'Mental Health for All' Initiative Helps Prevent School Violence
'Mental Health through Schooling' experts introduce new toolkit for schools to improve students' mental health and well-being: #NEVERAGAIN
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students have inspired and motivated The Center for the Self in Schools to launch a nationwide initiative: Mental Health for All.
The Center for the Self in Schools has developed a "Mental Health for All Toolkit" for teachers, counselors, administrators, students and parents consisting of three (3) researched-based high-impact practices: Integrated Self (iSelf model), Student Success Predictor, and Self across the Curriculum.
We are inviting every school in the United States to utilize this toolkit of best practices to ensure the safety and well-being of every child in their care.
Drawing upon our over 30 years of counseling, teaching and research, we have found that school-aged children with psychological well-being have a lower risk of mental health disorders and physical health diagnosis and behaviors such as violence, anxiety, depression, obesity, cutting, substance abuse and bullying, among others. As such, psychological well-being is an important protective factor to impart in a child's life in preparation for college and careers, and for a positive life. Further, research demonstrates that young people can be taught psychological well-being by integrating it into the school experience.
The Mental Health for All Toolkit (MHT) provides frontline educators, students and parents with a new student well-being model based on the latest research in positive psychology, the psychology of well-being and student-centered learning.
Instead of our schools and communities being the victims of violence, they can be the source of teaching positive psychological health and well-being. We can institute newly researched best practices now with the commitment of concerned, compassionate and effective leaders. We can prevent incidences of youth violence toward our schools by teaching youth well-being through our schools.
Violence in and towards schools is a public health issue. We would like to see influential leaders use this most recent tragedy to call for a much bolder and broader policy of pro-active mental health education for everyone – every child attending a public school in America.
The toolkit challenges the National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, national and local education and political leaders, to support this bold initiative. Even as leaders explore every possible solution for the future, there are research based methods that schools can implement now to help prevent the tragedy that occurred in Parkland, Florida.
As experts on school-based mental health best practices and how to produce psychologically
well children and adolescents from their schooling experiences, The Center for the Self in Schools is uniquely positioned to offer help to all children.
Dr. Henry G. Brzycki and Elaine J. Brzycki, founders of The Brzycki Group & The Center for the Self in Schools and authors of the "Mental Health for All Toolkit", have provided leadership to the body of knowledge known as mental health outcomes from schooling. They have also published extensively in numerous publications and written two best-selling books.
To request this ground-breaking toolkit, please contact:
Dr. Henry G. Brzycki
Telephone: 814-753-2505
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.BrzyckiGroup.com
SOURCE The Brzycki Group & The Center for the Self in Schools
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