Understanding Mental Illness links to Health and Physical Education

Understanding mental illnesses

Exploring understandings of mental health/illness - page 17

Introducing the Understanding Mental Illness unit - page 18

Language brainstorm - page 18

Understanding what we mean by mental illness - page 19

Mental illness - the facts (handout) - pages 20-22

Learning the language of mental illness (worksheet) - pages 23-24

PD 5.1 - Human Development

Learners demonstrate self-management skills that enable them to make informed decisions for healthy living, and exhibit attitudes and values that promote personal health and wellbeing within family, personal and community relationships.

Experiences of mental illness

Video Understanding Mental Illness - group discussion of section 1 - page 26

Homework - reading information sheets - page 28

Video discussion sheet - page 29

Eating disorders (information) - pages 30-32

Depression (information) - pages 33-35

Anxiety disorders (information) - pages 36-38

Bipolar mood disorder (information) - pages 39-41

Schizophrenia (information) - pages 42-44

PD 5.1 - Human Development

Learners demonstrate self-management skills that enable them to make informed decisions for healthy living, and exhibit attitudes and values that promote personal health and wellbeing within family, personal and community relationships.

Mental illnesses – the same but different

Specialist groups - recording information about specific illnesses - pages 45-46

Sharing the pieces or follow up quiz - page 46

Answers for quiz - page 47

Understanding anxiety disorders (record sheet) - page 48

Understanding depression (record sheet) - page 49

Understanding schizophrenia (record sheet) - page 50

Understanding eating disorders (record sheet) - page 51

Understanding bipolar mood disorder or manic depression (record sheet) - page 52

Mental illness. How much do you understand? Quiz (worksheet) - page 53

Community attitude survey (template) - page 55

Survey record sheet - page 56

PD 5.1 - Human Development

Learners demonstrate self-management skills that enable them to make informed decisions for healthy living, and exhibit attitudes and values that promote personal health and wellbeing within family, personal and community relationships.

Changing people’s minds & attitudes

Survey collation - pages 57-59

Video - changing people’s attitudes - pages 59-61

Script your own advertisement - pages 61-62

Exploring attitudes - page 62

The kindness of strangers (handout) - page 63

Key communication messages (handout) - page 64

PD 5.1 - Human Development

Learners demonstrate self-management skills that enable them to make informed decisions for healthy living, and exhibit attitudes and values that promote personal health and wellbeing within family, personal and community relationships.

Labels are for jars

Labels - pages 65-67

Option A: If the shoe fits - pages 65-66

Option B: Labelling jars not people - page 66

Fact, fear, furphy or fiction - a summary quiz - page 67

Creative writing – uses ‘A thesaurus of madness’ - page 68

Newsletter - page 68

Labels (worksheet) - page 69

Jam-jars (worksheet) - page 70

Fact, fear, furphy or fiction (worksheet) - pages 71-72

A thesaurus of madness (handout) - page 73

PD 5.1 - Human Development

Learners demonstrate self-management skills that enable them to make informed decisions for healthy living, and exhibit attitudes and values that promote personal health and wellbeing within family, personal and community relationships.

Seeking help, finding support

Identifying the need for support - page 75

Local services - page 75

Care of the seriously mentally ill in Australia - page 76

Something is not quite right - getting help early for mental illness (handout) - pages 77-78

Scenario cards (handouts) - pages 79-82 - 8 scenarios provided

Care of the seriously mentally ill in Australia (handout) - pages 83-86

PD 5.1 - Human Development

Learners demonstrate self-management skills that enable them to make informed decisions for healthy living, and exhibit attitudes and values that promote personal health and wellbeing within family, personal and community relationships.

Taking actions, creating options

Getting help - pages 87-88

Sample questions - page 88

Actions & reactions - page 89

Discussion - options for help seeking - page 89

PD 5.1 - Human Development

Learners demonstrate self-management skills that enable them to make informed decisions for healthy living, and exhibit attitudes and values that promote personal health and wellbeing within family, personal and community relationships.

HP 5.1 - Individual and Community
Health and Safety

Learners develop and act on a personal health and safety plan and evaluate community initiatives to promote health and safety.

Face to face

Guest speaker - page 90

Reflecting upon the new information - page 91

Selected video - personal experiences of mental illness - page 91

Sample questions - considering prior and current beliefs and understandings - page 91

PD 5.1 - Human Development

Learners demonstrate self-management skills that enable them to make informed decisions for healthy living, and exhibit attitudes and values that promote personal health and wellbeing within family, personal and community relationships.

Resource list

Resource list - websites, videos & brochures - page 92

PD 5.1 - Human Development

Learners demonstrate self-management skills that enable them to make informed decisions for healthy living, and exhibit attitudes and values that promote personal health and wellbeing within family, personal and community relationships.