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Bridging Education and Mental Health
Winter/Spring 2010
session:
March 1 to May 3, 2010
Register by: February 22
Instructor: Leah Hjelseth, MA Earn 24 clock hours (CEU Certificate)
2010 Course Schedule (pdf
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Course Description
Instructors
Cost and Credit
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Course Description
The goal of this course is to find common
ground between behavioral and therapeutic approaches to supporting
children who engage in challenging behavior. The course material
expands on both the functional behavioral assessment and
relationship-based teaching to explore what causes and sustains
maladaptive behavioral patterns in children's actions and
interactions and how early childhood professionals can support the
healthy social and emotional development of children. A continuum of
intervention strategies are offered to address the needs of children
with varying needs: typically developing children, children with
disabilities, and children with and without disabilities who have
experienced trauma, neglect, and other environmental and
relationships issues.
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online instruction?
"Thanks! Wow!
Good ideas to try in my practice."
"I did have a great
success with BEAM material today. The child that hits stopped
hitting as she had access to the open-ended snack. As this
happened, she also made friends with [another child that] does not
have other friends, so this was a bonus that we hadn't anticipated
to occur."
--Course participants
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Instructors
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 Leah
Hjelseth's current training, research, and
teaching interests center around addressing challenging behavior in
early childhood and early childhood social-emotional development. Ms. Hjelseth teaches two online courses for CEED,
Bridging Education and Mental Health and Addressing the Needs of Young Children with
Challenging Behavior. Leah received her M.A. in Educational
Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2002. Leah is a
doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology with a
thesis examining the effects of intensive coaching on teacher
behavior aimed at decreasing challenging behavior in children and
facilitating social-emotional development.
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 Cindy
Croft is Director of the Center for Inclusive Child Care at
Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota where she also serves as
faculty in the College of Education.
She is adjunct faculty at Minneapolis
Community and Technical College and teaches for the Minnesota
on-line Eager To Learn program. She has her M.A. in Education with
Early Childhood Emphasis. She has authored The Six Keys:
Strategies for Promoting Children’s Mental Health in Early Childhood
Programs and co-authored Children and Challenging Behavior:
Making Inclusion Work with Deborah Hewitt. In addition, she has
edited two children’s books series, Helping Youth with Mental,
Physical, & Social Challenges for Mason Crest Publishers.
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Cost and Credit
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Registration fee: $225
(Group
rates are also available.)
This course is offered for
24 Clock Hours
of continuing education
credit. The certificate is approved and issued by the College of
Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota.
There are no prerequisites needed
to register for this course.
Courses are geared toward the upper
classperson (senior) graduate level.
Note: If you are from a
state other than MN, you may want to check with your state's licensing
board to verify that the same measurement standard will be
applied in your state for this credit.
Note: Minimum number of
students required to hold the session is 5. If enrollment is
lower than 5, you have the option of receiving a refund or
deferring participation until the next session.
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Course Required Textbook
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The
required text for this course is:
Koplow, L.
(Ed.)(2007)(second edition). Unsmiling faces: How preschools can heal.
New York: Teachers College Press.
This text is available at
bookstores. CEED no longer keeps copies in stock, so please
purchase a copy.
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Additional
Information
Download a
course
informational flyer (pdf file)
2009 Online Course Schedule (pdf file)
Sample syllabus available upon request
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Questions?
If you have any questions on
registering for this course, please contact Karen Anderson, tech and
support for these courses, at 612-625-6617 or
ander352@umn.edu.
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