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Volume 21 International Journal of Emergency Mental
Health and Human Resilience
ISSN: 1522-4821
Mental Health 2019
March 07-08, 2019
March 07-08, 2019 | Barcelona, Spain
5th International Conference on
Mental Health and Human Resilience
Peeling the onion: Interventions to stimulate, support, and sustain reading progress in a child psychiatry
unit
Moira Laura Eva Dechef
Jewish General Hospital, Canada
Purpose: The aim of this workshop is to focus on how teachers can peel the educational onion to convey essential
tools to students who exhibit complex scholastic experiences. Our educational canvas is painted with student diversity
and varied learning styles. In addition, mental health vulnerabilities and their impact on the learning process only
add intricacy to the teaching domain. As a special need’s educator working with students presenting enmeshed
educational/emotional portraits and have observed general instructive strategies often fall short in “success for all”
for student reading proficiency.
Method: The instructional tools utilized within a psychiatric unit’s therapeutic classroom, consists of merging
research findings and interventions for students with reading disabilities and psychiatric vulnerabilities. Strategies
designed to engage, motivate, and challenge students who demonstrate anxiety, depression, helplessness, or negative
behavioral manifestations when faced with the realities of their reading/learning difficulties, will be shared.
Conclusion: Although results consist of observations in the field, they demonstrated that presented interventions are
helpful and make a difference in reading proficiency for students with emneshed educational and emotional profiles.
Biography
Moira Laura Eva Dechef is working within a large multi-disciplinary team, composed of psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, social workers,
occupational therapists, and teachers, on a variety of different cases regarding evaluation, creation of treatment plans, carrying out of treatment plans, in
addition to treatment plan modification. She is serving as a liaison between various elementary schools, school boards, and parents to ensure students/clients
are attending an educational environment best suited to their needs, as well as suggesting/facilitating changes on a case-by-case basis. She is providing
individualized instruction for students with diagnosed psychiatric disorders, behaviour disorders, and severe learning disabilities; application of behavioural and
cognitive behaviour therapy techniques to modify student behaviours within the classroom setting; teaching and application of social skills, to strengthen student
social interactions and; production of progress reports, discharge summaries, and IEPs included in hospital psychiatric chart.
Moira Laura Eva Dechef et al., Int J Emerg Ment Health 2019, Volume 21
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C1-026