- PMD: 4,6
- Cost: Included in Registration
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- understand the unique factors influencing mental health trends during COVID-19 for adolescents ages 12 to 17;
- explore and identify factors related to in-school learning versus remote learning and how these factors relate to mental health trends during COVID-19; and
- consider ways to adapt post pandemic mental health and suicide prevention interventions to target the areas impacted by COVID-19.
Description
Helping school psychologists identify factors that decrease suicide rates in adolescents is critical. Explore unique themes from the COVID-19 pandemic and enhance response to adolescent mental health crises.
Presenter(s)
Kaitlyn Diego, ADHD and Autism Psychological Services and Advocacy
Melissa J. Dudley, PhD, Alfred University