Second Step

Second Step provides instruction in social and emotional learning with units on skills for learning, empathy, emotion management, friendship skills, and problem solving. The program contains separate sets of lessons for use in kindergarten through fifth grade implemented in 22 to 28 weeks each year. These lessons are implemented by the School Counselor and Classroom Teachers and are offered to all Springhurst Students. 

The Zones of Regulation

Self-regulation is something everyone continually works on whether or not we are cognizant of it.  We all encounter trying circumstances that test our limits from time to time.  If we are able to recognize when we are becoming less regulated, we are able to do something about it to manage our feelings and get ourselves to a healthy place.  This comes naturally for some, but for others it is a skill that needs to be taught and practiced. This is the goal of The Zones of Regulation (or Zones for short).  

Social Thinking

Strategies to Build Social Competencies

With the Social Thinking Methodology, you gain evidence-based strategies to help people age 4 through adult improve their social competencies, including:

• Self-regulation

• Social-emotional learning

• Executive functioning

• Perspective taking

• Social problem solving

Coping Cat

“Coping Cat” is a cognitive behavioral treatment for children ages 8-14. This program is specifically designed for children and adolescents dealing with anxiety who may have a diagnosis of: generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, or separation anxiety disorder. Treatment includes education, coping skills training, and gradual exposure to anxiety inducing scenarios, as well as homework assignments. The Coping Cat curriculum helps children and adolescents learn to recognize and analyze anxious feelings and develop strategies to cope with anxiety-provoking situations.

There are four components to Coping Cat:

• Recognizing anxious feelings and physical reactions to anxiety

• Clarifying thoughts and feelings in anxious situations

• Developing a coping plan

• Evaluating performance and giving self-reinforcement

DBT for Children

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, is a treatment designed to help people struggling with behavioral and emotional challenges as a result of trauma or chronic stress. DBT Skills in Schools is a program specifically designed to teach emotional and behavioral management to children in a school setting. There are four primary goals of DBT that are proven to help children and Adolescents rethink their behavior and improve their ability to cope with stress. 

The four Primary Goals of the DBT Skills in Schools program are:

• mindfulness 

• improved interpersonal relationships 

• emotional regulation 

• distress tolerance.  

* CBC of Westchester provides continual training, consultation and oversight of our school based DBT program and has adopted the adolescent manual to meet the needs of upper elementary school children.