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Intervention Coaching - New Service

I am introducing a new service to schools in your area called Intervention Coaching.  This service allows your school to expand the scope of interventions and behavior management strategies by adding an experienced mental health clinician to your staff for a minimal hourly fee most school budgets can afford.

The coaching process is practical, time and energy saving, and most of all, facilitates success for both the teacher and the student.  It is available on an hourly basis and can be done via phone or e-mail after an initial meeting and assessment is completed.  The coaching sessions usually last one hour and may require up to 2-3 follow-up sessions.  The teacher leaves the session with concrete, do-it-tomorrow strategies designed to help both the teacher and the student reduce stress and become more successful.

Over the past fifteen years I have seen an increasing number of children with emotional and mental health disorders struggling to cope in the regular classroom.  Many teachers are frustrated and distressed about how to help these students.  If you have such students, please give me a call at (770) 631-8264 or on my cell phone (770) 595-7104.  I will be happy to discuss Intervention Coaching for you or your staff.  For a minimal investment of time and money, you can provide your staff the kind of support that can make a big difference.

Intervention Coaching includes one or more of the following services / benefits:

·     An informal assessment for emotional developmental deficits that seriously impact classroom behavior.

·    Development of a workable behavior management plan based on the child’s emotional, developmental age and/or on the child’s mental health diagnosis or limitations.

·    Identify interventions or discipline strategies that will escalate dysfunctional behavior and substitute therapeutic interventions that correct behavior or increase academic success.

·    Prevent unnecessary special education designations by providing workable interventions before full scale testing is required or completed.

·    Successfully decrease or eliminate explosive outbursts or melt downs in children with anger issues.

·    Provide on-line support to individual teachers dealing with emotionally disturbed children.

·    Get help when all else has failed and one student is dominating the full time attention of a teacher or administrator.

·    Step-by-step coaching for improving the functioning of low performing teachers.