Mental Health and High School

Mental Health and High School

Mental Health Literacy Curriculum

Thu, November 29 2018 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM

Presenters

  • Susan Peng-Cowan

Description

This training provides teachers with the knowledge and materials to implement the Mental Health Literacy curriculum in a high school setting.

The curriculum resource takes 8-10 hours and is essentially a unit on Mental Health Literacy. The modules can be easily organized into 45-minute to 1-hour sessions, usually delivered over a period of one to two weeks.

Topics include: 

1. Reducing stigma

2.  Understanding mental health and mental illness

3. Information on specific mental illness – eating disorders, anxiety, depression, ADHD, obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and PTSD

4. Experience of mental illness

5. Seeking help and finding support

6. Importance of positive mental health

Event Notes

This training will be held in the Cowlitz Room at ESD112.  Lunch break is on your own from 11:30-12noon.


Location

ESD 112 Conference and Institute Center
2500 NE 65th Avenue Vancouver WA 98661

Dates

  • Thu, November 29 2018
    8:30 AM - 3:00 PM

Registration

Event # 83920

Price
Free
Registered
21 / 24
Registration Ends
Wednesday Nov 28, 2018 5:00 PM
Registration is now closed.

Professional Hours

Clock Hour Number: VAH0410
6.00 Clock Hours $18.00