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Mental Health Journals WritingMental Health Journals Writing
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Health Smart Virginia
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8th - 10th
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Mental Health Journals

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Eight prompts, designed to accompany the Health Smart series of lessons, provide high schoolers an opportunity to reflect on and learn from the issues raised by the various activities.

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Concepts

stress management, social-emotional learning, mental health, healthy habits, depression, making decisions, consequences, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, alcohol use, addiction, suicide

Instructional Ideas

  • Have class members create a special notebook for the materials generated in the series and for the mental health journal reflections
  • Distribute the list at the beginning of the series of lessons
  • Use the prompts as an exit ticket at the end of each lesson

Classroom Considerations

  • Make sure pupils are aware of laws that require school personnel to report safety concerns

Pros

  • Each journal offers writers a series of prompts from which to choose

Cons

  • None

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