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Supporting Middle and High School Students with School Avoiding Behavior

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Description

School avoidance is not a disorder or diagnosis; rather a behavior, a symptom that indicates there is something substantial going on for a student internally and perhaps in their environment. As often is the case for mental health professionals, we are helping children and often also helping their caregivers and families resolve the underlying issues of a behavior as well as address the symptomatic behavior itself. This training will provide strategies for clinicians and school counselors to use for identifying and supporting students exhibiting school avoiding behavior and their parents/caregivers.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to enhance participants’ understanding of how to identify school-avoiding behaviors in students and to strengthen their capacity to provide effective support to both students and their parents or caregivers.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • List 3 possible underlying causes of school avoiding behavior.

  • Identify 8 strategies participants can utilize with young clients in middle and high school who are having school avoiding behavior in both school settings and in clinical treatment settings.

  • Develop a treatment plan for supporting a student who is having school avoiding behavior.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Lynn has over 20 years of experience working in the field of mental health having specialized in child and family therapies including play therapy, family systems-based therapy, and relationship counseling. She has advanced training and experience with the Gottman method, Adlerian Couples Counseling, and Imago Relationship Therapy. She has over 30 years of experience teaching mindfulness-based classes. She authored and published the book When Parents Are at War after many years of supporting children and families in high conflict divorce and custody disputes and serving as an expert witness in numerous court cases. Wonders has authored multiple academic chapters for professional texts in the field of child and family therapy and she has served as the national spokesperson for Primrose Schools and as their Early Childhood Expert and blog article author. She is co-editor and author of Nature-based Play and Expressive Therapies for Children and Families and Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families. She is the author of Mindfulness-based Play Therapy, The Midlife Self-Discovery Handbook and numerous therapeutic children’s books including the Miss Piper’s Playroom Series. Lynn is the founder and Chief Instructor of The Mindfulness-based Therapy Training Institute® and the creator of Mindfulness-based Play Therapy®. She has been providing continuing education, supervision, and consultation since 2010. She is a certified Synergetic Play Therapist®, certified AutPlay® Therapist, and a certified Pure Presence® Practitioner. Wonders is currently a doctoral student in the Humanistic Psychology department at Saybrook University where she is conducting research on the topic of mindfulness-based practices and mental health outcomes.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Sandstone Care