SPM and SPM-2 Quick Tips Case Study: What’s Behind Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom?

Place-based SEL can be the strong, firm rope that connects people to each other, to cultural resilience resources—and to the land on which everyone depends.

Despite the clarity of diagnostic criteria, identifying depression in teens isn’t always straightforward. At every age, depression can look different from person to person, with some people experiencing emotional symptoms and others having more physical ones.  

An experienced LCSW shares some common—and some surprising—signs of depression in young people.

Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). Risky sexual behavior, substance use, and bullying decrease, but more students experience mental health problems, violence, and suicidal thoughts, according to CDC's Data Summary & Trends Report for its 2011–2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

To diagnose developmental language disorder accurately in girls, researchers say clinicians should work across disciplines to erase gendered language stereotypes. 

As we enter another winter with health experts predicting a “triple-demic” of flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), researchers are learning more about how the pandemic has affected students around the world. Here’s an overview of the changes many students are experiencing post-pandemic, and how they could still be affecting assessments and evaluations. 

The WPS Graduate School Alliance Program (GSAP) provides graduate programs in psychological and behavioral health professions with access to some of the most trusted and reliable assessments in use today—100% free. 

Comprehensive Treatment-Informed Evaluation Frameworks can lead to reliable diagnoses. Perhaps more importantly, they can open a child’s world to you, leading to effective, highly individualized treatment plans.