Let's Talk about Mental Health
Week 5-7:The Role of Genetics and Family on Mental Health
Week 1: Trauma Informed Classroom, Felt Safety, Vulnerability, and Empathy
Week 14-16: Coping Skills, Screening Tools and Compassion Fatigue
Brene Brown video on Empathy in class discussion
Book: It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn Students will read Ch 1, 2, and 3 (chapter a week)
Week 8-10: Impact of Trauma and Adversity on Mental Health "Chicken or the Eggs"
Week 11-13:Signs and Symptoms of Mental Health
Workbook: The Compassion Fatigue Workbook by Francoise Mathieu
Week 5: Personal Genogram class discussion and independent assignment
Youtube video: 2.
Read literature prior to class (entrance and exit ticket activity)
"Exploring the therapeutic effectiveness of genograms in family therapy"
Book: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog by Bruce Perry MD, PhD and Maia Szalavitz (students with read the introduction and choose two chapters to read and discuss on a weekly discussion board) Week 9 and 10
Week 12: Explore Stigma, Prejudice and Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness, read literature "Structural Levels of Mental Illness Stigma and Discrimination" and "Lessons to be learned from the oldest community psychiatric services in the world: Geel in Belguim" and write a self reflection paper about your own experiences about mental health stigma
Week 8: Ted Talk by Nadine Burke Harris "How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime"
Week 8: ACE's survey and score with written reflection assignment
Week 9:Types of Trauma class discussion and discussion post due
Week 10: Breath, Be Still and Kind to yourself this topic can be triggering, review self care. Students will be given time in class to explore healthy coping skills vs unhealthy coping skills
Week 9: YouTube video "Trauma and the Brain"
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Week 7: Attachment Style Class Discussion
The Attachment Project (https://www.attachmentproject.com/attachment-style-quiz/)
NPR (https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079587715/whats-your-attachment-style-quiz)
Week 6: Interview a family member assignment
Week 7: Let's check in with ourselves...how are we feeling about what we have uncovered in our own genetics/family history? This will be a scheduled individual meeting with the professor
Week 8: read original article about ACE's "Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
Brene Brown: The Power of vulnerability TedTalk and self reflection assignment
Felt Safety in our Classroom discussion and group rules
Week 2- 4: Mental health, what is it all about?
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Week 2: Read article from APA Student mental health is in crisis. Campuses are rethinking their approach
Group Activity: explore and location mental health supports on campus and/or in the community
Week 3: Class discussion about mental health
Week 4: Review the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website "mental health"
Assignment: Write about 10-15 facts you found and why they are important to know about?
Week 16 Compassion Fatigue The Edge of Compassion By Francoise Mathieu and read Ch 1, 2, and 4 and discussion topic on discussion board, final paper and scheduled "check in" with professor for low impact debrief
Week 14: How People Cope: Tedx Talk: The Power of Addiction and the Addiction of Power and read NIDA, 2023 article Marijuana and hallucinogen use, binge drinking reached historic highs among adults 35 to 50. Stages of Change article
Self reflection assignment: Explore ways you or the people around you cope with stress, mental health struggles and/or ways you've overcome and any difficulty in making changes
Week 13:Group therapy style classroom discussion "checking in with ourselves"
Week 11: Classroom discussion about signs and symptoms of mental health
Review the National Alliance of Mental Health website and watch the Youtube video Know the Warning Signs
Week 15: Exploring Screening tools in class discussions and group activity/role play (PHQ-9, GAD-7, AUDIT, ASQ, and EDE-Q)