Full Description
Understanding Mental Health across Educational Contexts provides an overview of mental health and mental health disorders from a Canadian classroom perspective. Providing definitions and current understandings of mental health challenges and disorders commonly found in K-12 classrooms, this text equips future educators with a toolbox of strategies and resources that they can use inside the classroom.Recognition and support for students and educators struggling with mental health or a mental health disorder has been growing in demand, and this text addresses the importance of this conversation in education while focusing on the interplay of student, teacher, and family. Divided into two sections on core concepts and practical applications, this edited collection covers topics such as mental health disorders frequently encountered within school settings and their relationships with academic achievement, technology, neurodiversity, and career development; Indigenous, queer, and anti-racist practice and praxis; educator mental health and wellness; traumainformed teaching; and creating mentally healthy classrooms.
This essential text is foundational for future educators and those in courses covering child and youth care, exceptional learners, early childhood education, or social work. Courses covering mental health, counselling, or psychology will also find value in this reference guide for common challenges faced by young people or families.
Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroductionUnderstanding Mental Health, Mental Health Disorders, and Mental Health Literacy
Part I: Considerations for Mental Health and Wellness in Schools
Chapter 1 Our Ancestors and Mental Health: Engaging in Meaningful Dialogue on Mental Health and Well-being from Indigenous Knowledge Sources
Chapter 2 Queering the Canadian Classroom
Chapter 3 From Interest Convergence to Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in Education: The Edification of a Teaching Praxis
Chapter 4 Centring Educator Mental Health and Wellness in Education
Chapter 5 Mental Health Circle of Support: Students, Families, and Educators Working Together
Chapter 6 Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Mental Health: A Neuropsychological Perspective
Chapter 7 ADHD and ASD : How Understanding Neurological Underpinnings Can Help Mediate Classroom Challenges
Chapter 8 Mental Health Challenges and Disorders Commonly Encountered in School Settings
Part II: Practical Applications
Chapter 9 Relationships Between Academic Achievement and Mental Health: They Both Matter
Chapter 10 Incorporating Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in the Classroom
Chapter 11 Technology and Mental Health: Classroom Considerations
Chapter 12 Getting Gritty: Resilience, Grit, and Growth Mindset in Teacher Mental Health
Chapter 13 Career Development as an Inclusive Approach to Mental Health Promotion in Schools: A Culturally Responsive Teacher-Delivered Program
Chapter 14 Welcoming the Weird and Wonderful: Creating Classrooms Environments that Support Neurodiversity
Chapter 15 Promoting Mental Health and Wellness in Educational Contexts
Appendix
Glossary
Contributor Biographies
