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Center for Mental Health in Schools

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Center for Mental Health in Schools

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, Kindergarten

Course, Subject

Family and Consumer Sciences, Financial & Resource Management, Child Development
Related Academic Standards
11.1.3.G 11.1.3.G
Identify the services that communities provide for individuals and families.
11.4.3.B 11.4.3.B
Identify health and safety needs for children at each stage of child development.
11.4.9.B 11.4.9.B
Evaluate health and safety hazards relating to children at each stage of child development.
11.4.12.B 11.4.12.B
Analyze current issues in health and safety affecting children at each stage of child development.
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  • Big Ideas
    Children grow and learn in understandable observable patterns that can be recognized and optimized through consistent and stable family and community environments.
    Responsible consumers use effective resource management to accomplish individual, family and community goals.
    Awareness of self provides a foundation for an understanding of people and engagement in social, personal, and academic environments.
    Building and maintaining positive relationships is central to success in school and life.
    Personal, social, and academic success requires a belief in oneself, a sense of purpose, and optimism.
    Recognizing thoughts, feelings, and perspectives of self and others enables one to cooperate, communicate, and constructively interact with others.
    Self management and responsibility support participation in social, personal and academic environments.
  • Concepts
    Communities provide services for individuals and families.
    Current global health and safety issues impact children at various developmental stages.
    Health and safety hazards need to be evaluated at each stage of development.
    Health and safety needs of children change at each stage of development.
    Acting consistently within personal boundaries, rights, and privacy needs contributes to effective self management.
    Active listening enhances positive relationships
    Awareness of Personal Attitudes and Beliefs is critical to understanding oneself and how one adapts over time.
    Awareness of Personal Strengths and Interests provides a foundation for setting priorities, meeting needs, and addressing challenges.
    Communication skills are critical self-management tools in social, personal, and academic environments.
    Cooperation and collaboration are essential elements in working together constructively.
    Coping Skills are important in managing behavior in constructive ways.
    Coping skills are necessary for managing life events.
    Effective communication assists in an understanding of self and others.
    Emotions affect personal decisions and actions.
    Empathy / sympathy increase one’s ability to understand and appreciate differences.
    Establishment of short and long-term goals provides for purposeful actions towards achieving those goals.
    Expressing emotions, thoughts and feelings is essential in both intra- and interpersonal growth
    Identification of personal and social roles is the foundation for effective engagement.
    Knowledge of how interests, abilities, values, and personality relate to accomplishment of personal, social, educational, and career goals.
    Managing one’s emotions and impulses can impact the outcome of situations.
    Managing relationships supports both intra- and interpersonal development.
    Personal values, attitudes, and beliefs serve as a foundation for goal setting.
    Perspective frames how one interacts with others.
    Recognition of diversity serves to inform how one responds to and interacts with others.
  • Competencies
    Compare and contrast global health and safety laws dealing with children.
    Create a safety checklist. (e.g. classroom, home, neighborhood, playground)
    Demonstrate personal health and safety behaviors.
    Describe and predict health and safety hazards relating to children at each stage of development.
    Evaluate current technology practices concerning children and teens.
    Examine popular toys and identify positive and negative aspects of construction and safety.
    Explain confidentiality laws in regards to general information, health records, attendance, medication administration and accident reports.
    Identify how contagious diseases can be spread.
    Identify people, places, organizations and government agencies that provide information and/or services in the community.
    Identify safety hazards around the house.
    Research and present current issues in health and safety affecting children at each stage of development.
    Suggest how to manage physical space to maintain a learning environment that is safe, healthy and encourages physical activity.
    Demonstrate constructive ways to minimize impulsivity and deal with upsetting emotions.
    Demonstrate persistence and perseverance in acquiring knowledge and skills and responding to life events.
    Demonstrate the ability to convey one’s thoughts, feelings, and perspectives using effective listening and speaking skills during social interactions.
    Demonstrate the ability to identify and assess verbal and nonverbal cues.
    Demonstrate the ability to prevent, manage, and resolve conflicts in constructive ways.
    Develop an action plan to set and achieve realistic goals.
    Establish connections with others of varying backgrounds or cultures.
    Exercise self-advocacy in the expression of one’s strengths and needs.
    Explain how personal strengths may inform personal preferences and needs.
    Explain the roles one plays within various contexts and the expected attitudes, beliefs, and actions associated with each.
    Identify alternative ways of achieving goals.
    Identify how personal attitudes and beliefs impact one’s behavior.
    Identify personal and social roles.
    Identify personal attitudes and beliefs.
    Identify personal strengths and interests.
    label, and express one’s emotions, thoughts, and feelings in varying situations.
    Make associations between one’s personal experiences and the experiences of others.
    Make the connection between how one feels and how one behaves.
    Monitor and adjust one’s behavior in order to play and work cooperatively.
    Recognize
    Recognize and appreciate individual and group similarities and differences.
    Recognize and name one’s emotions.
    Recognize different home, school, and community resources that support intrapersonal growth and development.
    Reflect and identify options and related consequences, both positive and negative, before expressing an emotion and/or taking action.
    Respond and adapt appropriately to personal and environmental cues
    Set short and long term goals.
    Understand causes of one’s feelings/emotions/behaviors.
    Use active listening skills as a means to identify the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others.
    Use social cues to inform the expression of one’s emotions, thoughts, and feelings.
    Utilize a realistic self-perception in the planning and monitoring of goals.

Description

The UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools website provides linkages between schools and community service agencies to enhance the well-being of young people and their families.

Resource(s)

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/
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