Education, Mental Health and Well-Being

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Education, Mental Health and Well-Being

How Mental Health Should Be Taught in Canadian Schools

Students need to consider school a safe space for them, and teachers need to foster that environment by genuinely paying attention to the kids

Students need to learn to identify and manage emotions in younger grades, move to learning about resiliency as they get older, and how to understand what they're going through and how to manage it, if help is needed, etc.

Teaching about mental health is not consistent within Canadian schools - in many cases, it's not mandatory

School guidance counselors 'stretched' amid rising mental health needs

Many people outside of education seem to assume that schools have the necessary resources to deal with the increasing mental health needs of students - this is not the case

As of January 2018, 14 % of elementary schools have a guidance counselor, particularly troubling for those schools that teach grades 7 and 8

Ontario has an average of 1 full-time guidance teacher per almost 400 high school students

Emotional Disturbances

A personal journal can help students to release anxiety in a private and secure way, to be shared if necessary

Personalized, one-on-one, interest-based conversations between student and teacher have been shown to improve overall student behaviour

Helping kids to understand when they need to take a break and sharing affirmations can be helpful

Students are in a persistent state of alarm