Creating a mental health and wellbeing award: how to get it right for every child
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CELCIS Education Conference: The Good Shepherd Centre, in conjunction with the SQA, have designed and launched a mental health qualification that aims to help young people and learners understand more about their own mental health and wellbeing.
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Creating a mental health and wellbeing award: how to get it right for every child
- 1. Developing the SQA award in mental health and wellbeing
- 3. How did we get here?
- 8. Understanding factors that may influence mental health
- 9. Understanding Mental Health Issues
- 10. Coping Coping Strategies and Resilience
Editor's Notes
- The story of the Cherokee Indian and his grandson.
- How we started this – view of psychology – large prevalence of mental health difficulties but stigma and shame inhibited engagement. Approached education – role is teaching children life skills; surely one of the best life skills is managing mental health
- Analogy – if have sore throat, what do you do? If have low mood, what do you do?
- Importance of Hope – need to build coping mechanisms not stigmatise ACE does not recognise adversities such as poverty, bullying, immigrations, homelessness We did not talk about this before because of stigma – educational bodies have a key role in addressing stigma but referring on to formal service gives the message that e.g. teachers can’t cope – it is too much for them. If teachers can’t cope, how will I?
- Although this course has appeared politically at the right time...it has been a work in progress for much longer . Its development was based on a life time of work experience across a range of practitioners including teachers, social workers, ed psychologists, and wellbeing staff who all understood that the biggest barrier to learning and change is mental health and wellbeing. This wasn’t about giving a problem a label or diagnosis , its not about fixing young people or adults its about giving them the tools to understand themselves and how to be well within the context of their life. If you think about that statement that is a pretty big thing to learn because it means understanding our social world and how we interact within it in a much more meaningful way, it means not being passive and being much more aware and conscious of how we exist and how we can live well with what we have.
- When we embarked on this SQA put out a consultation questionnaire based on the initial ideas of the QDT...over 1800 responses where received over 1 weekend...over half where young people....unprecedented.
- This award is not about mental illness, it is about learning to be emotionally healthy and understand what are emotionally healthy responses within certain contexts. Social, personal, environmental, cultural influences inc the online world.
- This unit supports understanding of self and how our bodies react and respond to stimulus and how this then manifest in our behaviours. It helps develop an understanding of what is a normal response and what then could be viewed as problematic or an illness.
- The unit is about recognising that as we grow and develop and experience life we learn. If we think about good physical health we learn to be healthy we need to exercise regularly, eat a balanced diet and moderate our alcohol intake e. G. control my love of cake and chocolate. But every now and then i might fall of the wagon...its not the end of the world.....but if i continue to live on cake and wine for a prolonged period of time i will eventually stop being able to function!! We must take the same approach to mental health ...learning from crisis is beneficial as it supports resilience, self care is essential so that when a crisis does occur we have good general levels of wellbeing that enables us to recover more quickly and coping strategies are crucial as they help us climb that hill when we need to. When we consider how much time and money people invest in physical health eg slimming clubs, personal trainers, gym memberships, beauty consultations etc in comparison to the care we take of our mental health there is a stark difference. There needs to be cultural shift... And it begins with educating ourselves.
- We are now going to try our some of the tools that have been created to help facilitate the learning experience within each of the units.