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Telehealth & Virtual Service Delivery
National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)
- Telehealth: Virtual Service Delivery Updated Recommendations
- The importance of approaching various needs through ethical, equity, and preventive lenses. In trying to mitigate long-term effects from the crisis and be well-positioned to serve when schools reopen, the NASP has provided recommendations for navigating COVID-19.
- Virtual Service Delivery in Response to COVID-19 Disruptions
- With great uncertainty and anxiety regarding what is best practice in this crisis, professionals are being asked to engage in virtual service delivery in emergency contexts responding to various situations and learning there isn’t a “one size fits all” approach. Recommendations include the importance of providing services remotely through an ethical lens.
- Additional NASP Guidance:
- When One Door Closes & Another Opens: School Psychologists Providing Telehealth Services
- Ask the Expert Webinar Series
- Legal & Ethical Considerations for Remote School Psychological Services
- Ask the Expert Webinar Series
- Sample School Psychological Services Log (Word Doc)
- Guidance for Delivery of School Psychological Telehealth Services (PDF)
- When One Door Closes & Another Opens: School Psychologists Providing Telehealth Services
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth Remote Communications During the COVID-19 Nationwide Public Health Emergency
- Explains the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) exercising, “its enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for noncompliance with regulatory requirements under the HIPPA Rules against covered health care providers in connection with good faith provision of telehealth during COVID-19 public health crisis.”
National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH), University of Maryland, School of Medicine
- COVID-19 Resources
- NCSMH wants to support you as you protect your health & the health of those around you and created an accumulation of resources & tips to use and share with your networks.
ZeroSuicide in Health & Behavioral Health Care
- Telehealth Tips: Managing Suicidal Clients During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Basic guidelines initiating contact when client may be suicidal, adaptations in conducting comprehensive suicide risk assessment, clinical management of suicidal clients, and safety planning. Includes a Patient Safety Plan Template.
UCLA Pediatric Psychology Consultation Liaison Service
- COVID-19 Tips: Building Rapport with Youth Via Telehealth (PDF)
- Tipsheet for clinicians working with youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: Ways to build rapport during telehealth sessions.
- A Practical Guide to Video Mental Health Consultation (PDF)
- Includes: setting up digitalspace, preparing client, adapting therapeutic skills, setting up workspace, and navigating common challenges. Each are further detailed in a tipsheet provided in the PDF.
Strategies for School Leaders & Crisis Teams
- Preparing for Infectious Disease Epidemics: Brief Tips for School Mental Health Professionals
- PDF Handout
- Guidance for school-employed professionals asked to help students and school staff members cope with mental health challenges generated by COVID-19. Includes
- suggestions for how school administration and the multidisciplinary crisis response team can be better prepared to respond to these events.
- NASP PREPaRE Training (School Safety & Crisis Preparedness Curriculum)
- The PREPaRE Model, Crisis Intervention, & Global Pandemic (PDF)
- A sequential, hierarchical approach to school crisis preparedness. This infographic illustrates how to apply the model when responding to stress caused by a global pandemic.
- Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis: The Importance of Care for Caregivers Tips for Administrators & Crisis Teams
- The importance of understanding what puts individuals at higher risk for traumatic stress and strategies for mediating stress. Self-care when practiced by school leaders, educators, and mental health professionals can lead to better outcomes among children and families. Special focus in chronic stress, risks & stressors for school staff, associated grief, care for the caregiver, and how to help yourself and others.
- The PREPaRE Model, Crisis Intervention, & Global Pandemic (PDF)
- PDF Handout
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
- CASEL CARES: SEL Resource During COVID-19
- CASEL CARES is a new initiative connecting the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) community with experts to identify how SEL can be most helpful in responding to COVID-19. This website continues to curate free SEL resources related to COVID-19 and offers a free, weekly webinar series every Friday, with a panel of experts speaking on various key topics.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) & Mental Health for Children & Adolescents.
(JAMA Pediatrics. Published online April 14, 2020. Golberstein E. et al.)
- This article discusses the importance of facilitating technology-enabled modalities that can expand, extend, and sometimes replace traditional face-to-face encounters, along with privacy concerns, and coordination with community mental health.
Promoting Children’s Resilience to Pandemic
Child Trends is the nation’s leading research organization focused exclusively on improving the lives of children and youth, especially those who are most vulnerable.
- COVID-19 Publications & Blog Posts
- “Ways to Promote Children’s Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic” (PDF)
- Protective factors can buffer children from harm and increase chances of positively adapting to adversities of COVID-19.
- “Resources for Supporting Children’s Emotional Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- Recommendations for promoting the emotional well-being of children in the faces of adversity as in COVID-19.
- “Ways to Promote Children’s Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic” (PDF)
Center for Childhood Resilience is dedicated to promoting access to high-quality mental health services for children and adolescents across Illinois and nationwide.
- The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Parent/Caregiver Guide to Helping Families Cope With COVID-19
- Knowledge and Preparedness can reduce parents stress and help calm likely anxieties.
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- Center for Childhood Resilience’s COVID-19 Resource Page
- Meeting children’s basic physiological and emotional needs is imperative to creating a safe environment. This website shares three key principles (creating a safe environment, building relationships and connectedness, and supporting and teaching emotion regulation).
Children’s Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis, University of Missouri – St. Louis
- YouTube Webinar: “Children’s Advocacy Services: Supporting Children in a Time of Uncertainty” (link to video)
- This video provides suggestions of how to speak with children about COVID-19 to help reduce anxiety, includes a kit of concrete strategies for adults/caregivers caring for a child during the pandemic, and way to increase resiliency and coping.
Comprehensive School Suicide Prevention: Responding to Distance Learning
- Comprehensive School Suicide Prevention in a Time of Distance Learning
- This document provides guidance and recommended suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention strategies.
Grief, Trauma, and COVID-19
American Psychological Association, 2020. Grief and COVID-19: Mourning our bygone lives.
- Grief and loss experts share what they know about the ways we’re mourning now – and how to help those who are grieving.
Helping Parents Manage Youth Anxiety
- Child Mind Institute
- Coping During COVID-19: Resources for Parents
- Child Mind Institute recognizes the stress and challenge parents are facing to balance work, childcare and self-care, all while doing their best to keep worries of their children and themselves under control. Parents can’t do this alone, which is why the Child Mind Institute created this comprehensive list of resources.
- Coping During COVID-19: Resources for Parents
Additional Agencies Responding to School-Based Mental Health Challenges Due to COVID-19
COVID-19 (“Coronavirus”) Information and Resources for Schools and School Personnel
- The US Department of Education compiled a collection of documents to support schools and school staff.
National Association of School Nurses
- Accumulation of comprehensive resources on COVID-19 such as teaching families and their students about the pandemic, talking points for school nurses, and guidance for school principals and superintendents.
National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement
- This website highlights several resources for how to navigate the pandemic while focusing students’ grief.
National Center for School Mental Health
- The University of Maryland School of Medicine has accumulated resources and tips for handling the global pandemic.