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Mental Roadblocksto
Learning
Mental Roadblocksto
Learning
Presenters
Carol Fall-Kyrimes, L.S.W.
Jan Richard Garda, B.S., M.Ed.
The innate relationshipThe innate relationshipMental health & educationMental health & education
Cognitive DevelopmentCognitive Development 1340 A.D. 1340 A.D.
AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM
150 murders/100,000150 murders/100,000
NO GENETICNO GENETIC CHANGECHANGE
1540 A.D.1540 A.D. AMSTERDAMAMSTERDAM
5 murders/ 100,0005 murders/ 100,000
NO GENETICNO GENETIC CHANGECHANGE
Answer These Questions
• Sight
1) What color is their hair?
2) What color are their eyes?
3) Describe their clothes in detail?
4) Where they wearing jewelry?
If so, describe it in detail!
Hearing1) Describe their voice?
2) Was the speech fast, slow, etc.?
3) Do they have an accent?
4) Were there any oddities in their speech
patterns?
Smell
1) Were they wearing any perfumes or cologne?
2) Do they smoke?
3) Did their clothing contain other smells?
4) Have they just had a meal? If so, what
was on the menu?
Questions Intuitive
• Educator Describe their classroom atmosphere?
• Parent Describe their home/family atmosphere?
Not Everyone Observes the Same Thing!
What the parent said
the child needed!
Not Everyone Observes the Same Thing!
What the teacher thought the child
needed!
NOT EVERYONE…
How the other students saw the
child!
Not Everyone…
How the IEP read!
Not Everyone…
How the school interpreted the IEP!
Not Everyone…
What the CHILD really
needed!
What happened to the brain!
Categories1) Born
2) Following birth (physical/emotional)
1) Both nature and nurture
2) We have NO idea
AT BIRTH
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Autistic Disorders Rhett’s
Asbergers Disintegrative
• Bipolar-usually after 18 yrs.
• Schizophrenia-usually after 18 yrs.
• In vetro-drug use
Following Birth
• Accidents
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Attachment Disorder
• Personality Disorders
• Adjustment Disorders
Probable Nature & Nurture
1) Anxiety Disorders
2) Oppositional Defiant Disorder
3) Conduct Disorders
4) Depression
We Aren’t Sure!
• Intermittent Explosive Disorder
• Personality Disorders
• Serial Killers
• Columbine
The Basics!Is there a problem?
• Age
• Intelligence
• Culture
• Life Events
• How did it begin?
• Intensity and Frequency
Intensity and FrequencyProblems on Both Sides of the Continuum
Almost Never Almost Always
Flat Reaction Intense Reaction
REFERRAL
• NO Child Left Behind
• Child Find under IDEA, ADA,and Sect 504
• Teacher Liability/Responsibility
What did you know?
When did you know it?
What did you do about it?
• Moral responsibility
BEHAVIOR
INVOLUNTARY
VOLUNTARY
MIXES
Environment and behavior almost always interact!
GENERAL PRINCIPALS of CHANGE
• Acknowledge the difficulty of changing behaviors• Control showing your emotions• Praise and consequences• Chose to ignore selected behaviors• Make the environment safe• Substitute a more acceptable behavior• Give information• Establish contracts for change• Ask permission to help• Repeat and repeat ( four words or less )
Diagnosis and Example• INVOLUNTARY– we must initiate the change Autism Spectrum *Sensory overload *Concrete *Humorless *Medication Attention Deficit *Redirection *Medication *Structure *Firm Boundaries *Substitute Stimulation Psychosis *Loose but firm structure *Reassurance *Medication
POST TRAUMATIC STRESSDISORDER
• Don’t repeatedly talk about the trauma
• Don’t insist on stopping self mutilation
• Know the child’s triggers thru observation
*Touch *Approach from behind
*Physical Control *Hitting
*The dentist or physical
*WHAT ARE THEIR BOUNDARIES?
Anatomy of an Emotional Hijacking
VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY
• ANXIETY DISORDERS *Education *Reassurance *Desensitize
*Avoid the phobic stimulus make it stronger *Medication
• DEPRESSION *Medication *Encourage doing *Build success *Interfere with self-deprecating thoughts *Point out over generalizing and grandiosity
VOLUNTARY
• OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT
• REWARDS and CONSEQUENCES
• CONDUCT DISORDER
Pursue legal action
WHATS OUT THERE
• Location: small rural school
• The story: Emmien want a be
• Behavior: I can’t stop myself
• Diagnosis: Bipolar
• Location: Affluent small city schoool
• The Story: The good little bad little girl
• The Behavior: From 0 to 60 in a second
• The Diagnosis: Post traumatic Stress • Disorder
BLOCKER BEHAVIORS
1) The parent, teacher, counselor, lecture series
2) Parental body language
3) Extreme emotional displays
4) DON’T ARGUE
REASONS for THREATS
FEAR
LOSS of CONTROL
FRUSTRATION
MANIPULATION
REGAIN CONTROL
INTIMIDATION
FEARRational and Irrational
• OBSERVATION
Stance…tense and ready to fight
Skin…light or ashen
Looks…wide eyed
Voice…whinny, pleading, gasping
Breathing…rapid and shallow
FEAR
• RESPONSE
*Communicate safety
*Move slow, hands in view
*Stand 8 ft away
*Sound firm and supportive
*Talk encouragingly, calmly, promise help
*Avoid physical contact unless permitted
FRUSTRATION
• OBSERVATION
*Stance…tense and prepared to attack
*Skin…shades of purple or red
*Face…tense, glaring, flared nostrils
*Voice…menacing, loud, aggressive
*Breathing…loud, deep, long, heavy
FRUSTRATION
• RESPONSE
* Communicate transfer of control
* Act self confident, directive, firm
* Stand in front *Palms down
* Remain out of reach
* Voice-firm, quiet, commanding
* Repeat directions
MANIPULATION
• OBSERVATION
* Temper tantrums
* Plays people against each other
*Promotes confusion with irrelevant info
* Pitiful victim accuser aggressive
tone threats against property
assault when all else fails
MANIPULATION
• RESPONSE
* Communicate detachment
* Act closed, disinterested
* Stay close to intervene if necessary
* DON’T turn your back
* Instructions quiet and repetitive
INTIMIDATION
• OBSERVATION
*Crowding, standing too close
*Refuses to comply
*State strong demand
*Transmit threat of physical injury with
reminder of consequences
INTIMIDATION• RESPONSE * Identify consequences and safe choices * Be poised and ready to act *Take a defensive body position * Sound “matter of fact” * Avoid screaming and shouting * Make clear direct statements * NO threats, swearing, insults *DON’T BLUFF !
Now is the Time!Now is the Time!
You Are The One!You Are The One!