#school psychologist

[wibehavioralhealth]

Benefits of Summer Testing with a School Psychologist

Summer can be a good time for testing your child with a school psychologist for several reasons:

1. Reduced Academic Demands: During the summer months, most students are on a break from school, which means they have fewer academic responsibilities and less stress. This can provide a more relaxed environment for your child to undergo testing without the added pressure of keeping up with their regular schoolwork.

2. Increased Availability: School psychologists often have more availability during the summer as they are not as occupied with their regular duties during the school year. This means you may have an easier time scheduling appointments and getting the necessary testing done in a timely manner.

3. Preparation for the Upcoming School Year: If your child is experiencing challenges or difficulties in school, undergoing testing during the summer can help provide valuable insights and information. The results of the testing can inform educational planning and interventions, allowing the school to better support your child when the new school year begins.

4. Continuity of Services: If your child is already receiving support from a school psychologist or other related services, conducting testing during the summer can help maintain continuity in their care. It ensures that their progress is monitored, and any necessary adjustments to interventions or accommodations can be made before the new school year starts.

5. Evaluation of New Concerns: If you or your child’s teachers have noticed any recent changes or concerns in their behavior, emotions, or academic performance, summer testing can help identify the underlying causes. Addressing these concerns early on can enable appropriate interventions or referrals to support your child’s overall development.

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[inspirarmas]

Inspirar Más (Inspire More)

When we want to prevent a problem, we usually focus on what we DO NOT have to do or what we have to reduce or eliminate. We focus on what we have to be or do less, but very little we focus on what we have to be or do MORE.

To prevent violence, for example, we think that we have to be less aggressive, selfish and intolerant, or we must have less hatred, less resentment, less envy, etc. While it is true that we have to have/be/do less of all that, we also have to be and do more of the good. We have to be MORE understanding, kind, compassionate, tolerant, generous, empathetic, etc.

If we focus on what we have to be/do MORE we will discover that preventing big problems is much easier than we thought. It’s just a matter of being/doing MORE.

Prevention involves not only reducing the risk factors for any problem but also increasing the protective factors. This project is focused on increasing protective factors and Inspiring MORE values ​​such as kindness, love, respect, understanding, tolerance, compassion, truth, generosity, empathy, and many others.

This project has 3 objectives:

1. Promote a culture of peace and kindness in all settings, especially in schools.

2. Encourage the development of socio-emotional skills in all people, especially in children and adolescents.

3. Inspire good educational practices that promote respect, equity, and inclusion.

I hope not only to share my knowledge but also to connect and learn from others who are interested in this topic so that I can Do More, Achieve More, and Inspire More.

[butter-that-fly]

Sometimes working with kids involves spending 15 minutes trying to make pink sparkly silly putty make fart noises with a ten year old who breaks into hysterics when it works. 😂😂😂

[silentmalu]

Reflection of the Past – Turtle – “This card represents the peacemaker, diplomat, and ally. In comparison to the heron card, which symbolizes inner peace, this card encourages peace and friendship with others. The sea turtle is the natural gardener, grazing on seagrass which house aquatic life, feeds other sea creatures, and allows space for underwater animals to breed, nest, and hide. This card…

[bootdork]

If I could kill a writer with my mind...

[hypewinter]

Jazz wasn't crazy. People might argue that burning her childhood home to the ground with her parents still inside would be an indicator of insanity. But how else was she supposed to react after coming back home from college to find out her parents had brutally killed her brother via vivisection?

Dying her hair blonde wasn't crazy either before anyone asked. Plenty of girls dyed their hair when they needed a change. Besides, she could never live with herself if she kept the same hair color as that vile woman.

Admittedly Jazz would have to secede moving to Gotham had been a little crazy but it was the perfect place to start fresh and blend in despite her "quirks". She had even picked out a nice new identity for herself.

Clearly Jazz was not crazy as she had managed to land a job at Arkham Asylum as a psychiatrist. If she were really insane would they have ever hired her? No they wouldn't have.

Jazz was not crazy. She was very much sane. Just like her precious Mr. J.

[triglycercule]

mtt therapy moment except dust keeps taking breaks to talk to phantom papyrus and horror just wants this to hurry up so it can get to his turn because he couldn't give two shits about dust and killer's trauma and killer physically cannot discuss his issues and just starts zoning out while crying for some reason during it

and i'm the therapist listening to all of this writing down notes fervently because ITS CANON MATERIAL CANON I NEED TO GET THE CANON MATERIAL

[trracstudy]

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[helyeahmangocheese]

realtalk about casting: annabeth mattered SO. MUCH. to me as a kid, and that was when I only identified with her as another bright, fiesty, amibitious girl with ADHD (something that manifests differently for us with our gender and how we present in things like our interests, school, etc). and to see her now as an actual adult in architecture school (still with ADHD in an ableist af industry) and realizing that the discrimination she'd face as a woc resembles mine so much more now... that's so powerful and it's such a gift, and I hope kids like me are watching too

