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Whole School Matters draft manuscript

Whole School Matters is the cornerstone booklet of the MindMatters resource suite. It sets out a whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing for educational sites with suggestions for implementation. The whole school approach involves using MindMatters in a comprehensive and culturally inclusive way involving leadership, school core teams, parents, students and the community.

The draft manuscript is provided below in Adobe Acrobat PDF format for download. The documents are draft versions and awaiting final approval. We welcome your feedback about the documents. Please select the Feedback button below to submit your comments.

Copyright

© Commonwealth of Australia 2010
This work is copyright. Provided acknowledgement is made to the sources, schools are permitted to copy material freely for communication with teachers, students, parents or community members. No part may be reproduced for any other use than that permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, without written permission from the Commonwealth of Australia.  Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the Commonwealth Copyright Administration, Attorney-General’s Department, Robert Garran Offices, National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600 or posted at http://www.ag.gov.au/cca

While all care has been taken in the preparation of this material, the Commonwealth accepts no liability for any injury or loss or damage arising from the use of, or reliance upon, the content of this publication. Furthermore the material herein does not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Health and Ageing nor of any mental health service provider.

Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holder of material used in the MindMatters materials. If accidental infringement has occurred, please contact the publisher.

MindMatters is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

Downloads

Full draft manuscript

Whole School Matters complete draft manuscript (PDF, 3.34 Mb)

Draft manuscript sections

Title page and contents pages (PDF, 232 Kb)

Introduction (PDF, 316 Kb)

Section 1 – Key concepts and rationale (PDF, 404 Kb)

• What is mental health and wellbeing?
• A Whole School Approach to mental health and wellbeing
• MindMatters, the WHO Model and students experiencing high support needs in mental health

Section 2 – Adolescent mental health and wellbeing – building resilience, protective and risk factors (PDF, 800 Kb)

• Protective factors and resilience
• Whole school protective factors
• Using protective factors in the school context
• Peer and student group protective factors
• Individual protective factors
• Positive self-perception
• Coping skills
• Positive sense of own identity
• Sense of personal choice
• Family and community protective factors
• Risk factors for mental health and wellbeing
• MindMatters risk factors
• A Whole School Approach to mitigating risk factors
• Providing a Continuum of Connection

Section 3 – Key enablers for the Whole School Approach to mental health and wellbeing (PDF, 1.04 Mb)

• Extending leadership and participation
• Increasing staff understanding of mental health and wellbeing
• Making links with other key initiatives
• Evidence based evaluation and data collection, analysis and action

Section 4 – Key dimensions of the Whole School Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing (PDF, 516 Kb)

• School ethos and environment
• Curriculum: teaching and learning
• Internal and external partnerships and services

Section 5 – Students experiencing high support needs in mental health (PDF, 412 Kb)

• Introduction
• Extending leadership and participation
• Developing staff knowledge and understanding
• Ethos, environment and policy

Section 6 – Critical incidents (PDF, 256 Kb)

• Critical incident planning
• Connections to the Whole School Approach

Section 7 – Getting started on the Whole School Approach (PDF, 352 Kb)

• MindMatters Professional Development
• Using the Professional Development activities

Professional Development Activities (PDF, 252 Kb)

Appendices (PDF, 1.37 Mb)

References (PDF, 252 Kb)

Glossary (PDF, 248 Kb)