A y9 mental wellbeing unit
Published on Mar 30, 2016
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What does positive mental health look like?
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What are mental health difficulties?
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Students develop competencies for mental wellness - through a strength based approach
A strengths-based approach has a simple premise – identify the factors that help most young people to lead happy and productive lives, and support them. Rather than having a problem orientation and a risk focus, a strengths-based approach works at developing the factors that protect young people.
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Strengths are protective factors, and strengths-based programmes need to find ways to mobilise them. If we believe young people are inherently ‘at promise’ rather than ‘at risk’, the task of programmes becomes to help young people find and build on the strengths in themselves, their families and environments for optimal outcomes and positive behaviours. Protective processes, such as caring relationships, high expectations and opportunities for meaningful participation and contribution will be the means by which this can be achieved.
Risk factors vs Protective factors
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