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1. Mental Health and
Well-being in
Middle and Late
Adolescence
Module 7

2. Lesson Objectives
At the end of this module, learners will be able
to:
1.Interpret the concepts of mental health and
psychological well-being in everyday
observations about mental health problems
during adolescence
2.Identify their own vulnerabilities
3.Create a plan to stay mentally healthy
during adolescence

3. Motivation Question
How many have you been sick last
year?
Why were you sick?
How long were you sick?

4. Game: Fact or Myth
1. Mental health problems don't
affect you
MYTH
• 1 of 5 people worldwide suffers mental
health problems according to World
Health Organization

5. Game: Fact or Fiction
2. About 20% of the world’s children
and adolescents have mental
disorders or problems
FACT
• About half of mental disorders begin
before the age of 14. Similar types of
disorders are being reported across
cultures like neuropsychiatric disorders
(depression, anxiety, ADHD)

6. Game: Fact or Fiction
3. Mental and substance use
disorders are the leading cause of
disability worldwide
FACT
• About 23% of all years lost because of
disability is caused by mental and
substance use disorders

7. Game: Fact or Fiction
4. Suicide is the least committed
disorder every year worldwide
MYTH
• About 800,000 people worldwide commit
suicide every year. This corresponds to
one death by suicide every 40 seconds.
• Suicide is the second leading cause of
death among 15 to 29 years old.

8. Game: Fact or Fiction
5. War and disasters have a large
impact on mental health and
psychosocial well-being
FACT
• Rates of mental disorders tend to double
after emergencies.

9. Game: Fact or Fiction
5. War and disasters have a large
impact on mental health and
psychosocial well-being
FACT
• Rates of mental disorders tend to double
after emergencies.

10. Game: Fact or Fiction
6. Prevention doesn't work. It is
impossible to prevent mental illnesses.
MYTH
• Prevention of mental, emotional, and
behavioral disorders focuses on addressing
known risk factors such as exposure to
trauma that can affect the chances that
children, youth, and young adults will develop
mental health problems

11. Game: Fact or Fiction
7. Mental disorders are untreatable
MYTH
• Despite the existence of effective treatments
for mental disorders, there is a belief that they
are untreatable or that people with mental
disorders are difficult, not intelligent or
incapable of making decisions.

12. Game: Fact or Fiction
8. There are few agencies who work for
mental health
FACT
• Governments, donors and groups
representing mental health service users and
their families need to work together to increase
mental health services
• We still lack services. There are limited
rehabilitations and centers but at least we

13. Game: Fact or Fiction
Processing:
1.What can you say about the facts
that you got about Mental Health?
2.Do you have an idea what mental
illness is? Elaborate

14. Reading Activity
To be able to correct further your
perceptions, read the story in page
45 entitled
CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT
MENTAL HEALTH

15. Strategies for becoming a
Critical Viewer of Media
• Media messages about body shape and size
will affect the way we feel about ourselves and
our bodies, only if we let them.
• Being critical viewer protects our self-esteem
and body image
• When we effectively recognize and analyze the
media messages that influence us, we
remember that the media’s definitions of
beauty and success do not have to define our
self-image or potential.

16. Remember about Media
Messages
• All media images and messages are
constructions.
• Advertisements are created to do one thing:
convince you to buy or support a specific product
or service.
• To convince you to buy a specific product or
service, advertisers will often construct an
emotional experience that looks like reality
• Advertisers create their message based on what
they think you will want to see and what they think
will affect you and compel you to buy their

17. Ask yourself
Does any of this sound familiar?
Who among you used this already?
• “I’m too tall”,
• “I’m too short”,
• “I’m too skinny”
• “If only I were shorter or taller”,
• had curly or straight hair; had a smaller
nose; or had longer legs

18. Self-esteem and Body
Esteem
• Self-esteem is about how much you feel
you are worth – and how much you feel
other people value you
• Body image is how you view your
physical self – including whether you
feel you are attractive and whether
others like your looks.

19. What influences a Person’s
Self-Esteem?
1. Puberty and Development
2. Media Images and Other Outside
Influences
3. Families and school

20. Common Eating Disorders
1. Anorexia
– Fear of weight gain and
a distorted view of their
body size and image.
They eat very little and
can become
dangerously
underweight.

