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TES Global

Tes: Emotions

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint presentation contains art pieces that deal with different emotions. Students will analyze the art pieces and the associated emotions.
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Kids Helpline: Empowering Young People to Ask for Help

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Being able to ask for help when you need it is an essential skill. This article discusses how to overcome the challenges kids and teens face when asking for help.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Trauma

For Students Pre-K - K
Trauma can destroy a child's sense of self-worth and confidence in their abilities. Developing new skills, such as balance and focus, can help build it back. These resources offer a variety of ideas to help build a child's self-esteem...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Dorothea Dix

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887 CE), most noted for her report to the Massachusetts legislature about the inhumane conditions under which the mentally ill are held in prisons. Her report led...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Dorothea Dix 1802 1887

For Students 3rd - 8th
Best know for her work with the mentally ill. Dorthea Dix also was very involved in the work of prison reform. Here, you can read her fascinating life story.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes; it explores mental health and repressed memory, and Holmes uses the concept of the unconscious mind throughout his works.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Almost Sunrise: Lesson Plan Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term many young scholars may know. This lesson invites student to gain a deeper understanding of moral injury and develop greater empathy for the challenges returning veterans face. Using five...
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WebMD

Medicine Net: Schizophrenia

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from MedicineNet.com gives some great information about the mental disease, schizophrenia. Describes what it is, information on treatment, side affects, and causes along with answering several commonly asked questions about the...
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Diffen

Diffen: Psychopath vs. Sociopath

For Students 5th - 9th
Start learning about two anti-social personality disorders with the comparison chart for psychopathy and sociopathy. Then extend the learning with an article and video about these mental illnesses.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Catcher in the Rye" by j.d. Salinger

For Students 9th - 10th
From a mental institution, where he is receiving treatment, Holden Caulfield recounts the two day period after he is kicked out of school. Selected (8) reading passages (grades 8-12) to pair with "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D....
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Intellectual Disability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Informative article for Kids from Kids Health provides facts on intellectual and developmental delays and disabilities. Read about the causes and what its like for kids with special needs.
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Other

Healthline: Dependent Personality Disorder

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource tool that provides relevant information on Dependent Personality Disorder concentrating on symptoms, causes, and treatment with links to articles and related topics.
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Healthline: Avoidant Personality Disorder

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource tool that provides relevant information on Avoidant Personality Disorder concentrating on symptoms, causes, and treatment with links to articles and related topics.
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Healthline: Antisocial Personality Disorder

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource tool that provides relevant information on Antisocial Personality Disorder concentrating on symptoms, causes, and treatment with links to articles and related topics.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Como Puedo Mejorar Mi Autoestima?

For Students 9th - 10th
How do you feel about yourself? Read this article to find out what is Self-Esteem, Self-Esteem problems and steps to improve Self-Esteem.
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National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Diseases of the Mind

For Students 9th - 10th
A virtual exhibit to expose the early history of psychiatry in the United States through the year 1900.
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Other

Bupa: Schizophrenia

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the British United Provident Association contains great information on the mental illness known as schizophrenia. The information touches on symptoms (both positive and negative), media myths, diagnosis, causes, treatment,...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Martin Seligman on Positive Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
As Martin Seligman discusses the state of psychology today, he introduces the eleventh reason to be positive. [23:46]
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Other

American Psychiatric Nurses Association

For Students 9th - 10th
Homepage for an association of professional nurses working in psychiatric settings. Library resources include audio/visual, books, online journals and publications, and research projects. Educational and professional resources and web...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Understanding the School Counselor Parent Connection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
School counselors work with teachers, administrators, and parents to help students with schoolwork and their social/emotional development.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:what Is Depression?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine teenage depression: what it's all about, how it feels and ways to deal with it.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Dealing With Addiction

For Students 9th - 10th
Having an addiction can not only be unhealthy and expensive but it can also change who you are as a person. Since teenagers are still developing physically and mentally this can have a detrimental effect on who they will become. This...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: How to Make Homework Less Work

For Students 9th - 10th
Most teens will never learn to love homework, but with a little help they can make it less of a burden. This site shows how to work smarter not harder when it comes to homework by easing its effect both mentally and physically. This...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Gassing Operations

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the Nazi use of poison gas to eliminate "undesirable" persons, whether because of their physical or mental health, or because of their religious or ethnic dispositions.

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