Description

Completely revised and updated, the third edition of this PREPaRE workshop develops the knowledge and skill required to provide immediate mental health crisis interventions to the students, staff, and school community members who have been simultaneously exposed to an acute traumatic stressor. The knowledge and skills developed within this session also help to build a bridge to the psychotherapeutic and trauma-informed mental health response sometimes required to address challenges associated with trauma exposure.

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants:

• report reduced anxiety and fear associated with the provision of school mental health crisis interventions,
• report increased knowledge and confidence associated with the provision of school mental health crisis interventions,
• identify variables that help to estimate the number of individuals traumatized by a crisis,
• recognize the difference between common crisis reactions and mental illness,
• identify the elements of school crisis preparedness specified by the PREPaRE acronym,
• recognize risk factors that predict psychological trauma.