SEL Archive

Dealing with Current Events

• Resources for Educators, Families to Discuss the Events in Israel and Gaza with Students - San Diego County Office of Education

• Helping Children Cope With Frightening News - Child Mind Institute

• How to Talk to Kids About School Shootings (includes guidance helpful for any shooting) - Child Mind Institute

• Multilingual Resources - Child Mind Institute

• How to Talk to Kids About School Shootings  - Child Mind Institute

• 3 Sentences That Can Help Your Kids Process Upsetting Events - Scary Mommy

• When Bad Things Happen - Harvard Graduate School of Education

• Talking to children about terrorist attacks and school and community shootings in the news - National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement

• Talking to Kids About Racism and Violence - Child Mind Institute

• Helping Kids Understand the Riots at the Capitol - Child Mind Institute

• Bad things happen. What are we to do as parents? - AT Parenting Survival

• When Bad Things Happen - Harvard Graduate School of Education

3 Sentences That Can Help Your Kids Process Upsetting Events - ScaryMommy

General Mental Health

• • When Your Teen is Being Left Out - 10 Tips to Soothe the Sting - Raising Teens Today

  • Mental Health and Wellness Resources for
    Young Adults - NJ's COVID-19 Information Hub

  • Sleep Anxiety: What It Is and How to Reduce It - Link for Counselors

  • How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health  - Common Sense Media

  • Parenting Tweens:  Everything You Should Know - Child Mind Institute

  • How to Help Kids Who Are Too Hard on Themselves - Child Mind Institute

  • How to Change Negative Thinking Patterns - Child Mind Institute

  • How to Talk with Kids about Traumatic Events - Rutgers University

  • It’s Official: High Achieving Students Designated “At Risk” - Your Teen

  • Teaching Kids Media Smarts During Breaking News - Common Sense Media

  • Self Care for Kids: Build Healthy Habits - Social Emotional Workshop

  • Psychological Tips For Children And Adolescents’ Emotions - University of Verona

  • 5 Signs of Screen Overload -- and How to Handle Them - Common Sense Media

  • When Kids Refuse to Go to School - Child Mind Institute

  • Tips for Communicating With Your Teen - Child Mind Institute

Parenting Cue Cards

• Do you ever struggle with what to do in tough parenting situations?  GreatSchools.org worked with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence to bring you the answers you need.

Social Emotional Developmental Checklists For Kids and Teens

From Common Sense Media

Ages 5-6  *  Ages 7-8  *  Ages 9-10

Ages 11-13  *  Ages 14-16  *  Ages 16-18

SEL

• • The Adulting 101 Syllabus: 20 Life Skills I’m Teaching My Teens - Grown & Flown

  • Teaching Kids About Boundaries - Child Mind Institute

  • Why Kids Lie and What Parents Can Do About It - Child Mind Institute

  • How to Help Kids Deal with Embarrassment - Child Mind Institute

  • SEL Guidelines and Resources for Parents and Caregivers - CASEL

  • Teaching Kids About Boundaries - Child Mind Institute

  • Teaching Kids How to Deal with Conflict - Child Mind Institute

  • Helping Kids Make Decisions - Child Mind Institute

  • A Parent's Resource Guide to Social and Emotional Learning - Edutopia

  • 4 Social/Emotional Skills You Can Easily Practice With Teens - Nobel Coaching

  • Let’s Talk SEL: Parents, This Is for You! - Committee for Children

Anxiety Articles from the Child Mind Institute

• What to Do (and Not Do) When Children Are Anxious

• What Is Social Anxiety? / Tips for Managing Social Anxiety

• Agoraphobia in Children 

• Fear of Vomiting 

• What is Separation Anxiety? 

• Tips for Calming Anxious Kids

• Tips for Beating Test Anxiety

• Quick Facts on Somatic Symptom Disorder

• When Kids Refuse to Go to School

Support for Stressed Parents from the Child Mind Institute

• Be Kind to Yourself - How self-compassion can help parents manage anxiety

• How Mindfulness Can Help Caregivers - Techniques and strategies to reduce stress.

• Preventing Parent Burnout - Meeting the emotional challenges of children with mental health issues.

How to Avoid Passing Anxiety on to Your Kids - Help yourself, and them, by learning techniques to manage stress in a healthy way.

Miscellaneous

• How to Support Kids Who Are Questioning [Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation] - Child Mind Institute

• When Kids Refuse to Go to School - Child Mind Institute

• Tips for Communicating With Your Teen - Child Mind Institute

• TikTok Challenges Are Getting Worse–Here’s How to Talk to Your Kids - Teens & Tweens

Covid-Specific

• • Healthy Family Relationships and Mental Health - IndieFlix

  • Tips for Reducing Isolation - Good Grief

  • Learning Tools (Resources from trusted organizations to help you help your child with math, reading and life-skills, K-12) - Learning Heroes

  • How to Help Your Kids Handle Disappointment - Child Mind Institute

  • How to Ask What Kids Are Feeling - Child Mind Institute

  • Signs of Depression During the Pandemic - Child Mind Institute

  • Helping Children Cope With Changes Resulting From COVID-19 - National Association of School Psychologists

  • Why teens may never be the same after the pandemic - CNN

  • That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Harvard Business Review

  • Care for Your Coronavirus Anxiety - Shine

  • Coronavirus:  How to Protect Your Mental Health - BBC News

  • How to make face masks more comfortable for kids - Children’s Minnesota

  • Families can support kids’ mental health whether they’re learning remotely or at school – here’s how  - The Conversation

Managing Threat in an Age of Anxiety
February 24, 2021 presentation sponsored by the Consortium of NP, Summit, Chatham, Millburn, and Berkeley Heights

Raising Healthy Kids
January 25, 2021 presentation for NPSD families & staff by George Scott, EdS, LMFT

When Alcohol, Teens and COVID Intersect
October 29, 2020 presentation sponsored by the Consortium of NP, Summit, Chatham, Millburn, and Berkeley Heights

Grief & Loss During the Pandemic
September 23, 2020 presentation for the SAC Consortium by Lisa Athan, M.A.

Healing From Sudden Loss
September 21, 2020 presentation for NPSD families & staff by George Scott, EdS, LMFT

Preparing Children for a Different School World
August 12, 2020 presentation for NPSD parents & staff by George Scott, EdS, LMFT