- PMD: 4,8
- Cost: Included in Registration
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- understand and develop community-wide interventions to support mental health of children from ethnically diverse and low-income communities;
- identify students with COVID-19 related anxiety as measured by the COVID-19 Anxiety Syndrome Scale (Nikčević & Spada, 2020); and
- recognize and describe effective protective factors that increase students’ mental health during or following a traumatic event.
Description
Understand the impact of COVID-19 on ethnically diverse and low-income high school students while learning preventive interventions for mental health protective factors related to trauma.
Presenter(s)
Dianna Batalla, PsyD, Pemberton Township Schools
Heather L. Rickmers Tacovsky, Georgian Court University
Contributor(s)
Theresa J. Brown
