Lily Ryan

This cheat sheet can be used as a part of psychoeducation for counselors to explain DBT skills and the purposes they can be used for. This sheet can be used as a quick reference guide for students who may be working on individually applying these strategies without staff support.

This reference sheet can be used by students individually or with staff support. This can be complementary to psycho-education on size of the problem, as this sheet can be referenced to understand which coping skills/reactions are necessary and appropriate in small sized, medium sized, and large sized problems

A student can use this flow chart individually or with staff support in order to challenge anxious thinking cycles.

This worksheet can be used to challenge students who are working on interpersonal skills to learn and apply techniques to engage peers in appropriate conversation.

Permanent pass for students to attend lunch group.

This social and emotional lesson focuses on miscommunication and can be adapted to reach a 5th-12th grade audience. This lesson begins with a 5 minute activity that engages students and opens up a conversation about miscommunication. The following presentation includes a clear explanation of what miscommunication is through a cited video, when miscommunication usually happens, and the social and emotional consequences of miscommunication. The lesson concludes with steps to avoid miscommunication

This social emotional lesson allows students to engage in conversation around our ability to only control our own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This presentation challenges students to use given examples to practice their own reactions to difficult conflicts or situations, keeping in mind that they are not able to control others actions or reactions. Radical Acceptance, an important Dialectical Behavioral Therapy strategy, is defined and explained in the context of recognizing our limits to

This safety plan is helpful when working with students with self harm/suicidal ideation/risks. This safety plan is a conclusion to a risk assessment to plan for a student's safety. This plan should be communicated and shared with parents. With collaboration from the student, this plan outlines safe people and places within both the school and home settings. This also includes strategies to use when feeling unsafe. This word document is editable so that appropriate emergency information can be in

This worksheet acknowledges the individuality in how students are influenced socially and emotionally in the school environment. With collaboration from the student, this worksheet helps students notice, identify, and analyze what their anxiety looks like at different levels and what can trigger these reactions.

The primary use of the student support plan/student flow chart is for the student to be able to independently access their coping skills in the classroom when feeling overwhelmed. This includes a section where they identify their level of their problem (emergency, huge, medium, small, tiny) and the appropriate corresponding response. From there, they have a road map of which coping skills to try, ranging from grounding skills to CBT thought restructuring skills.

Out of Office sign for school adjustment counselor/school counselor/school psychology/administrator. This sign prompts students with other options if help is needed at that moment.

Outlining the limits of confidentiality for counselors.