Teaching Students How to Manage their Emotions & Stress On-Line Course

Coping with Stress in a Stressful World: Teaching Students How to Manage Their Emotions, Thoughts, and Behavior

Welcome to Your Teaching Students How to Manage their Emotions & Stress Course: Home Page

      The recent pandemic aside, there are more students experiencing high levels of stress than ever before.  Significantly, however, stress is more prevalent among school-aged students than trauma—even though the popular press typically uses the latter over the former term. Moreover, recent research reviewing over 7,000 school-related studies over the past decade has found that there are no Trauma-Informed School Programs that have been effectively evaluated such that they have demonstrated any efficacy in addressing student trauma.

      Given this–and the psychological differences between stress and trauma, schools and staff need, first and foremost, to be stress-sensitive and stress-responsive to their students. This means that educators need to understand how the interactions between students’ physiological and psychological processes affect their classroom and school behavior and interactions.

      Systemically, this begins with safe schools, positive relationships, prosocial interactions, and teaching students, from preschool through high school, interpersonal, social problem-solving, conflict prevention and resolution, and emotional control, communication, and coping skills. These skills help students develop the resilience and protective strengths that they need to make them both stress-resistant and stress-responsive. 

      This four-session video-course discusses the differences between anxiety, stress, and trauma, and addresses how students’ emotional “triggers” result in fight, flight, or freeze responses. We talk about ways to teach students emotional self-regulation in the classroom so that they learn how to prevent and prepare for stressful situations. And, we address how to analyze why some students still have difficulties, and what cognitive-behavioral interventions our mental health professionals may need to consider for them. All of this will be adapted for both general and special education classrooms.

   Once again, WELCOME to this Course !!!

Course Introduction and Syllabus

   This brief video introduces your course instructor, Dr. Howie Knoff, the organization of the MTSS course, and the objectives for each session.

Presentation Handout:

2 0 Stress Course Introduction Handout 1 2021.pdf

Course Syllabus:

0 Stress Course Syllabus 2021.pdf

Teaching Students How to Manage their Emotions Course Sessions and Links

Session 1. Anxiety, Trauma, Stress and Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Self-Management  [1 hour/7 minutes]

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Session 2.  Destressing Our Schools  [1 hour/8 minutes]

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Session 3. Teaching and Nurturing Emotional Control and Self-Regulation  [1 hour/42 minutes]

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Session 4. Understanding and Addressing Students with Significant Emotional Needs  [2 hours/6 minutes]

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Teaching Students How to Manage their Emotions Course Summary and Check-Out

Course Summary

Certificate of Attendance

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