NASP Dialogues

This podcast will walk you through NASP's 2019 Hill Day talking points and everything from how to set up your meetings to what to do on the day of.

This discussion will delve into the impact of displacement on families and children, with a focus on immigrant and refugee youth, exploring the implementation of tiered programming with an emphasis on the concrete skills and actions associated with fostering positive youth development for long-term student success.

This podcast will focus on promoting resilience and well-being of diverse students in schools. Listeners will learn how activating culturally grounded protective factors can unlock the potential of historically marginalized learners.

Sleep problems are prevalent among children and often affect behavior and academic outcomes. Erin Ezell discusses how school psychologists can screen for sleep problems across each tier.

Adam Feinberg & Lindsay Fallon describe common research-based practices to address students’ attention-seeking and escape-maintained behaviors.

School-based motivational interviewing (SBMI) is a conversational style useful in counseling and consultation. In this podcast, listeners will learn open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries to engage students, teachers, and parents and using change talk pertaining to the adoption of academic enabling skills and behavioral strategies.

This podcast will highlight research on conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC), a family–school partnership intervention that supports children by engaging families, strengthening family–school connections, and building parent and teacher competencies.

Young children need competencies and skill sets that are formed through interactions and relationships in their earliest years. This podcast will present an evidence-based family engagement intervention for supporting children and families as they prepare to begin school.

Blending academics, behavior, family engagement, community outreach, and trauma-informed care through the MTSS-B framework has benefited Laconia schools. Using the framework, schools are able to focus on the power of relationships with students, staff, and families to support resiliency in the face of ongoing home and community risk factors.

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The Whole School Whole Community Whole Child (WSCC) model promotes integration of services to facilitate positive student outcomes across domains. Although coordinating practices makes intuitive sense, identifying best practices across social, emotional, behavioral, physical, and academic domains can be daunting, which highlights the need for practical guidance to support implementation choices.

Self-care is a non-negotiable necessity. Listeners will identify their chronic stressors and learn mindfulness and self-care strategies to protect against burnout.

The need for school-based counseling supports for LGBTQ+ youth is evident in higher rates of unhappiness, drug use, school dropout, truancy, suicide, harassment, family discord, and reduced self-referral rates. This podcast is an overview of the session designed to empower school-based mental health staff to serve as advocates for LGBTQ+ youth, provide counseling support for students in Grades 6–1...

This podcast begins with lecture and discussion identifying the dangers and opportunities of social media use during crises. The effects of texting, blogs, microblogs, and image and video sharing will be examined. The podcast also will explore smartphone applications relevant to crisis intervention and identify technology that can support crisis communications.

This podcast begins with a lecture that discusses the aspects of suicide postvention that identify it as a special form of crisis intervention. These include contagion, clusters, bereavement, and social stigma. The role of development and culture are also explored. This podcast also reviews a 14-item school suicide postvention protocol.

In the inaugural episode of Roots to Leaves, Kari Oyen, Assistant Professor of School Psychology at the University of South Dakota and Central Regional Representative on NASP’s GDPR Committee, interviews Jean Ramage, a NASP legend who once served as NASP’s President and played a key role in developing the first strategic plan. In discussing past trends, Jean looks towards the future of the profess...

Guest School Psychology Review (SPR) editors, Jessika Bottiani, Catherine Bradshaw, and Anne Gregory discuss some of the key findings in their SPR Special Issue “Closing in on Discipline Disproportionality,”. They delve into the promising approaches and critical challenges to closing racial and ethnic gaps in schools’ use of exclusionary and punitive discipline practices. They emphasize the need t...

In this episode, guests discuss the current state of social justice training, practice and research as well as future directions for the field.

This episode covers a range of school-related social justice issues occurring in diverse communities, addressing resistance to social justice advocacy efforts or practices, and engaging in challenging conversations related to privilege.

This episode focuses on Indigenous Americans and covers some of the issues indigenous communities face in the United States, the role of colonial policies in displacement and cultural erasure, and resources that can help educators best support indigenous students and families.

In this episode, podcast guests discuss important terminology, research, and aspects of school psychology practice that can assist educators in best serving LGBTQ+ students in educational settings.

This episode focuses on school disciplinary policies that result in pathways to the juvenile justice system and poor educational outcomes. Guests also discuss the role school psychologists have in promoting culturally relevant preventative and responsive school-wide practices that are sensitive to a range of external factors that impact student behavior.

Mindfulness research suggests that cultivating a mindfulness practice is related to physical and mental health benefits for all ages and backgrounds. Specifically, mindfulness programs in schools can lead to improved attention, self-regulation, and empathy in children. This skill-based workshop will demonstrate activities to teach formal and informal mindfulness practice, including games and couns...

LGBTQ youth are often classified as a homogeneous group, but the diversity among and within them is more distinct than many people realize. The need for school-based counseling supports for LGBTQ youth is evident in higher rates of unhappiness, drug use, school dropout, truancy, suicide, harassment, family discord, and reduced self-referral rates. Despite the need and demand, little is available i...