21. Common Eating Disorders
2. Bulimia
– Similar to anorexia;
people might want to
binge eat (eat to
excess) and then try to
compensate in extreme
ways, such as making
themselves throw up or
exercise all the time, to
avoid weight gain.

22. Other food-related disorders
• Avoidant/restrictive food
intake disorder
• Binge eating
• Body image disorders
• Food phobias
* Becoming more and more
commonly identified

23. How ads affect our self-
esteem?

24. Writing Activity
Name some ads that appear on TV,
billboards, the internet.
1. What m essages do these ads give to
middle adolescents like you?
2. How have these ads affected your
lifestyle, self-esteem, and values?
3. How has this lesson changed your
perception about ads?

25. Mental Health Challenges

26. Mental Health Challenges
1. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD)
• It is a pretty common and can make it
hard to focus and sit still, makes it
hard to finish things, makes thoughts
jumps around.
• They can learn to control their
thoughts and bodies by figuring out
how can they focus
• People with this disorder can do better

27. ADHD

28. Mental Health Challenges
2. Anxiety (Panic Disorder)
• Feeling anxious and nervous is common.
But a person diagnosed with an Anxiety
Disorder will have these feelings
suddenly and often.
• These strong, sudden feelings of stress
or fear are called “panic attacks.”
• A panic attack can make your chest or
stomach hurt, your heart speed up, make
you feel afraid, dizzy, or feel like you
can’t breath.

29. Anxiety (Panic Attack)

30. Mental Health Challenges
3. Autism Spectrum Disorder
• The way the brain understands the world
• People diagnosed with autism can have a hard
time talking about their feelings, understanding
people’s actions, and being social.
• They can be sensitive of being touched; hugging
them can be scary and uncomfortable
• They can be very good in math or music

31. Autism Spectrum Disorder

32. Mental Health Challenges
4. Bi-polar Disorder
• changes the way people feel
emotions.
• their emotions can go from
happy to sad very quickly
• When people with bi-polar
disorder experience intense
feelings of happiness it is
called “mania.”
• When people with bi-polar
disorder feel intense sadness
and tiredness, it is called

33. Mental Health Challenges
5. Depression
• a mental health challenge
that makes people feel very
sad all the time. It can
change how you think, feel,
and act, and makes your
body sick too.
• People diagnosed with
depression may not know
why they feel so sad
• It is good to have family and close
friends to talk to and help when
things are bad, and talking to a

34. Mental Health Challenges
6. Eating Disorders
• exists when a person's
thoughts and behaviors are
focused too much on food
and body weight.
• Three common disorders:
1. Anorexia
2. Bulimia
3. Extreme overeating
• Behind the problem we see is
something bigger – a person’s
sense of self-esteem,
relationships, feelings, and how

35. Mental Health Challenges
7. Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder
(PTSD)
• feel scared even if they are
safe and there is nothing to
be afraid of
• Even when they are safe, the
feelings of fear are very real
• It takes time and hard work,
but those with PTSD can
learn ways to handle their
fears and can live healthy,

36. Mental Health Challenges
8. Schizophrenia
• makes it hard for people to
know what is real and what is
not real
• A person diagnosed with
schizophrenia can also start
to think that people are trying
to control them or read their
minds.
• Usually people do not get this
illness until their late teens or
early adulthood, and there

37. Assignment
Two of the most common among middle adolescents
are anxiety disorders and depression. Go to the
Library or browse the internet and do a research on
either one of these. Put them in your journal:
1. What are anxiety disorders/depression?
2. Who gets anxiety disorders/depression and how common
are they?
3. Describe some of the symptoms of anxiety
disorders/depression.
4. List and briefly explain some of the main types of anxiety
disorders/depression.
5. What type of treatment is available for people
experiencing anxiety disorders/depression?
6. What other kinds of support can help a person with

38. Situation Analysis
“Your friend isn’t acting like his old self. He seems
really down, and has been doing strange things like
giving his favorite things away. He recently told you
that he thought the people he knew would be better
off without him around and that he’s thought of killing
himself. After he tells you, he asks you not to tell
anyone else about what he has said.”
Guide Questions:
1. Do you think he has a mental problem?
2. Is he in trouble?
3. What should you do?

