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STUDENT TRAUMAS, Complex Traumas, CERT 10/2020 Cohort 11, Kenneth Rabalais…

- - - - Sudden loss of interest in class
      - Detachment or retreating socially
      - Inability to control emotions
      - Depression
      - Inability to focus
    - - Utilize School resources
        
        Involve guidance counselor
        
        Social Emotional Learning
        
        Peer discussion group
        
        Social Emotional Learning
        
        Allow student room/space to express their grief
        
        Social Emotional Learning
        
        Reach out to parents/guardians to discuss ways to help the student process their feelings
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsYL4PC0hyk&ab_channel=watchwellcast
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYWlCGbbDGI&ab_channel=TEDxTalks
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F39rS5odFx4&ab_channel=RealRapWithReynolds
        
        Resources
        
        http://petersplaceonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/resources_27_2723462710.pdf
        
        https://www.schoolcounselor.org/asca/media/asca/ASCAU/Grief-Loss-Specialist/GrievingStudents.pdf
      - IEP
        
        Design student specific coursework to help them grieve and work through the trauma
  - - - crying on arrival in school
      - Silence (otherwise engaged student)
      - unnatural fear of going home / coming to school
      - nightmares, bad sleep
    - - help to identify offender
      - do all in the schools power to improve the security of the students school way
      - offer psychological help for the student
      - fast response required:
        treatment in the acute phase of trauma
      - Cognitive behavioral therapy
        Cognitive behavioral therapy is a psycho-social intervention that aims to improve mental health. CBT focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems.
  - - - fear
      - feelings of inadequacy
      - shame
      - PTSD
    - - speak with a therapist
      - medication
      - confiding in a friend
      - personal research into mindfulness techniques to learn to conquer one's fears
- - - - Responses
        
        1. Utilizing school counseling resources: regular check-ins with the school counselor
        
        Referral to external therapists for family counseling and conflict management
        
        Social Emotional Learning: aim to help the student develop self-awareness and social awareness.
        
        Resource for teachers to help students through divorce trauma
        
        Social Emotional Learning: aim to help the student understand various perspectives and feelings of others.
        
        5. Social Emotional Learning: aim to help the student understand their circle of control (which situations they can/cannot control.
        
        Click here for a story that helps students through divorce trauma
      - Crying easily during class or social interactions
      - Exhaustion/fatigue
      - Irritability, aggression, anxiety (could be from changing houses frequently)
      - Complaints of physical pain or illness
      - Inability to concentrate
      - Absences from school
  - - - Poor academic performance
      - School avoidance, including missing or dropping out of school
      - Anger or frustration
      - Loneliness and isolation
      - Stress, anxiety, and depression
      - Feelings of rejection, or poor self-esteem
      - Changes in sleep and eating patterns
      - Health complaints
      - Poor relational skills
      - Suicidal or homicidal ideas or actions
      - Eating disorders
      - Self-injury
      - Separation anxiety
    - - Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT): This is a structured psychotherapeutic approach that assists clients in identifying the events, situations, or objects that often trigger the unwanted symptoms.
      - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR): EMDR integrates rapid and rhythmic eye movements to stimulate the brain in conjunction with a guided, safe recollection of trauma. This process harnesses the negative emotions caused by the trauma and helps the person decrease their reactivity and distress to such memories
      - Mindfulness training and meditation.
      - Psychoeducation (resources and education about the effects of bullying).
      - Living in a safe and supportive environment.
      - https://youtu.be/YVKLPtm5XMY
  - - - Create a positive, relaxing environment
      - Using Character Strengths: use stories for the student to recognize their own strengths
      - Mindfulness training; use meditation time or yoga practice
      - Students can practice resilience skills through role plays that help them to act out skills such as setting boundaries and verbalizing their feelings, all while in the safety of a classroom. Literature, poetry, and song lyrics can help students identify examples of resilient thinking
      - Reach out to school counselor for additional support
      - Create daily end-of-day routine for the students to share something positive that happened today
    - - Crying over small occurrences
      - Hitting other students
      - Tantrums
      - Name Calling
      - Yelling/Screaming
      - Isolated; few friends
- - - - 3. Social Emotional Learning
        Help to build empathy and personal resilience. This can be followed by implementing more lessons that require hand use for touch
      - 2. Individualized Education Program
        Give student a special program that would be easier to follow. Program should focus on listening and speaking with the use of technology. Refer student to paraprofessional services that can provide a special care during school hours
      - 5. Social Emotional Learning
        Helping the student develop self-awareness and interpersonal skills. This will help the student cope with everyday challenges.
      - 1. Social Emotional Learning
        Develop emotional and cognitive self-awareness/management. Work on empathy and compassion.
      - 4. Social Emotional Learning
        Help the student build patience via constant exchanges. Implement lessons that mention personal resilience through physical adversities.
      - Use of braille writers so students can create their own documents during the classrom.
    - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi3dH_QnnWQ
- - - - Specialized Services: Refer student to cognitive behavior therapy and other therapy led only by professionals (if available in school and/or community). Especially if student is dealing with PTSD.
      - Social Emotional Learning: Aim at building resilience in the face of adversity. Focus on building self-awareness and self-regulation skills. Think of ways that allow students to express their feelings through speaking, writing, or activity. Allow them to feel what they need to feel and give them ways to feel confident and strong.
      - Social Emotional Learning: Implement teacher led mindfulness activites, stress management activities, and function games (e.g. social charades).
      - Create IEP For Student: If student has mental illness, provide accommodations for that student (i.e. give student more time on tests and assignments, give student extra support before and after school).
      - Community and Positive Parenting Programs: Harness healthy and positive parent involvement. Encourage student involvement in the community (i.e. sports program, music, art, theatre, etc.).
      - Social Emotional Learning:Teach relationship skills whenever the opportunity arises. Teach gratitude and give student oral and written affirmations; encourage students family members, and classmates to do so as well.
      - Safe Guarding Refugee Children in the classroom - Link
- - - - Social Emotional Learning: Support by building a relationship with the student
      - Educate to show compassion
      - Social Emotional Learning: Being sensitive and responsive to feelings they may be feeling
      - Teacher leading by example and being the friend one may need.
      - Social Emotional Learning: Stay present in the moment for the child
      - Social Emotional Learning: Notice when the child is feeling discomfort and be there.
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDt8Yvv3yJM&feature=emb_logo
- - - - Coping with transition
      - Listen and validate the feelings of grief. This will help them move forward.
      - Counselling services
      - Support by building a relationship
      - Get help from SEN department
      - https://youtu.be/9Vc6nEgZOs8
      - References
        
        TCK and transitional trauma exploring the course of depression and anxiety in tck
        
        The trouble with TCK
        
        The ripple effect TCKs and those they have leave behind
- - - - Try to refer the student to the school counselor, someone who is authorized to help, or refer to group therapy with others who have experienced the same thing so that the child can feel that they are not alone
      - Try to understand that the student might not be willing to open up to any adult or teacher including yourself
      - Supporting the child to feel safe and in control of what happens to them,
      - Creating a supporting and engaging environment
      - Being available to the child and being reliable in case of a cry for help
      - Being that positive adult role model in their life that can be trusted