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Home< Programs   Seriously Emotionally Disturbed   The programs for students identified as Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (SED) in Memphis City Schools follow the range of services available to any student identified as a child with a disability.  The program offers students the opportunity to develop academic and emotional coping skills in the least restrictive environment designated by the IEP team.  Many students need the structure and intensity of a self-contained program designed to serve the unique emotional and behavioral needs of the ED students in a class setting with smaller pupil to teacher ratio and with specialized behavior management programs concentrating on positive reinforcement of acceptable and appropriate behaviors rather than on punishment and negative reactions.  With the support of mental health clinicians providing individual and group therapy, the program for students with SED assists the students in learning specialized skills in managing their own behaviors while increasing academic functioning.  The goal of the program is to return the student to a less restrictive environment once skills are mastered.  Additionally, students are involved in community-based programs such as service learning, an academically related community program, which fosters character development in students through service to others.   Students who experience more severe emotional problems than can be addressed in the self-contained classroom, may need more intensive therapeutic interventions as are found in our Day Treatment Program.  Memphis City Schools offers a highly structured Day Treatment Program for students in grades K-12, which provides individualized therapy, psychiatric consultation and focus group therapy in a highly structured small class setting.   Locations There are eight elementary school classes, six middle school classes, and nine high school classes strategically placed throughout the District.   Contacts: Pat Beane, Coordinator (901) 416-0202; Beth Kontrim, Program Supervisor; Joe Patterson, School Psychologist; Shirley Flowers, Service Learning.

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