[vhstown]

love the idea of spider sense / powers being messed up cause of psychological factors

im pretty sure peter parker "lost" his abilities cause of a mental block before but im also thinking about that panic attack miles had in the halloween short and how his spider sense went off when it was really just in his head. like there's a distinct link between anxiety and fight or flight and survival and i thought that wld be cool to explore

psychosomatic experiences so interesting to me and i just need a spider person to feel like they're going crazy maybe just a little bit

[chokulit]

with all the posts going around about senshi teaching people how to cook better its kinda further proof to me that adults need their own version of like. mr rogers barney blues clues. those educational shows. to guide them and teach them stuff.

[liketwoswansinbalance]

Rafal the Unethical Psychologist - Part 3

HOW-TO: The Running of an Evil School

Disclaimer: Please Do Not Try This At Home.

Rafal has a habit of following studies done by other unethical psychologists who've earned such infamy that all Never pedagogy is driven by them. There are several few who've been elevated to the status of household names, known for their dastardly methods. All the Evil professors recognize them and their foremost publications at Rafal's behest.

Today, Sophie read from one of the academic journals he subscribes to.

Sophie: A new publication by an accredited Woods psychologist called Skinner has led me to believe we've been running our School all wrong these past few years! He's famed for his work in behaviorism in the field of education!

Rafal: Let me guess. Is he an Ever psychologist? Evers have such delicate, sensitive psyches. Even the slightest bit of trauma sets them off for years.

Sophie: By that name, he sounds like a Never. Besides, I just read that punishment only teaches students to avoid punishment. They become better at evading it by lying, so I don't think it's effective.

Rafal: But what we've done has been working, hasn't it? We've had successful alumni, aside from the 200-year curse.

Sophie: I suppose you could be right.

Rafal: Anyway, we don't want to eliminate or extinguish problematic behaviors. That may hold true for Evers, but for Nevers, undesirable consequences reinforce exactly what we are trying to teach. Evil is our aim, is it not?

We punish them so they become better liars and perpetrators. So they are stealthier and more cautious, more clever in their cheating.

We don't want pro-social behaviors from them! We don't want to elicit healthy, emotional regulation from them! That's the point, my love.

For a student to work hard and succeed, or for a student to cheat and succeed—there is little difference here at our School because our professors design classes to be cheating-proof, against traditional methods. Thus, succeeding by cheating already innately requires a student to possess some proficient level of stealthiness, of cleverness, of guile.

And, when you're a Never in the Woods, survival depends on results, not the means you use. That is our advantage over the Evers. They fuss about how they go about doing things and who they impact, but to Nevers—it doesn't matter.

Simply stated, they don't care about the unintended ramifications of their actions, as they rightly should, to best serve themselves and their endings.

They will do anything to emerge victorious, and we should pride ourselves on that fact, on their resourcefulness and the desperation that drives the darkest hearts.

Sophie: That's all well and good, darling. I know that already. You and your monologues. Same old, same old. [She feigns a yawn.] On an unrelated note, our School desperately needs a makeover. The Nevers' faces are positively scabrous, and I have half a mind to mandate facials, if they resist!

[silentmalu]

The Drop...

The crash… The drop… The shut off…shut down…burn out… No more…. Stop… When your brain finally hits the kill switch and tells you… You’re done… Those who have gone through this call it by various names depending on how they feel, or the research they have done, or what their community calls it, or just how they identify with it the most. Many groups experience this. Individuals can…

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

Art Project: The Distortion

I've finally (actually I still have a month but I was excited) finished my art project! We were supposed to create a journey in whatever form we wanted, using several different materials/art forms and such. Being neck-deep into TMA and obsessed with Michael I sent two people down into the Distortion (artistic liberties have been taken).

(The little note in the letter slot reads "There's a yellow door in my room".)

Anyway! I'm really super proud of this. My literal blood and tears went into this, though the latter is because of listening to TMA meanwhile probably.

Written notes will be in a reblog because this is. Long.

And here's some stuff I used because that's a shit-ton of varied materials and I'm proud of it ok:

cardboard and paper (obviously)

acrylics

watercolours

photography

vinyl printing (from an earlier art project actually)

text markers and gel pens

toothpicks and hot glue for Michael's 3D hand

so much hot glue

a string of lights

mirrors

fire to add some extra to the notes

I'm just. Suuuuuper happy with how this turned out! It was so much fun. And it probably saved me from breaking down after the TMA finale.

[sillycourtjester]

I want to be so many things at once like i want to be a historian and an author and an artist and a poet and a journalist and an activist and a psychologist and instead i'm in the fucking american public high school system