Mental Health & Wellness REsources

National PTA Healthy Minds,

sponsored by the New York Life Foundation and The Allstate Foundation

Offered by Middlebrook PTA, Wilton High School PTSA, Wilton Public Schools

Parent/Caregiver
Wellness Series -
DBT Skills for Healthy Minds

About the Program:

Teaching DBT Steps A to students at the secondary level is part of our district Social Emotional Learning (SEL) approach. These skills are taught in the Wellness Seminar at the High School, DBT class at Middlebrook, and particular skills are in the process of being embedded in the health and the life curriculums.
The series is designed for parents and caregivers of students in grades 6-12.
This program was offered free by WPS and the PTAs for Wilton families through a grant opportunity.
Led by Tanya Leonard.
Two series were offered January-April 2023. 7-8:30 pm, Q&A 8:30-9pm Location: Middlebrook School
This program was a series of 4 sessions. Attendees are asked to attend all sessions. Sessions are in person or live Zoom.
Please see resources below for more educational opportunities.
If you have questions about DBT for your student at Middlebrook, please contact Tanya Leonard at leonardt@wiltonps.org or Kim Zemo for the district zemok@wiltonps.org.

REGISTRATION (CLOSED)

Healthy Minds 101

Goals:

Discuss the difference between mental health and mental illness, and the factors that influence both.
Explore ways families can prioritize mental health together.
Review what mental health supports and services are available to families

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PTA Healthy Minds: Building Social and Emotional Skills at Home

Goals:
Discover what social and emotional learning is and why it’s important
Learn about key social and emotional skills and how to foster their development in family life
Reflect on our own family lives, how this lens already fits in, and ways in which we can use it to enhance our support of all family members
Discuss with and learn from one another creating a safe, supportive learning community

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Building Resilience

Goals:

Explore examples of adversity.
Discuss what resilience is and is not, and why it is important.
3.Practice ways you as parents and caregivers can help children in your lives build resilience.

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Resources

Recommendations from WPS for further exploration

Books, websites, VIDEOS, APPS, and MORE

Carol Dweck, Mindset

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.

Growth Mindset

Developing a Growth Mindset

Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents

With anxiety at epidemic levels among our children, Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents offers a contrarian yet effective approach to help children and teens push through their fears, worries, and phobias to ultimately become more resilient, independent, and happy

How to Raise an Adult

Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean to highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large.

How to Raise Successful Kids -- Without Over-Parenting | Julie Lythcott-Haims | TED

Watch this video and others from Julie Lythcott Haims Videos

Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence.

The Explosive Child

Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field.

Lives in the Balance - Dr. Ross Greene's website

WHERE COMPASSION AND SCIENCE INTERSECT
Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) is the evidence-based, trauma-informed, neurodiversity affirming model of care that helps caregivers focus on identifying the problems that are causing concerning behaviors in kids and solving those problems collaboratively and proactively.

Chores & Allowance Bot

Manage your children's chores, allowances, and savings goals

DBT Skills in Schools: Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) (The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series)

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills have been demonstrated to be effective in helping adolescents manage difficult emotional situations, cope with stress, and make better decisions. From leading experts in DBT and school-based interventions, this unique manual offers the first nonclinical application of DBT skills. The book presents an innovative social–emotional learning curriculum designed to be taught at the universal level in grades 6–12. Explicit instructions for teaching the skills--mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness--are provided in 30 lesson plans, complete with numerous reproducible tools: 99 handouts, a diary card, and three student tests. The large-size format facilitates photocopying; purchasers also get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials.