What a Difference a School Nurse Can Make! A Tourette Syndrome Guide for School Nurses

Presenter: Graham Hartke, Psy.D. View the webinar’s corresponding slides here View the Webinar  School Nurses play an essential and invaluable role in the lives of children with and their families. Serving as onsite medical practitioners, counselors, and mediators between school personnel, health professionals and families, school nurses are in a

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Grief and Loss: Handling Expectations

Presenter: Jesse Bassett, MDiv View the webinar’s corresponding slides here View the Webinar  Grief is a topic most would like to avoid, as it often makes us feel uncomfortable and we find ourselves feeling awkward while trying to say and do the right things for our co-workers and friends. But,

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Parent Power: 5 Parenting Strategies to Improve Life at Home

Presenter: Justin R. Misurell, PhD View the webinar’s corresponding slides here View the Webinar Parents often struggle to manage their children’s difficult behaviors. Disobedience, back-talking, temper tantrums, fighting with siblings and refusing to go to school are common problems that can lead to frustration, aggravation and feelings of disempowerment among parents.

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Solving the Puzzle: Creating a Plan for Success through Psychological and Educational Assessment

Presenter: Lisa Ahern, PhD View the webinar’s corresponding slides here        View the webinar When students are struggling in school, teachers and parents often wonder what might be causing the problem and what they could be doing to help. With over 15 years of assessment experience in school,

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Game-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Presenter: Justin R. Misurell, PhD View the webinar’s corresponding slide presentation here View this webinar Game-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (GB-CBT) was originally developed to make the therapeutic process more palatable for children and their families who have been impacted by abuse and trauma and has since been expanded to address a wide variety

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Update on Current Medications for TS and Associated Disorders

Presenter: Dr. Roger Kurlan View the webinar’s corresponding slide presentation here View this webinar Dr. Kurlan discusses the medications that are commonly prescribed, those prescribed in the past and still used today as well as medications new to the market.

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Demystifying DSM 5 Diagnosis: What parents and educators should know

Presenter: Dr. Colleen Martinez View the webinar’s corresponding slide presentation here View this webinar Dr. Martinez discusses the history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and gives an overview of changes in the most recent version, the DSM 5. She discusses how clinicians use the DSM 5 to

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Life Cycle of Tics

Presenter: Dr. Michael Rubenstein View the webinar’s corresponding slide presentation here View this webinar This webinar addresses the chronology, type, and development of tics, presented by a neurologist who not only treats tics but lives with them. The intrinsic relationship between the associated behavioral manifestations of attention deficit and obsessive-compulsive disorder is

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Sibling Issues

Presenter: Dr. Graham Hartke View the webinar’s corresponding slide presentation here View this webinar > Siblings of special needs children face unique challenges that are often overshadowed by other family needs. They must navigate issues of sharing, fairness, stress, helping out, and understanding. Dr. Hartke speaks about the challenges these siblings and

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Disclosure: How and when to tell the rest of your world

Presenter: Dr. Rob Zambrano View the webinar’s corresponding slide presentation here View this webinar > We’ve tackled explaining to your child that he/she has a mental health condition. You’ve explained it to the family. Now, do we tell the rest of the world? Who should know? How do we tell them?

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