Mental health and mental illnesses

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Module Overview

Originated by Prof. Felicia Megret

This module explores what is the difference between mental health and mental illness. It looks at possible triggers for mental illness and highlights real life examples of the condition including issues such as the potential stigma of mental illness. It then focusses on positive steps that children and adults can take to promote personal mental health, accept responsibility for their actions, plan for the future and face it without fear, and set realistic and attainable goals.

We will explore

  • Mental health and the brain
  • Characteristics of mentally healthy people
  • Mental health in adolescence
  • Looking at possible causes of mental illness
  • How mental health issues can be treated

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Our programmes include a range of learning materials to support both teachers and students in the classroom. Content wise, each module is different but some components are common to all to provide assessment tools for teachers and familiar references for students.

This module includes

  • Lesson plans (including higher ability)
  • PowerPoint presentation (includes higher ability)s
  • Observation of thoughts worksheet
  • Reflection of thoughts worksheet
  • Teacher assessment
  • The story of Mellie and Millie animation

We believe that some topics are approached more powerfully by bringing in animation. That is why some of the topics have videos to illustrate the learning points