SPM and SPM-2 Quick Tips Case Study: What’s Behind Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom?

Board-certified child psychiatrist Loucresie Rupert, MD, offers practical advice for recognizing ADHD symptoms in girls and women.

Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). Risky sexual behavior, substance use, and bullying decrease, but more students experience mental health problems, violence, and suicidal thoughts, according to CDC's Data Summary & Trends Report for its 2011–2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

To diagnose developmental language disorder accurately in girls, researchers say clinicians should work across disciplines to erase gendered language stereotypes. 

Across the country, thousands of students are carrying something heavier than the books in their backpacks. Study after study has confirmed what school psychologists, teachers, and caregivers see firsthand: A growing number of young people have depression that began or worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As we enter another winter with health experts predicting a “triple-demic” of flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), researchers are learning more about how the pandemic has affected students around the world. Here’s an overview of the changes many students are experiencing post-pandemic, and how they could still be affecting assessments and evaluations. 

As we enter another winter with health experts predicting a “triple-demic” of flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), researchers are learning more about how the pandemic has affected students around the world. Here’s an overview of the changes many students are experiencing post-pandemic, and how they could still be affecting assessments and evaluations. 

School mental health professionals often experience the erasure of the work they are trained to do—and find themselves doing other work instead.

Amid widespread teacher and staff shortages, school mental health professionals are more likely than ever to be saddled with duties that are unrelated to providing mental health services. The ASCA report showed that 39% of school counselors feel being assigned “inappropriate duties” is a significant day-to-day challenge (ASCA, 2021).  

The leading attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) assessment has been revised and Conners 4 is now available through WPS.  

The WPS Graduate School Alliance Program (GSAP) provides graduate programs in psychological and behavioral health professions with access to some of the most trusted and reliable assessments in use today—100% free. 

Identifying dyslexia can be more complicated when other health or developmental conditions are also present. This article may help you map the shared territory, differentiating factors, and key questions to ask as you make your way through a comprehensive dyslexia evaluation.

Around the world, clinicians and educators identify dyslexia using widely varying methods, a recent international comparison shows (Sadusky et al., 2022). That diversity troubles some researchers. Without a consensus on how the condition is identified, are practitioners missing some diagnoses?

Because most ADHD research focuses on children, less is known about how symptom profiles change as people move into adolescence and adulthood. What do practitioners need to know about how ADHD looks and feels at different life stages?