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Beyond Blue: Depression Awareness for Adolescents

Beyond Blue: Depression Awareness for Adolescents. Whitney Taylor. Form 1: Instructional Situation.

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Beyond Blue: Depression Awareness for Adolescents

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  1. Beyond Blue: Depression Awareness for Adolescents Whitney Taylor

  2. Form 1: Instructional Situation • Course Goal: to educate high school students about the basics of depression. Topics will include symptoms and risk factors, biology, identifying healthy life style choices, ways to find help/resources, and mental health stigma • Number of Students: approx 15-25 • Educational Background: high school, 10-12th grade

  3. Form 1: Instructional Situation • Setting: school health classroom • Timing:unit of a general health curriculum class, 5 week unit, seven 90 min sessions, one 60 min session • Constraints: large class size, language and literacy barriers, availability of instructional materials • Resources: health teacher, classroom, video/DVD machine, overhead projector, computer, art materials, guest speakers

  4. Form 2b: Performance Expectations: Health Behaviors • Defines risk factors and symptoms of clinical depression • Illustrates the basic biology of depression • Identifies healthy lifestyle choices to prevent depression/depressed moods and promote wellness • Locates sources of help for those who are depressed • Articulates the meaning of stigma as it applies to mental illness

  5. Form 2b • Defines risk factors and symptoms of clinical depression a) identify risk factors for clinical depression b) identify symptoms of clinical depression (based on DSM-IV) and how they affect physical, social, and emotional well being c) distinguish between normal situational upsets and actual clinical depression d) able to define co-morbidity and give examples e) differentiate between clinical depression and other mood disorders

  6. Form 2b: Literature Search and Interview • Literature search on adolescent mental health literacy • Interview with a psychiatrist • Interview with a health teacher from an urban charter school

  7. Form 3A: Competency Based Learning, Objectives • Objective: Defines risk factors and symptoms of depression When given: vignettes/ case studies of patients suffering from mood disorders The student will be able to: identify risk factors and symptoms of clinical depression, differentiate between clinical depression and other mood disorders, and distinguish between normal upsets and clinical depression, define co-morbidity and give examples

  8. Form 3b: Competency Based Learning Objectives: Skill, Knowledge and Attitudes

  9. Form 3c: Competency Based Learning Objectives, Entry Level

  10. Form 4: Course Evaluation Plan • Entry Test: True/False Depression Myths and Facts Quiz • Progress Test: Vignettes and Case Studies • Post Tests: Depression/Mood Disorders Pamphlet, Multiple Choice & Vignettes Assessment

  11. Form 5: Activities Plan • Lectures: - Risk Factors & Symptoms of Depression and Other Mood Disorders -Depression Etiology: Schools of Thought • Activities: -Quick write: In what way, if any, has mental illness impacted your life? -Group case analysis role play -Debate on schools of thought -Guided group discussion: What does depression feel like?

  12. Form 6: Course Syllabus • In-Class Activities (90 min) - Quick write: In what way, if any, has mental illness impacted your life? - Discussion: What does depression feel like? -Lecture: Risk Factors & Symptoms of Depression -Break -Group case analysis role play

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