Do you need permission to give psy services to a kid?

·         Yes you need the parents consent

·         You can meet with them once to make sure there are not in danger

Can you consult with a teacher without parent permission?

·         Yes is long as it for the entire class

·         But it you  need pull kids out to talk to them individually

What do when the kid may hurt themselves?

·         Secure the kid

·         Tell parents

·         You can’t commit the kid but you can talk to the parents and try and get them to do it

·         Know district policy on suicide

·         Trained contact persons for at-risk students

·         Inform parents

·         Referral to appropriate agency

·         Transport student to appropriate agency (not you transport rather ambulance, sheriff)  if parents are unable/willing

·         Can call ambulance to take them to the hospital where a doctor can commit them.

what to do about when you find a kid using drugs

·         Tell parents about cocaine

·         You can not,  not tell parents if you find out about something that presents a material risk to the child- private practice

·         At schools you, no absolute rules here, but the same clinical rules apply here

·         Need to know the district policy about drug abuse

Kids and Pregnancy & sexual behavior

·         Find out if she knows how to protect herself

·         Need to know the district policy on this

·         Can you make a referral to connect to services?

·         If she is safe, with a another minor not with too many partners and she is capable to make these types of decisions, 17ish you are ok not telling the parents

·         Anyone under the age of consent in your state. In LA is it 17years old

·         You can always disclose but you need to determine if there is a benefit in disclosing

can school psys recommend pharmocotherapies

·         We cannot recommend or change peoples drug therapy

·         information that puts the students at risk you have to disclose the information to the principal

Six basic questions you should ask when working on systems change

o   What are you trying to achieve?

o   What is the evidence it is the right thing to do?

o   Why hasn’t it happened already?

o   How would you create real behavior change?

o   How will you measure and act on implementation?

o   How will you measure progress?

·         At first they are ahead and then they look just like the kids they are in school with

when is tracking/instructional grouping good and bad

·         Schoolwide bad and with classwide good