Mental Health

Undergraduate

This course is designed to examine two fundamental questions: How do we support the mental health and wellness of everyone within an educational context, and how do we create the conditions for all students to learn and educators to thrive? Content includes evaluating established theories of mental health and illness and considering why certain theories of mental health/illness have been privileged in Canadian systems. This course engages teacher candidates in developing mental health literacy by exploring the concepts of mental health and wellness and mental illness, including the stigma that surrounds it. Teacher candidates will consider various mental health disorders that affect children and youths, focusing on developing educator sensitivity to student behaviours that may indicate a mental health challenge. The course includes discussion on how schools can help foster mental health and wellness, interventions in school settings that can help students with mental health challenges and centers the importance of educators’ mental health and wellness. (1.5 Credit Weight).