Take a new and different look at mental health. This unit invites you to think differently about life's dilemmas by taking account of the views of all concerned, especially people experiencing mental distress. It explores ideas and practice in mental health, and will appeal to a wide range of people.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading, Syllabus
This training will provide specific implementation of suicide psychoeducation, assessment, prevention and intervention, including safety planning in a manner that will both empower direct service providers of all skill and educational levels, and individuals in the community to appropriately and confidently address suicide with all client populations.
Material Type: Lecture Notes
This training will provide specific implementation of suicide psychoeducation, assessment, prevention and intervention, including safety planning in a manner that will both empower direct service providers of all skill and educational levels, and individuals in the community to appropriately and confidently address suicide with all client populations.
Material Type: Lecture Notes
Within this series of lessons, students will explore these essential questions: What basic human necessities are needed to thrive in society? How do we measure wealth? How to move from oppression to resiliency? How to move from oppression to social change? Students will examine the extent to which people pass judgment, discriminate and violate human rights in communities of color and to what extent these same communities remain resilient. Students will learn and apply their knowledge of non-violent communication to increase self awareness, school and career readiness skills in the social-emotional domain, and develop an understanding about their bio-reactions. Students will research and analyze strengths and challenges within their community. They will then identify a need and develop action steps to meet that need. We will move our instruction from broad to personal perspectives of understanding the conditions in the larger world as well as their own. By moving from the global/community perspective into the relational/historical experience and end with their personal perspective, students will develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of themselves within time and space.
Material Type: Full Course
The overall aim of the IDentifEYE project is to enhance student online safety by empowering student online resilience. The present manual introduces new elements to teachers on four levels: new topics – (online) identities and a critical view on globalized society – interactive didactics, elements of prophylactics and introductions to new technologies and in particular to Augmented Reality. These elements are customized for two different target groups: teachers teaching students aged 8-11 and teachers teaching students aged 12 – 14. The manual is available online in six languages
Material Type: Game, Reading
This article provides an overview of Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center that provides educators with free resources around the areas of equity, justice, and tolerance.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this experiential, arts-integrated unit, students explore the historical significance of religious buildings in order to understand the ways in which architecture reflects cultural belief systems.
Material Type: Lesson
This lesson helps students appreciate diversity among their peers and the diversity of immigrants all over the world. Through hands-on exercises, students will discover similarities and differences they share with other children.
Material Type: Lesson
Published on Feb 17, 2015 Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.
Material Type: Lecture
Modules related to trauma-informed practice and systems change developed through the SJSU School Work emphasize active and experiential learning. Although the modules were designed for use with intermediate (MSW program) audiences, they are easily be adapted to courses or trainings for beginning or advanced audiences. The modules may be used independently or in conjunction with existing publicly available didactic materials (see Curriculum Resource Review document for recommended materials). The modules were developed Ryan Pickrell, Principal and Owner of Family Restoration Consulting, with Laurie Drabble, Professor, San Jose State University School of Social Work, and include the following: 1) building resilience in the context of cultural humility, 2) self assessment, 3) adaptive ways of addressing trauma across cultural differences, 4) principles of trauma-informed care, 5) developmental perspectives, 6) trauma-informed systems change, and 7) creating effective and sustainable trauma-informed practice.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Lesson Plan, Reading
An article about meeting children's needs in violent times.
Material Type: Reading
An overview of different types of traumatic experiences children may be exposed to and related symptoms.
Material Type: Reading
Early educators report that one of their biggest challenges is supporting young children who have problem behavior beyond what might be expected. Some engage in behavior that is typical of a particular stage of development as they build relationships with peers and adults and learn to navigate the classroom environment. The foundation for universal practices begins with nurturing and responsive care giving that supports children in developing a positive sense of self and in engaging in relationships with others.
Material Type: Reading
