SMD 651 - Strategies for Breaking the Conflict Cycle and Teaching Students with Challenging Behaviors

This course will focus on strategies for understanding and breaking the conflict cycle in working with students with challenging behaviors. The course will focus on positive Live Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) strategies for using crisis situations as opportunities to help students with challenging behaviors learn alternatives to patterns of aggressive, disrespectful, and self-demeaning behavior. The course will include lectures, discussion, videos of actual interventions, role-playing, conferencing and reflective assignments. Fieldwork, observations, and interviews with practitioners, and structured application assignments are integrated with coursework.

Prerequisites & Notes
35 hours fieldwork required. Course offered once per year during the Summer I semester.

Credits: 3