May is Mental Health Month since its inception back in 1949. This year's theme is "Live Your Life Well," sponsored by Mental Health America.
It challenges us to promote whole health and wellness in homes, communities, and schools, and inform those who don't believe that it's attainable.
Every day, Americans are affected by the myriad challenges, stresses, and demands on their lives. And every day, they seek help in responding to them. Stress can take a huge toll on a person's health, mood, productivity, and relationships, but specific evidence-based tools can help counterbalance these effects.
The good news is there are tested and effective tools that are readily available and free that anyone can use to help them cope better and improve their well-being.
The heart of the "Live Your Life Well" program (full details) is the ten research-based, straightforward tools provided, and ways to apply them in everyday life.
From relaxation techniques to journaling exercises to simple ways to get better sleep and improve eating habits, the materials offer a wide range of resources to build resiliency and well-being.
The materials focus on these mental health issues: Anxiety Disorders; Children's Mental Health; Depression; Bipolar Disorder; Eating Disorders; Older Adult Mental Health; Recovery; Schizophrenia; and Suicide.
BookCart Learning Activity
ProQuest has created a BookCart learning activity to help your students learn more about Astronomy and telescopes for exploring the universe: "Mental Illness and Treatment."
This and all ProQuest model BookCarts are complete one-stop learning activities for your students. This saves time for more teaching and learning that too often is consumed in both non-productive searching and both teachers and students having to evaluate source relevancy and credibility.
Each Cart provides examples of essential questions that help students to develop critical thinking skills as inquiry-based learning evolves to the mainstream. Each Cart can help teachers to differentiate instruction to meet the varying needs of all their students.
BookCart learning activities include everything that students need for successful inquiry-based learning in one place. Contrast this to traditional research assignments where students have to waste learning time in corralling and organizing (or not) all the separate instructions and resources.
Click the BOOKCART ADMIN tab at the top of the Teacher Edition.
Click the PROQUEST CARTS tab.
Type "Mental Illness and Treatment" in the SEARCH box
Click the COPY icon (middle one) in the ACTIONS column to the right of this title.
Click RETURN TO MY LOCAL CARTS.
Librarians or teachers can edit this BookCart to customize it for their students:
Click the new BookCart TITLE with the prefix COPY OF.
Delete "Copy of" and then type your name in the AUTHOR boxes and your initials in the EMAIL box (required info).
Option: Edit any ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS for your students in the DESCRIPTION box.
Option: Edit the existing STUDENT DIRECTIONS in the Description box.
Scroll down and click SAVE.
Click RETURN TO MY LOCAL CARTS.
Traditional Search Learning Activity
Assign students to write a report of at least 150 words (or a presentation of at least seven slides) that cites at least four resources and addresses the following essential questions for critical thinking (you can add to or substitute others):
What are three major mental illnesses--describe them?
Why is mental illness increasing and what factors contribute to this?
How can medical professionals tell if someone is mentally ill?
What are some of the successful treatments being used to cure or alleviate mental illness?
Research Pathfinder
Type "Mental Health Disorders" in the Search box > And type "mental" in the Document Title box > Search
