Category: Family
Disastershock: Helping Our Families Deal With Traumatic Times (SSWN Open Access 2020)
Disasters have a way of making everyone feel tense and it is often hard to calm oneself. Disastershock: How to Cope with the Emotional Stress of a Major Disaster is a free book that may be helpful in lowering your stress and the stress experienced by your children and other family members. Disastershock contains 24 different practical stress-reduction exercises for parents, adults, and children. It differs from many other disaster coping materials in that the exercises are described in a clear, step by step fashion that makes implementing them easy. The majority of the exercises are based on extensive research demonstrating their effectiveness in reducing strong stress.
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Parent Support in an Early Childhood Specialty School
My name is Gabriela Ibarra Ramirez and I am a school social worker with Chicago Public Schools. I have spent this academic year implementing my school change project as part of my participation in the School Mental Health Advanced Practice Program at Loyola University-Chicago. This project was born out of a desire to better support parents of children with identified special needs.
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LunchTime LiveChat During the COVID-19 Crisis: Chat Transcript from April 1 w/Tonya Hernandez, LCSW (Clark County School Social Work Liaison)
This was the first of our special LunchTime LiveChats During the COVID-19 Crisis, with SMHAPP student and SSW Liaison for Clark County (NV) Tonya Hernandez stepping in as my co-host. We discussed her recent webinar on SSWNetwork, “Providing School Mental Health Supports Online: Loyola SMHAPP Students Taking The Lead,” which as of this writing has been viewed on our SSWN YouTube channel over 4,300 times. We will be having our LunchTime LiveChats over on our SSWNetwork from 11-Noon Monday, Wed., & Friday until the crisis is over. Hope to see you on a future chat!
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Reducing our “Professional Distancing:” SSWNetwork COVID-19 Chat Transcript from March 21
A big thanks to all the fantastic school clinicians who joined me today for this LiveChat–we’ll be back at the same time next Saturday 3/28, and we’ll have plenty of information, resources, and community activities to share with you between now and then as well, here at SSWNetwork and in partnership with SSWAA.
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How Can We BEST Support Families of Students With Special Needs?: SSWNetwork Forum
Starting this week, we will focus on the stressors our parents experience with trying to take care of their children with special needs. First, we will ask you to answer this question over at SSWNetwork: Based on the paragraph excerpt above, how does having a child with a disability impact the parents at your school?
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A Call to Action from SSWAA: School Social Workers Stand Up for Migrant Children’s Human Rights
Editor’s Note: Here at SSWN, we’re proud to post this statement from Dr. Leticia...
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SEL for English Learners: Part 3 (A SSW Perspective)
Image by pexels.com Introduction: The School Social Worker Perspective on Providing SEL for...
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SEL for English Learners- Part 2: A Teacher’s Perspective
I (Nicholas Metcalf) teach English Learners (EL) in my health classes regularly, and I...
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