39. Mental Health Issues
Having access to reliable information on positive mental
health and mental illness is crucial for adolescents.
According to statistics:
• Mental health problems affect one in five young people at
any given time.
• Mental illness is second only to heart disease as the
leading cause of disability worldwide.
• The first symptoms of mental illness generally appear
between the ages of 15–24.
• An estimated 50% of young people with mental illness
are not getting help.
• Fear of stigma and the resulting discrimination
discourages individuals and families from getting the help

40. Mental Health Issues
Interesting Fact!
• People diagnosed with mental illness will also have a
substance use disorder. When people have both, we call
it a concurrent disorder.
• Sometimes drug use is a form of self-medication for
mental health problems, other times the substance use
might have caused the mental health problem
• Drugs will never be a good thing to do, regardless of
reasons.

41. Stress-Vulnerability Theory
Vulnerability
• There is a genetic characteristic to mental illness, but
just because a family member has a mental health
problem, it doesn’t mean that you will too. Sometimes
mental illness happens right “out of the blue”.
Stress
• Stress can trigger the development of a mental
illness, but stress alone doesn’t cause the mental
illness unless you have a vulnerability gene.

42. Seatwork
Perform the Activity 1 : Signs of Trouble: Depression
in your journal notebooks. TEST YOUR MOOD.

43. Suicide Prevention
Suicide is a leading cause of
death among young people
ages 15-24. At least 90% of
those who die by suicide have a
mental illness.
If a friend mentions thoughts of
suicide or self-harm, you NEED
to tell an adult

44. Support Strategies /
Community Mental Health
Resources
• Encourage the person to seek help and support
from an adult.
• Spend time with the person, listen to his/her
concerns.
• Be hopeful; help them feel like their life will get
better.
• Stand by them.
• Learn as much as you can about mental illness so
that you understand what is going on for them.
• If you are a close friend or family member of
someone with a mental health problem, make sure
that you get help as well.

45. Help How-To’s
1. Reach out to people you trust
– When dealing with mental health or emotional problems,
it’s important not to go at it alone.
– Healing is a combination of helping yourself and letting
others help you.
– Think of all the people you can turn to for support:
Friends, Parents and other family members, someone
who seems like parents to your, other adults who advice
you
2. The more you know, the easier it is
– Libraries are an excellent source of information about
mental health.
– Nothing is worse than nothing

46. Healthy Eating and Mental
Health
• Healthy eating nourishes the body, including the brain, and
supports mental health through:
– Improved overall health and vitality
– Increased ability to concentrate
– Reduced irritability and mood swings
– Lowered risk of mental illness
• There is some evidence that healthy eating may be a
factor in lowered risk of depression and improved
ability to deal with stress and anxiety

47. Physical Activity and Mental
Health
• Physical activity can make you feel good physically and
build confidence.
• Evidence suggests that physical activity may contribute to
improved mood and increase self-esteem, self-confidence,
and sense of control.
• Getting physically active may:
– Make you feel better physically and feel better about
yourself
– Improve your mood
– Improve self-esteem
– Reduce physical reactions to stress.
– Help you sleep better.
– Give you more energy.

48. Sleep and Mental Health
• Most teens need 9-11 hours of sleep every night. Problems
from not being fully rested include:
– Irritability
– Difficulty concentrating and learning
– Don’t move information from short-term to long-term
memory as well
– Falling asleep in class
– Mood swings and behavior problems
– More accident prone
– More prone to depression

49. Suggestions for a good night
sleep
• Stay away from stimulants like caffeine in the evening,
including chocolate, colas, and other caffeinated beverages.
These delay sleep and increase night waking.
• Do not go to bed hungry, have a light snack.
• Turn off any TV’s, computes, or cellphones, or just do not
have electronics in the bedroom.
• Disengage from any stimulating activities like exercise,
computer games or talking on the phone for at least 30
minutes prior to bedtime.
• Reading is much more relaxing and may help you fall
asleep.
• Taking a warm bath or shower helps prepare the body for
sleep.
• If you are not feeling rested and functioning at your best

50. Week-long Assignment
Day Target
Time to
Sleep
Time
Went
to
Sleep
What I was
doing before I
went to bed?
(from 6:00 PM
until the time
you slept)
Did this
affect
what
time
you
went to
sleep?
What
could
have you
done
better?
Adviser /
Teachers’
Signature
and Note
1. Monday
09-02-2019
8:00 PM 9:00
PM
6:00 PM – went
to classmates
house for
assignment
7:00 PM to 9:00
PM – playing
mobile games
Yes I could
have slept
early if I
didn’t play
mobile
games
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Emotional Intelligence
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