Understanding Mental Health Across Educational Context
Understanding Mental Health Across Educational Context

Understanding Mental Health Across Educational Context

Promoting Wellness in Classrooms

MYERS EDUCATION PRESSISBN:9781773384412
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Edited by Lindsey Jaber
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Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 306

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.


Acknowledgements



IntroductionUnderstanding 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


 Lindsey Jaber is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor. Dr. Jaber is also a registered psychologist in the areas of school, clinical, and counselling psychology with the College of Psychologists of Ontario.


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