Behavioral Health Program Credit Options

Certificate of Completion:

Once you have completed the entire program, you will have the opportunity to download and/or print a certificate of completion. This certificate will acknowledge that you have completed 15 contact hours.

You can use this certificate for professional development and relicensure purposes.

Program Requirements for Certificate of Completion:

  • Watch all 10 modules
  • Complete all associated quizzes

Graduate Credit Option:

Program Requirements for Colorado State University Credit:

  • Register with CSU and pay associated fee
  • Watch all 10 modules
  • Complete all associated quizzes
  • Complete additional coursework as outlined below

There is an addtional cost for graduate credit and you must register directly with CSU to receive credit.

Registration Cost: $65 per credit hour paid to CSU, this program is one graduate credit

Student Coursework to Receive Graduate Credit:

Student Recommended Reading:

  • Desautels, Lori (2023). Intentional Neuroplasticity: Moving our Nervous Systems and Educational System Toward Post-Traumatic Growth. Wyatt MacKenzie Publishing. Dallas.

Student Assignments:

Module 2: Neuroscience

  • Reflection paper (one page): As you have looked at your own, and others’ behaviors through a brain state and stress response lens, what have you noticed? How has using this lens impacted your thinking and/or behaviors?
  • Brain and Body State research & write-up: Chose at least one adult or student with whom you have challenging moments. Consider the following questions and put your answers into the template.
    • During the last challenging event what clues did you see that might help you guess what brain state they might have been in? What information were they able to, and not able to, process inthe moment?
    • If you think about the stress reactions continuum (the chipmunk pictures) what is your guess asto how they might have been experiencing the world in that moment?
    • Looking back, was there an escalation in their behavior?
    • What information was their behavior giving you? Consider both their arousal state and their perception.
    • If you look at the nervous system symptoms chart, where might you put them?
    • After reflecting upon your responses, write up your thoughts on what might have been occurring in that situation, including thoughts on your own brain and body states and what role that might have played.
    • Finally, what thoughts do you have for working with this person in the future?
    • Brain and Body State Template

Module 3: Safety

  • Experiential-based paper: Using the lens of understanding that safety and belonging start in the brain, identify at least 3 interactions you have had or you have seen where an adult’s response might have inadvertently sent the message they didn’t get the student’s experience and it might have actually resulted in escalation (either increased the behavioral reaction or lead to a shut down). Thinking about it now, how might you handle that situation?

Modules 4 and 5:

  • Performance Assignment: Chose at least one of the concepts or strategies identified in these modules and outline how you will or have taught and applied it in your work with students or adults. Explain why you chose the strategy you did.
  • Experiential Activity: Watch a group of students and identify what you see them naturally doing as attempts at self-regulation. Then, choose at least one student and focus on finding ways to support them in becoming aware of their own experiences in these moments and model alternative ways to work with the energy that fit for the situation. Write up the experience.

Module 6:

  • Reflection paper (one page): Using the timeline approach to interventions has benefits and challenges. What do you perceive as the greatest benefits and challenges? How might you work with the challenges you identified?

Module 7:

  • Performance Assignment: Chose one of these main concepts covered in this module – Braindrops, learning tools, or values clashes – and outline how you will apply what you have learned in your work with students to support creating an environment that includes all learners.

Module 8:

  • Self-Assessment: Describe an example of an accommodation or intervention that you feel you have successfully provided and explain what you think made it successful? Describe an example of an accommodation or intervention that you feel was not successful and explain why you think it wasn’t successful. Upon reflection what might you do What might you do in the future to make it more successful?

Module 9:

  • Synthesis assignment: In one-three paragraphs sum up the take aways from this module that feel the most salient to you and explain why?

Module 10:

  • Reflection paper (one page): Reflect upon your response to the following question posed in class: Which of these two models (medical and social) most closely aligns with my current thinking on neurotype-responsive practices in education and why do I think that is?
  • Capstone project: Identify compliance-based practices either you have or are using or you see being used and transform them into neurodiversity affirming practices.

Students Activities and Methods for Grading:

Points Assignment
15 Module 2 reflection paper
25 Module 2 Brain & Body State Research & Write up
15 Module 3 experiential-based paper
15 Module 4 & 5’s performance assignment
25 Module 4 & 5’s experiential activity
15 Module 6 reflection paper
15 Module 7 performance assignment
15 Module 8 self-assessment
15 Module 9 synthesis assignment
15 Module 10 reflection paper
25 Module 10 capstone project
25 10 Quizzes
220 total possible Need at least 175 to pass for one graduate credit

You do not have to complete all assignments

The course is Pass/Fail.

Registering for CSU Credit:

Registration Cost: $65 per credit hour paid to CSU, this program is one graduate credit

You must register with CSU to receive credit for this program, and once you register you cannot drop the course nor receive a refund from CSU.

Registration deadlines: Coming soon

General Registration Information for all

Registration for Behavioral Health Program: Coming soon