Nowhere to Hide by Jerome J. Schultz

Author:Jerome J. Schultz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

TAKING KIDS FROM DISTRESS TO DE-STRESS: A MODEL FOR CHANGE

Here is an overview of the DE-STRESS acronym to give you a quick idea of what’s in the model. I follow this with an in-depth discussion of each of the elements, so that you’ll be able to examine and modify your behavior in ways that will improve student self-esteem, self-advocacy, and self-understanding. Implementing the strategies contained in this section will help children and adolescents recognize and combat unproductive, unhealthy stress, putting them on the road to success. These are the steps of the DE-STRESS model and what each involves:

Define: Analyzing and understanding a student’s learning profile. Diagnosing and defining LD and ADHD and the impact they have on academic, behavioral, social, and emotional performance.

Educate: Showing the child how to answer the question, How does LD or ADHD impact my schoolwork and my life? Educating those who work with or live with this child about the child’s individual learning style and needs.

Speculate: Helping kids learn to look ahead; to anticipate the problems they might encounter as they face new challenges. Encouraging them to identify the assets they bring to each task, along with the additional supports they might need from other people to be successful.

Teach: Teaching students the strategies, techniques, and approaches that will maximize success and minimize frustration and failure. Teaching them how to recognize and manage stress, along with the skills of honest self-appraisal and how to learn from and repair errors.

Reduce Threat: Creating learning and social environments that reduce, remove, or neutralize the risk. Teaching children how to recognize and deactivate “stress triggers.”

Exercise: Building in opportunities for regular and rigorous physical activity, which is known to enhance brain power and reduce stress. Also, recognizing the importance of proper nutrition and hydration.

Success: Providing abundant opportunities to display mast­ery and experience success. Teaching students to replace the language of self-doubt and fear with the language of confidence, and using the language of success at home and in the classroom.

Strategize: Using what you and the child have learned about minimizing and managing stress, and about the relationship of stress to LD and ADHD, to plan for a future in which continued success is likely.

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