Teaching Plan (Grp2: Mental Health)

PURPOSE: To provide young adults ages 18 to 25 with enough information about mental health and
its issues.

GOAL: The audience will be able to apply positive health strategies to deal with mental health
issues.

Objectives Content Outline Method of Time Resources Method of

instruction Allotted Evaluation

Following a 60 I. Mental Health

minute
teaching i. Definition of
session, the Mental Health
audience will ii. Importance of
be able to: Mental Health
iii. Mental health
issues
⮚ Define and
describe
mental ❖ Types and
health and symptoms Discussion 25mins Power point Question and
mental
health 1. Depression.
presentatio Answer
issues. 2. Anxiety n and info
(Cognitive) disorders  graphs
3. Obsessive-
compulsive
disorder (OCD)
4. Bipolar disorder
5. Post-traumatic
stress disorder
(PTSD)
6. Schizophrenia
7. Personality
Disorder

❖ Causes

1. Abuse
2. Trauma
3. Discrimination
iv. Frequency of
mental health
conditions.
 II. How the stigma
⮚ Understand
around mental
mental health is harming
health and people. Visual Media 10mins Video Post Testing
well-being
i. Let’s talk about presentatio
in a
mental health: n
consistent
and Meredith Ackley
accessible
manner.
(Cognitive)

III. 10 Basic health

⮚ To develop
habits
a good
grasp of
how to take Think-Pair-Share
care of our
i. Individually, the
own mental audience will
health. consider ten
(Affective) essential health
Active learning 10mins Group Observation
practices, then
work in pairs to strategy discussion
share their (Sharing)
thoughts and
compare and
contrast them.
Then two pairs
join together to
form a small
group to come
up with an
agreement on
ten basic health
practices as a
group.

IV. Recap some of

⮚ To develop
the suggestions
a greater
understand i. How to manage
mental health. Discussion 5mins PowerPoint Question and
ing of how
presentatio Answer
we can
n
control our
feelings on
a daily
basis.
 (Affective)

V. Application
⮚ Apply
positive i. What would you
health do if you noticed
strategies a friend was
to deal with suffering from a
mental illness? Active learning 10mins Subjective Question and
mental strategy view Answer
health (Sharing)
issues. ii. What would you
(Affective) do if you saw
someone
making fun of a
person with a
mental illness?

References

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https://www.thedailymile.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Lesson-1-Presentation.pdf