Teaching Elementary School Health Education/Mental and Emotional Health

Introduction

Mental and Emotional Health is the area of health that focuses on:

• developing good character
• interacting in ways that help create a positive social-emotional environment
• developing healthful personality characteristics
• choosing behaviors to promote a healthy mind
• expressing emotions in healthful ways
• seeking help if feeling depressed
• using sucide-prevention strategies
• coping with loss and grief in healthful ways
• being resilient during difficult times

Each of these health goals have several components.

I Will Develop Good Character

• Values and Character
• Self Esteem
• Developing Good Character and Improving Self-Esteem

I will Interact in ways that Help Create a Positive Social-Emotional Environment

• Social-Emotional Environment
• Social-Emotional Environment and Health Status
• Strategies to Improve the Social-Emotional Environment

I will Develop Healthful Personality Characterisitcs

• Personality (at Wikiversity)
• Personality Characteristics that Promote Good Health

I will Choose Behaviors to Promote a Healthy Mind

• Mental Alertness and Mental Health

I will Express Emotions in Healthful Ways

• Emotions and the Mind-Body Connection
• Anger Management Skills

I will Use Stress-Management Skills

• Understanding How Stress Affects Health Status
• Stress-Management Skills

I will Seek Help if I Feel Depressed

• Recognizing Childhood and Adolescent Depression
• Treatment for Depression

I will Cope with Loss and Grief in Healthful Ways

• Loss and Grief