School-age children in America are facing an emerging mental health crisis. What can parents and educators do to protect the wellbeing of children and teens?

Hopkins at Home is proud to present "In Conversation," a new series outlining the intersection between faculty research at the School of Education and other schools & centers at Johns Hopkins University.

In this first installment, Christopher Morphew, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education, will host a two-part conversation on the current adolescent mental health crisis in America through the dual lenses of public health and education policy. Joining Dean Morphew are Elise Pas, a research professor in the department of mental health within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Jodi Miller, a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Education.

This recording is the second part of the conversation, focused on intervention strategies for parents and educators, and includes the recording of our live Q&A with Elise Pas and Jodi Miller. To view the first part, please click here: https://youtu.be/nvshzd2z6y8

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00:00 Intro to Part II
01:14 What are some examples of interventions that schools can use to address mental health?
04:17 From a universal program perspective, let’s talk about emotional regulation and how we can regularly check in with students.
06:43 Connection - Students being advocates for other students, social awareness to flag behaviors or signs of mental illness and connect to resources.
12:12 Restorative Practices- How can strategies for improving group dynamics, get students to think about “soft” life skills, as they think about academic skills?
15:25 Interventions/Strategies focused on specific kinds of groups.
17:20 What are effective strategies to making environmental changes? (i.e. Phones/Social Media presence)
24:12 Conclusion of Part 2 Conversation
24:47 Intro to Q+A
25:17 Should educators and mental health spaces look at more modern theories of human development? As the world has changed since the stalwarts like Erickson, Vygotsky and Kohlberg?
28:33 How can we get all these amazing ideas into educational policy statewide or nationally? Is there anything regular folks can do to help?
32:36 How can we help high schoolers even in higher grade levels, if they don’t have restorative skills developed earlier in the educational process? How can they get better at an older age?
36:44 Can you share some examples for integrating mental health education into curriculum in age-appropriate ways?
41:05 How can parents best advocate for kids' mental health needs in the classroom, especially with older kids, when a power dynamic with teachers might not be so balanced.
49:42 Is mental health is becoming a bigger focus in teacher training in general, especially in programs like the JHU School of Education, Clinical Mental Health counseling programs, or MS Ed programs, but also in continuing training for current teachers?
52:07 Should schools have a mental health counterpart to physical education? Would resources or interventions be more useful in person, or a one-on-one environment when needed? Our would doing it in a classroom environment, having a Physical Education component with a Mental Education component, be a good way to teach resiliency?
53:31 What would you say to folks from older generations that think that schools have gone too far in overly coddling students, failing to prepare them for real-life situations in which they do need to show a lot of mental resiliency and fortitude?
1:02:22 Conclusion