We speak with Dr. Marsha Ellison and Evelyn Frankford about assisting students with serious mental health challenges make transitions from high school. These students often don’t receive the supports they want and need, especially finding work or navigating college disability accommodations. Long-term relationships with a knowledgeable adult and positive youth development strategies can make a difference—but require commitments of time and money.
Overview
00:00-00:52 Intros
00:52-02:45 Numbers of students with serious mental health conditions
02:45-06:47 Schools’ capacity to recognize and serve students with serious mental health conditions
06:47-09:47 Responding to students’ needs and motivations—a positive youth development model
09:47-14:54 Strategies; intensity of relationship building; problems with the Medicaid model
14:54-15:40 Looking at the whole context of where the youth is coming from
15:40-18:23 Transitions from high school—counselors’ limitations; supporting and improving counselors’ capacity
18:23-27:02 Special ed reforms to support successful transitions
27:02-29:55 Moving from punitive to supportive approaches to behavioral issues
29:55-32:22 Participatory action research
32:22-35:08 Ethical issues in psychiatry’s (and social work’s) history and practice
Transcription
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Soundtrack by Poddington Bear