Hallie Bulkin recommends screening every child on your caseload, even mentally, to build confidence with the process. Keep two reference sheets during sessions and use the "Feed the Pizza" technique to speed up screening and turn unfamiliar assessments into automatic observations.
You're gonna get plenty of practice when you go out there. The more kids you screen, even just for practice, the better you're gonna feel, right? So just go out there, screen every kid on your caseload, even if you're just doing it in your mind, you're not even checking boxes. Just have this, have this sitting next to you, right? If you can have these 2 sheets just sitting next to you while you're doing therapy, so you're kind of like, where are we? Do I see anything interesting, right? The more you look at it, the more familiar you become with it, the less it feels new, less it feels kind of like this unknown, and the more you start to go like, oh, I know what I'm looking for without even looking at the screener. You start to pick up on things really quickly. Plus, Feed the Pizza is gonna really take you there.
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