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Each curricula below may be used by community health officials and school leaders to implement universal preventive intervention through psychoeducation and communicate clear referral procedures. Following this, we encourage communities to:
- Initiate a wellness council with public and independent school leadership to share their curriculum content on building resilience, symptom recognition and referral procedures with parents and leaders from other community programs, including youth clergy.
- Support teen leadership and open communication with adults.
- Evaluate outcomes.
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Preventing Depression: A Toolkit For Schools
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The Preventing Depression: A Toolkit for Schools manual was created based on the work originated through An Adolescent Mental Health and Wellness Curriculum: A Starter Kit for Schools. It focuses on the implementation of a program specifically designed to address depression prevention for students in grades 7-12. Some factors associated with the development of depression are beyond the scope of what schools are able to target. However, there are many skills that adolescents can use to help bolster their emotional well-being, and these can be incorporated into every school day. We can prevent emotional disturbances from becoming more serious crises by teaching students to actively employ recognition and coping skills.
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Preventing Depression: A Toolkit for Schools is comprehensive - it includes information about preparing a school system for initiating a depression prevention program, provides staff development exercises, student and classroom activities, and resources to assist staff in working with students who need more individualized mental health services.
The goal is to provide a tool that describes how to create a program from onset to finish and includes information relevant to a wide spectrum of students ranging from those whose needs are only for prevention, to those who confront daily struggles to succeed in school while battling a mental illness. The contents of this manual are divided into three sections: preparation, curriculum and evaluation.
Please click on the red cover image to view the Contents section of the manual. For details or to order, email the editor directly at nadja.reilly@childrens.harvard.edu.
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Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP)
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"We want everyone to understand that depression is a treatable medical illness." Karen L. Swartz, M.D. Director, Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP)
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Editor:
Karen L. Swartz, MD,
Director,
Adolescent Depression Awareness Program,
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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The ADAP curriculum provides high quality, up-to-date information on Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder.
This educational program is for all high school students, teachers and parents with the goal to increase
depression literacy, which includes:
Identifying symptoms of depression
Understanding the process of medical decision making
Seeing parallels between depression and other medical illnesses
Realizing that no one is to blame
Recognizing suicide as a potential consequence of depression
Understanding that depression is a treatable medical illness
ADAP's message is hopeful, emphasizing the importance of treatment and seeking help. The curriculum
stresses the need to share concerns with a parent, teacher or counselor so that appropriate action can be
taken. The two key messages reinforced throughout the program are:
Depression is a treatable medical illness
Tell an adult if you have concerns about yourself or a friend
Please click on the blue and yellow ADAP cover image to view the Contents section of the manual. For details or to order, email the editor directly at kswartz1@jhmi.edu
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An Adolescent Mental Health & Wellness Curriculum:
A Starter Kit For Schools
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This is the original manual developed in collaboration by Children's Hospital Boston and McLean Hospital for existing staff at any school to implement.
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An Adolescent Mental Health & Wellness Curriculum
A Starter Kit For Schools |
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Chapters 1 & 2 discuss the preparation phase and include school assessment instruments, the resource/referral checklist and the Class Emotional Safety Assessment to determine the appropriate curriculum activity level. Three levels of activities are provided in various curriculum topics-
- Stress: Causes, Consequences and Management (Chapter 3)
- Substance Use, Abuse, and Dependence (Chapter 4)
- Depression in Adolescents (Chapter 5)
The starter kit manual is available without charge as a download file by clicking on the white cover image above. For details or to order bound copies, please email the editors directly at JGold1@partners.org or david.demaso@childrens.harvard.edu |
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