NASP Home > NASP Conventions > Summer Conferences > NASP 2009 Summer Conference - Washington > Concurrent Breakout Sessions
2009 NASP Summer Conference - Washington, DC
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Tuesday afternoon, repeated Wednesday morning—3 hours
each)
Tuesday, July 14, 1:30–4:45 p.m. and Wednesday, July 15, 8:30–11:45 a.m.
Ethical Principles for School Psychologists: A
Problem-Solving Approach
Barbara Bole Williams, PhD, NCSP, Rowan University,
Glassboro, NJ; Leigh D. Armistead, EdD, NCSP,
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
A problem-solving approach can be applied to ethical and
legal issues in work settings, with the goal of avoiding ethical violations and
protecting the rights and welfare of children and advocating for their best
interests. Participants will learn:
- skills
and strategies to use a problem-solving model to effectively interpret
ethical principles in school psychology
- examples
of behaviors that would comply with standards of appropriate professional
conduct, using case studies
Instruction strategies will include lecture, guided
discussion, and practice in applying the problem-solving model. Participants
will earn 3 CPD credits toward fulfilling the ethics and professional practice
requirements for NCSP renewal.
Responding to Self-Injurious Students: Prevention and
Intervention Strategies for School Psychologists
Richard A. Lieberman, NCSP,
Los
Angeles Unified
School
District,
CA
Self-injury (SI) is a complex variety of behaviors separate
and distinct from suicide that fulfills a multitude of needs in children and
adolescents. There is alarming evidence that an increasing number of adolescents
are exhibiting a spectrum of impulsive self-injurious behaviors, cutting and
burning in particular. The referrals of these students present significant
challenges to school mental health personnel. Participants will learn:
- the interaction between cognitive, affective,
behavioral, environmental, biological, and psychological dimensions in the
etiology of SI youth
- how to create effective treatment plans
- school prevention and intervention strategies,
such as training of staff, working within crisis teams, utilizing no harm
agreements and responding to contagion on campus.
Helping Children and Adolescents Manage Anger
Constructively: Practical Strategies for School Psychologists
Fredric Provenzano, PhD, NCSP,
University of
Washington,
Seattle
Although it is both an inevitable and a normal life
experience, anger can lead to difficult negative outcomes for the angry person,
as well as for others. Participants will learn specific procedures for managing
anger that include:
- identifying and monitoring anger levels
- reducing the explosive tension of the anger
- employing a problem solving plan for replacing
the dysfunctional and potentially harmful reactions with safe and effective
action plans
- verbal and nonverbal techniques
- a group format appropriate for intermediate and
middle school students that is easily adaptable for students from second grade
through high school and for use with families, as well.
Legal Combat Rules for the Practice of School Psychology:
2009 Update
John Comegno II, Esq., Comegno Law Group,
Moorestown,
NJ
Given the myriad of laws and regulations that affect school
psychologists, the legal implications can be staggering and, at times,
overwhelming. Participants will learn:
- concrete and practical suggestions (stemming
from this nationally renowned legal expert’s “war stories”)
- recent special education litigation and how to
limit both personal and institutional risk by avoiding legal exposure while
still focusing on the best interests of students
- current trends in special education law
- recent relevant court decisions
- latest changes to the Americans with
Disabilities Act and he impact those changes have on the eligibility for
Section 504 Plans within public schools