Edmonton Catholic Schools Mental Health Strategic Plan: School Conversation Guides
How can your school implement a whole-school approach to create a welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environment that supports the positive mental health of students? A whole-school approach recognizes that all aspects of the school community impact students’ mental health and well-being, and that learning and mental health are inextricably linked. Through a strength-based approach, schools can move their focus from the prevention of specific problems to a more positive, holistic view of child and youth development.
The Conversation Guides / Videos will allow you and your school staff the opportunity to further a conversation around how to support student mental health through a comprehensive, strengths based approach.
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What can school staff do to support and encourage student resiliency?
KEY UNDERSTANDINGS
-A strength-based approach shifts the focus from the prevention of problems to a proactive, positive, holistic approach of student development. It looks at the strengths of an individual and for opportunities, hope and solutions, rather than problems and hopelessness.
-Certain protective or risk factors positively or negatively affect one’s ability to be resilient.
-Students need to learn how to adapt to change and we need to allow students to build their toolbox, so they will be more prepared to face adversity and change in various situations.
-One of the best tools in the development of resilience for children is the presence of a caring adult, someone who is there each day, welcoming, listening, and noticing. We need to provide challenges and opportunities to develop, grow, experience failure and success in an environment that is stable, safe and secure.
-Steps toward success can mean trying multiple times before reaching your goal.
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