What is Mental Health?

Managing Stress and Building Resilience

Trauma and Sleep Disorders

Mental Health and Wellness

Consent and Abuse of Power

Communicating and Respecting Boundaries

Communication and Relationships

This comprehensive health class focuses on mental health and healthy relationships and aligns with National Health Education Standards (NHES). In the Mental Health section, students will gain a stronger understanding of mental and emotional health, types of anxiety disorders and eating disorders, stress-management, self-esteem, and the tools to apply health practices to daily life and stressful environments. In the Communication and Relationships section, students will learn about the 5 love languages, empathetic listening, the importance of consent and setting personal boundaries, and inappropriate relations with figures of authority. Students explore these topics through visual novel-like experiences with illustrations, social media simulations, texting simulations, and adaptivity. Through engaging characters, adaptive stories, conversation-based learning, and social media simulations, student will learn about managing stress and navigating interpersonal relationships through communication and self-advocacy. 

Teen Mental Health Education

Identify decision-making skills that promote individual, family, and community mental health.

Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents.

2.8.1

Describe how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

2.8.3

Explains what stress is and discovers personal stressors.

ST.E.1

Distinguishes between positive and negative stress and documents personal stressors.

ST.I.1

Documents and analyzes the impact of physical, emotional, social, family, school, and environmental stressors on personal health.

ST.I.2

Identifies, investigates and monitors physical and emotional reactions to personal Mental health.

ST.E.3

Describes, researchers, analyzes and evaluates personal stressful situations and current ways of dealing with them.

ST.E.4

Selects and applies a strategy to manage stress in health-enhancing ways.

ST.I.5

Clarifies expectations of self and others and their relation to personal stress.

ST.I.6

Recognizes personal capabilities and limitations in relation to personal stress.

ST.E.7

Monitors, evaluates and adjusts the personal stress management strategies for wellness and coping with stressful Situations.

ST.I.8

Stress management can reduce feelings of anger.

VP.E.14

Individuals can develop coping skills to work through challenging situations.

1A.Ie

Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity, failures, and difficulties.

1B.Ic

Individuals can take action (individually or with support) to positively impact their own mental health.

1A.Id

Individuals can build resilience by working through adversity and they can build it by communicating with.

1B.Id

Individuals experience a full range of emotions and can learn to recognize them and predict their normal course.

1C.Ia

Individuals can develop healthy ways to identify, express and respond to their emotions; this is an important part of self-care and can impact mental health.

1C.Ib

Individuals who are mentally and emotionally healthy use self-care to promote  mental health and overall well-being of others who have been through similar experiences.

1A.Ca

Analyze similarities and differences between one's own and others' perspectives.

Explain how adolescent brain development influences cognitive processing, emotions, and decision making.

Identify and describe how environmental influences such as air, water, or noise can affect an individual's mental health.

Differentiate between healthy and unhealthy self-management strategies for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, loss, and grief.

Describe the relationships among physical, mental, and social health factors during adolescence (e.g., the effects of stress on physical and mental performance, effects of nutrition on growth).

23.C.3a

Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated.

1.12.3

Determine the value of applying a thoughtful decision-making process in health-related situations.

5.12.2

Demonstrates ways to communicate care, consideration, and respect of self and others.

CM.C.6

Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.

4.8.1

Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks.

4.8.2

Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.

4.8.3

Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others.

4.8.4

Analyze the role of individual responsibility for enhancing health.

7.12.1

Recognizes barriers that interfere with effective healthy communication and applies strategies to overcome barriers.

CM.I.5

Explores the attributes (knowledge, skills, competencies) of a nurturing, empathetic, respectful, responsible person.

RM.I.2

Employs active listening and response skills in health-enhancing ways.

CM.C.1

Demonstrates healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

CM.C.3

Demonstrates effective refusal skills in real-life health-related situations.

CM.C.7

Conducts a personal assessment of relationship management (nurturing, empathy, respect, responsibility) knowledge, and skills.

RM.C.1

Evaluate strategies for preventing and resolving interpersonal problems.

2D.3a

Analyze similarities and differences between one’s own and others’ perspectives.

2A.4a

Use communication skills to gain understanding of others’ feelings and perspectives.

2A.4b

Demonstrate perspective-taking and communication skills for building and maintaining healthy relationships and determining when and how to end unhealthy relationships.

Describe healthy ways to express friendship, affection, and love.

20.C

Describe appropriate and effective methods of communicating emotions in healthy dating/romantic relationships and marriage.

20.D

Evaluate the importance of mutual respect, trust, support, honesty, commitment, and reliability in healthy dating/romantic relationships and marriage.

20.E

Describe behaviors in dating/romantic relationships that enhance dignity.

20.F

Describe how a healthy sense of self and making decisions regarding setting and respecting personal boundaries promote healthy dating/romantic relationships.

21.F

Analyze how the school and community can affect personal health practices and behaviors.

2.8.4

Describe the interrelationships of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health.

1.12.2

Use skills for communicating effectively with family, peers, and others to enhance health.

4.12.1

Demonstrate how to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others.

4.12.4

Evaluate the effectiveness of health-related decisions.

5.12.7

Predicts short-and long term benefits and harmful consequences of behaviors based on the assessment.

RM.C.4

Selects and applies a health skill to improve personal health and safety.

RM.C.5

Demonstrates strategies to prevent and manage conflict in healthy ways.

CM.C.8

Applies collaboration skills to address a complex health issue.

CM.C.9

Identifies personal health decisions and analyzes related internal and external influences.

DM.C.1

Applies a decision-making model to real-life health-related situations.

DM.C.5

Analyzes perceptions of peer, family, and community normative health-related behavior.

DM.C.6

Individuals know and understand the school’s and/or employer’s sexual harassment policy.

VP.C.9

Relationship violence can cause emotional and physical harm for both males and females.

VP.C.10

Individuals know the signs of relationship violence and where to go for help and support.

VP.C.11

Define the characteristics of unhealthy or harmful relationships, including manipulation.

21.C.v

Identify protective strategies for avoiding unsafe situations that heighten the risk of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sex traficking, and teen dating violence.

21.D

Explain the importance of reporting to a parent or another trusted adult sexual  harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sex traficking, and dating violence involving self or others.

21.E

Evaluate strategies and techniques for identity protection in digital and online environments.

Teen Mental Health Education

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