Well Aware
There is no doubt that mental health has become a vital concern in our schools and communities. But beyond the focus on symptoms and disorders, there is a shift toward understanding that developing positive mental health is foundational to student academic achievement, effective life skills, and overall well-being. Positive mental health encompasses all students and supports the goals of prevention, inclusion, compassionate support, and healthy development. The goal of this resource is to provide you with the research-based evidence, tools, and strategies to help create that culture and support students’ healthy development in practical and effective ways. It is difficult to overstate the difference a teacher, or a school, can make in a child’s or youth’s mental health—not through expensive or sophisticated interventions— but through compassion, inclusion, encouragement, and effective instruction.
Author: Patrick Carney
Paperback
2014
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- Canadian resource