Children This comprehensive rating form can be used to ...
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Observations by clinical, consultation or coordination staff, OR input, questions and concerns, request for consultation by classroom staff process chart ...
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(For Comprehension Guides and Other Visual Feedback Programs) Students who lack an understanding of the subtleties of routines will struggle ...
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