UNCONDITIONAL EDUCATION
  • Blog
  • About Us
    • Our Model
    • Our Leadership Team
    • Press
    • Contact Us
  • News + Resources
    • News You Can Use
    • Resources
  • Unconditional Education Book

Welcome

​Please scroll down to read our Unconditional Education blog posts.

​You can click the button below to learn more about our Unconditional Education and School Based Services!

OUR UE MODEL AND SERVICES

Tier 1 Interventions: Collaborating with School Staff to Support Students’ Mental Health and Wellness

2/6/2023

0 Comments

 
Picture
Clinicians in the Mosaic Outpatient Program provide a range of services to our school sites, students, and their families by utilizing a three-tier model of intervention that includes trainings, workshops, and other support for the broader school community. Working together, we can significantly increase the opportunities for each student to make progress, advance academically, and meet their potential. Our clinicians are regularly asked by our school partners to conduct classroom and staff presentations. These topics include self-care and wellness strategies, as well as understanding mental health diagnoses such as anxiety and depression.
Picture
Over the past few years, Amber Keil, one of our Hayward High clinicians, has partnered with one of the school’s science teachers to provide a 50-minute workshop to 9th grade students on the topic of “Understanding Stress, Anxiety, and Procrastination.” Together, they have co-created this presentation to maximize student voice in sharing their experiences managing stress and anxiety. The presentation also allows opportunities to practice coping strategies, including a grounding mindfulness exercise, create a self-care plan, and feel comfortable talking to each other about their stress levels. They discuss time management strategies such as setting timers, taking breaks while completing homework, eliminating notifications for social media apps on their phones, and writing down their homework assignments in their agendas.
​

Students have expressed that the psychoeducation piece on how stress connects to procrastination was very helpful. This portion of the presentation is filled with visuals on the projector to help students understand the procrastination cycle. Students have shared that they didn’t realize that procrastination was a stress response. They also found it normalizing and validating to hear so many of their classmates feeling the same way, especially after returning to in-person instruction following distance learning.

Picture
The presentation wraps up with a reflection time where students identify two time-management practices and one self-care activity they would like to engage in that week. Students complete an exit ticket with feedback on ways to make the presentation more effective, as well as ideas on how they want to continue this conversation within their class moving forward. What an amazing opportunity for students to learn about how procrastination and stress are connected, and identify strategies to support them with managing these experiences!
​

This is just one example of the many ways clinicians get to provide Tier 1 interventions in our school communities while also strengthening their relationships with school staff they work with. We are so grateful for the collaboration with our teachers and the invitation to discuss mental health and wellness topics with students throughout the year!

Blog Post Written By: Mosaic Outpatient Team
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Authors:

    School Program Partnerships

    We're Hiring!

    Interested in joining our School Program Partnerships' Team​? Check out our open positions below!
    Teachers
    School Therapists
    Classroom Counselors

    Categories:

    All
    Academic Strand Updates
    All In! Snapshots
    Behavioral Strand Updates
    Clinical Strand Updates
    Program Highlights
    School Highlights
    Staff Guest Posts
    Staff Highlights

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.