A Starter Kit for Schools - Promoting mental health and ...
An Adolescent Mental Health & Wellness Curriculum
A Starter Kit for Schools
Second Edition Editors
David Ray DeMaso, M.D. & Joseph Gold, M.D.
Copyright ? 2006 Children's Hospital Boston and McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
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Acknowledgements
The purpose of this manual is to help adolescents acquire the words and the questions they need to make better decisions in the area of mental health. Regardless of age, people make better decisions when they have accurate information. We thank Bruce M. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., President and Psychiatrist-in-Chief Emeritus, McLean Hospital and William R. Beardslee, M.D., Academic Chairman, Children's Hospital Boston for allowing this collaborative project a sufficient priority for their specialists and staff to participate. Although more time-intensive, a collaborative project helps to eliminate conflicting information for teachers. We are grateful to everyone listed in the Contributor's section but wish to specifically mention Cynthia Kaplan, Ph.D., of McLean Hospital and Caroline Watts, Ed.D., of Children's Hospital Boston for extraordinary devotion to this project.
The contributors practiced their science with many school leaders and countless students before participating in this project. We are especially grateful to Rev. F. Washington Jarvis III, Headmaster Emeritus of The Roxbury Latin School, and to Paul E. Sugg, Jr., Dean of Students. Always true to the words of the School Catalogue, they acted "...to allow for a fuller investigation of issues of mental health such as stress and depression."
We thank Robert W. Anthony for bringing together the doctors and the teachers to better define basic assessment tools needed by faculty to go along with a curriculum. And for founding to distribute this manual. Now that both his sons are in their twenties, he confirms that the hardest years of parenting would be much easier if adolescents had better information about mood and decision-making. In his words, "The kids talk with each other long before they confide in parents or teachers. It can only help to give kids the language and the insight to let their conversations be most helpful."
Finally, we thank CHNP, Tudor Investments and the Sidney A. Swensrud Foundation for funding this project.
David Ray DeMaso, M.D. Joseph Gold, MD
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CONTENTS Preface
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Part One of Three ? Preparation
Chapter 1) Using the Adolescent Mental Health & Wellness
Curriculum in Your School
Caroline Watts, Ed.D.
? A Rationale for Action: Why Do Something?
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? The Curriculum Philosophy
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? Needs and Resource Assessment: What Is Our Readiness? 18
? Internal and External Resources to Support Implementation 20
? Overview of the Educational Modules: How To Use Them
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? Conclusion
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? Appendices:
o 1-A) Implementation Checklist Example
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o 1-B) Survey example on Depression (staff version)
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o 1-C) Survey example on Depression (parent version)
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o 1-D) Survey example on Depression (student version)
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o 1-E) Questions for Developing School Resources List
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Chapter 2) Assessing Class Safety to Determine Curriculum Level
Ariel Botta, L.I.C.S.W., Nadja Reilly, Ph.D. and
Caroline Watts, Ed.D.
? Decide Which Level to Use with the Class
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? Appendix 2-A) Class Emotional Safety Assessment
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