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Description:
This course is one of ten in the School Mental Health Training Series: Addressing Barriers to Learning. Learn to better understand the risky behavior of children and adolescents and how to counteract that behavior with resiliency factors. You will become better able to help children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic events. Group crisis debriefing will be introduced and explained.

Learning Objectives:
- Identify risk factors and risky behaviors in youth
- Understand adolescent development and assess adolescent functioning level
- Respond and talk to children and adolescents about traumatic events that occur in their lives
- Become a skilled helper for children and adolescents who have experienced a traumatic event
- Conduct a group crisis debriefing using the three-step NOVA model to decrease the incidence of acute and post-traumatic stress soon after a critical incident

Author(s):
Mark Stebnicki, PhD, CRC, LPC, CCM
Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Counseling
Director of Graduate Program in Rehabilitation Counseling
School of Allied Health Sciences, East Carolina University

Target Audience:
This course is designed primarily for school personnel. School nurses, counselors, social workers, psychologists, school resource officers, student services directors, exceptional children program directors, principals and assistant principals will find this course useful in addressing needs of students. Other school personnel, such as teachers and teacher assistants will find the course useful. Child mental health professionals may also benefit from this course.

Length: 2 hours

Credit Type(s): 2 CNE Contact Hours, 2 NBCC, 2 NCSAPPB GSB, 2 Public School Personnel Renewal Credit, .02 CEU, 2.0 Contact Hours

Cost: $25.00