Bobbi Morgan: The Web of Support for Children's Mental Health through School Social Work
- Author
- Ramira Alamilla
- Published
- Sat 02 Mar 2024
- Episode Link
- https://sites.libsyn.com/494498/bobbi-morgan-how-school-social-workers-contribute-to-a-web-of-support-for-childrens-mental-health
Ever wondered what our current school system is doing to meet the mental health needs of young students? Find out what school-based mental health looks like. In this conversation, Bobbi Morgan, a school social worker in the Salt Lake City School District in Utah, describes the tools teachers, counselors and social workers use in school settings in order to provide students with a web of support for trauma and its impacts, helping students develop coping skills and increased well being.
Tier I Interventions: Classroom and Schoolwide presentations description and Tier 3 Intervention: Individual Therapy (6:55)
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) estimates between 70-75% of children who receive any kind of mental health services receive those services in their schools (9:20)
The Benefits of Mental Health Programs in Schools | K-12 Schools | U.S. News (usnews.com)Description of child-centered play therapy at the elementary level (10:39)
Description of sand tray therapy at the middle school level (17:15)
Examples of (Big T) Trauma and (little t) trauma and their varying effects on students in the classroom (20:16)
Integrated approach of weekly well-being team meetings (26:27)
How Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are used (28:10)
Different types of Social Emotional Learning programs (SELs) that schools can choose from for their populations (29:40)
The role teachers play in the integrated approach to students' mental health (33:27)
