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 suicide-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 Characteristics 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/