Webinar 1: Mental Wellness
Year 12 Wellbeing Webinar Series - Mental Wellness-20200821 0235-1.mp4<< Recording available here
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1. Mental Wellness
Proactive and practical approaches to maintaining and improving your mental wellbeing
· The wellbeing spectrum
· Bucket fillers and emptiers
o Mood Foods
o Exercise
o Sleep Hygiene - daily rhythms
o Relational wellbeing
Fact Sheet 1
fact sheet 1.pdfDiet
The Food & Mood Centre (https://foodandmoodcentre.com.au) at Deakin University is a world-leading, multi-disciplinary research centre that aims to understand the complex ways in which what we eat influences our brain, mood, and mental health. We are a team of world-class researchers from various backgrounds, studying the food-mood relationship at various levels, from microbiology to public health.
EXERCISE
Australia's Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines and the Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/health-pubhlth-strateg-phys-act-guidelines
Australia’s Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines for adults and older Australian’s and the Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years; and the Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Young People including links to brochures and other resources.
brochure-24hr-guidelines-5-17yrs.pdf
Sleep
Free e-book on teenage sleep: Understanding and helping the sleep of 12 - 20 year olds.
Bruck, Dorothy (2006) Teenage sleep: Understanding and helping the sleep of 12 - 20 year olds. Wellness Promotion Unit, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. http://vuir.vu.edu.au/467/
Prof Russell Foster Ted Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWULB9Aoopc) is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we do with one-third of our lives. In this talk, Foster shares three popular theories about why we sleep, busts some myths about how much sleep we need at different ages -- and hints at some bold new uses of sleep as a predictor of mental health.
Positive Relationships
Fact sheet from ReachOut.com on Positive psychology: https://schools.au.reachout.com/articles/positive-psychology-relationships
There are many resources in the DETs respectful relationship program. Some are aimed at teachers for on site delivery but are more than accessible to students at home. https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/Resource/LandingPage?ObjectId=05140241-6934-4130-97a7-0446282decaf
More tips available at this website https://www.actionforhappiness.org/
