Educators as First Responders

<p><i>Educators as First Responders</i> is a comprehensive hands-on guide to adolescent development and mental health for teachers and other educators of students in grades 6-12. Today’s schools are at the forefront of supporting adolescents with increasingly complex challenging psychosocial needs. Moreover students are more likely to seek out a trusted teacher advisor or coach for support than to confide directly in a parent or even a school counselor. Succinct and accessible this book provides tips and strategies that teachers coaches nurses counselors and other school professionals can put into immediate use with students in varying degrees of distress. These evidence-based practices and real-world classroom examples will help you understand the “whole student” a developing individual shaped not just by parental pressure or psychiatric diagnosis but by school and broader cultural and systemic forces.</p>