M-3 Inside Job: Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Educators
Presenter
Formats and Times
- In-Person Training: 4.25 hours (8:30-12:45)
- On-Demand Webinar: 2.25 hours
Content
Treatment planning for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBDs) requires a comprehensive, systems-informed approach that extends beyond environmental modification. It also necessitates the direct instruction of strategies that enhance students' capacity for emotional self-regulation throughout the school day. Evidence-based cognitive behavioral interventions (CBIs) have traditionally been delivered within specialized educational settings. However, with thoughtful adaptation and scaffolding, many of these interventions can be effectively integrated into inclusive and general education environments. These strategies are designed to promote emotional resilience, adaptive problem-solving, stress reduction, and the cultivation of intrinsic motivation. This interactive, practice-based training equips educators and school-based clinicians with key CBI tools essential for the development of a structured, trauma-informed milieu. When aligned with students' external mental health supports, these strategies contribute to enhanced emotional stability, improved behavioral outcomes, and increased engagement in the academic environment.
Intended Audience
Special education teachers, school psychologists, administrators, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSWs), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFTs), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCCs), clinical psychologists, Educationally Related Mental Health Services (ERMHS) staff or school counselors specifically designated to work with special needs students, behaviorists, and others who actively work with youth who have mental health concerns
Participants Will
- Discover methods to cultivate student values that lead to action plans aimed at improving intrinsic motivation toward learning, participation, and the development of positive future outcomes.
- Learn signs, symptoms, and remedies for educator stress, which commonly plays a role in student reactivity, and learn the secrets (and the power) of becoming a neutral provider.
- Learn skill-based stress reduction and mindfulness methods to help students regulate and manage moods.
- Learn to use a matrix that helps students quickly identify their needs and learn a simplified check-in/check-out system that can help foster awareness for monitoring moods, proper support, and timely intervention.
