Teaching Students How to Manage their Emotions On-Line Course: Session 4

Session 4. Understanding and Addressing Students with Significant Emotional Needs

[2 hours/6 minutes]

Contents and Brief Description

Teaching Students Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Self-Management/Self-Regulation Skills (Continued)
Data-based Root Cause Analyses
Strategic or Intensive Services, Supports, Strategies, or Interventions
Adult-Directed Strategies for De-escalation

Session IV reviews the Emotional Control Paradigm, and then provides two videotaped examples to demonstrate how students can be taught and use the Paradigm to prevent and prepare for different classroom- or school-based stresses.

The discussion then moves to the use of a data-based, functional assessment problem-solving process for students who demonstrate persistent or significant stress-related challenges above and beyond the preventative instruction related to the Emotional Control Paradigm. The importance of linking the results of the data-based functional assessment to strategic (Tier 2) or intensive (Tier 3) services, supports, strategies, and interventions is emphasized, and specific examples of these interventions are provided.

Session IV concludes with descriptions of four specific trauma-related therapies (two of them are highlighted in the Resources provided), and an overview of specific de-escalation strategies that can be used by educators when students are experiencing an emotional or behavioral crisis.