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  • Year 11

Maintaining positive mental health into adulthood

This lesson will focus on how to maintain positive mental health into adulthood and what support is available to enable young people to achieve this. This lesson covers issues about mental health. If this is a sensitive topic to you, we recommend checking with a trusted adult before starting or doing the lesson with a trusted adult nearby.

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Lesson 8 of 8
  • Year 11

Maintaining positive mental health into adulthood

This lesson will focus on how to maintain positive mental health into adulthood and what support is available to enable young people to achieve this. This lesson covers issues about mental health. If this is a sensitive topic to you, we recommend checking with a trusted adult before starting or doing the lesson with a trusted adult nearby.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Importance of communication and connection
  2. Stress Bucket' analogy
  3. Mental health, referrals and treatment

Content guidance

  • Contains subject matter which individuals may find upsetting.

Supervision

Adult supervision suggested

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5 Questions

Q1.
Which of these is not a relaxation strategy recommended for those living with Social Anxiety Disorder?

Box breathing
Correct answer: Drinking alcohol or using drugs
Mindfulness
Yoga

Q2.
Mental illness is not the same as mental health.

False
Correct answer: True

Q3.
Negate is a way of making something ____________

Effective
Correct answer: Ineffective

Q4.
Moving house, financial worries, childcare issues and having a heavy workload are all examples of everyday stressors. Will these happen to most of us at some point in our life?

No
Correct answer: Yes

Q5.
Stressors are expected or ___________ challenges we face in everyday life. Which word is missing from this definition?

Correct answer: Unexpected
Unwelcome
Welcome

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7 Questions

Q1.
Which of the definitions below is the correct one for 'connection'?

___________ is the exchanging of information by speaking or writing.
Correct answer: ___________ is when a person is linked to another person or network.

Q2.
Wellbeing is the state of being comfortable and _________.

Correct answer: Happy
OK
Unhappy

Q3.
Stigma is a feeling of shame associated with a particular circumstance, quality or person. Is this definition correct?

No
Correct answer: Yes

Q4.
Which is an example of a good way to connect with people?

Correct answer: Arranging a walk with a friend once a week.
Calling someone once a month.
Contacting friends regularly through social media.
Sending an email to a friend only to share worries.

Q5.
Which of these could could add stress into our stress container?

Correct answer: All of the above
Anxiety
Being late
Moving house
Relationship worries

Q6.
Which of these would NOT help to let stress out of our container?

Healthy diet
Correct answer: Isolating yourself
Rest and relaxation

Q7.
What is always a good starting point in maintaining positive mental health?

Avoiding meeting up with friends
Not answering phone calls
Correct answer: Sharing your worries