WEBINAR: An Efficient and Effective Approach for Assessing, Engaging & Triaging in School Mental Health
WHEN: Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 9:00 – 10:30am PST
SESSION DESCRIPTION:
This session will provide a brief overview of the challenges and opportunities provided in delivering school-based mental health. In efforts to leverage those opportunities, the presenter will teach useful approaches and evidenced-based strategies for assessing, engaging, and triaging mental health services in schools. This will include education on standardized assessments, a brief functional assessment, and a top problems assessment; teaching an initial skill for getting started, and, if treated in school, the importance of identifying a treatment target and monitoring progress.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants will be able to:
- Review the importance of school-based mental health services.
- Learn an approach for assessing, engaging, and triaging in school.
- Learn how to administer and provide feedback using standardized assessments.
- Learn how to create a top problems list following a brief informal assessment.
- Review the importance of identifying treatment targets/goals and monitoring progress.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: School-based health center providers, adolescent health providers, and those serving adolescents/youth in schools, including school staff (e.g., school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, school nurses)
PRESENTER:
Kristy Ludwig, PhD., EdM., LCP. Dr. Ludwig is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is affiliated with the SMART Center at the University of Washington where her work has focused on school-based mental health research and training. She provides clinical consultation and training for school-based mental health providers across the country and Canada. Prior to becoming a psychologist, Dr. Ludwig was a high school teacher and school counselor in the Boston Public Schools.