New Principals Institute: Advancing School Mental Health, Session 1: Understanding the Avoidance Coping Cycle

This session helps building administrators conceptualize how students are accessing mental health supports in their building. An emphasis will be placed on how reactive supports offered outside the classroom can increase challenges by reinforcing avoidance behavior and meeting attentional needs. Participants explore explanatory factors making it harder for students to meet the emotional demands of school and why current approaches to social emotional instruction have had mixed success.