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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How can school staff support creating a shared language around mental health?
KEY UNDERSTANDINGS
-Supporting student mental health in your school is a process.
-Mental Health and Mental Illness are different from one another, but there is a relationship between them. Mental Health is a critical component of our mental wellbeing. Mental Illnesses or Disorders are conditions where our thinking, mood and behaviours negatively affect how we function in our lives.
-It is possible to have a mental health problem, but it is not significant enough to be a diagnosed mental illness. Students can learn to cope with these feelings and increase their resiliency.
-Establishing shared language within and across schools, and with home and community, can be a helpful way to avoid misunderstandings.
-It is important for students to have safe adults in their school to talk to.
-There is no stigma with mental health. We have to support each other.
-It is important that schools have a shared language and vision for how we can support all of our students’ mental health.
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