SEL Resource – Alignment Nashville

Promotion & Prevention Promotion and Prevention are the foundational components of providing mental well-being for our students. Both work complementary of each other in building resiliency and coping skills of children, young people and families; raising community awareness; improving capacity for early identification and making referrals to appropriate services.

Recognition & Intervention By changing common influences in the development of children and adolescents, we can help them function well during life’s challenges and remain free of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral problems that would impair their activities. Efforts to enhance developmentally appropriate tasks (developmental competence), a positive sense of self-esteem, mastery, well-being, and social inclusion can all strengthen children’s ability to cope with adversity.

Crisis Intervention Crisis intervention has several purposes. It aims to reduce the intensity of an individual’s emotional, mental, physical and behavioral reactions to a situation. It also helps individuals return to their level of functioning before the crisis. In fact, functioning may be improved above and beyond previous levels by developing new coping skills and eliminating ineffective ways of coping, such as withdrawal, isolation and substance abuse. In addition, crisis intervention can help individuals recover from the crisis without the development of serious long-term problems.