Art Station

Transforming Tools Together

Mental Health Screener for Depression and Anxiety

Meet Daniel:

The Lead Art and Design Near Peer

Welcome to the Art Design Station

Goals of the Art Station:

Make images that can be used in the background of the videos of autistic youth asking the mental health screening questions. These should reflect the mood, use watercolor and be fairly abstract and not realistic.
Later days of the workshop.

Make images that can be used to encourage the autistic youth after each question on the app. These can include words and images. They should be of hope.

These are questions that you will be making art for in the Design Workshop.

Work on these topics on Workshop Day 1.

Start with the Autism question then do the Anxiety or Depression in any order you want.

Day 1 Topics

TTT-DesignWorkshop-Sheets-Day2-MainQs1st.pdf

Day 2 Topics - Main PhQ and GAD questions.

First 7 pages.

Workshop Leader Script

Starting

Each participant and near peer pair will have a different topic. Pick up your paper and start collaborating with your near-peer to fill in the worksheet! Don’t worry if there’s not enough time today, we will let you take the paper home to continue to work on it. You will be able to photograph and send it in using the QR code and instructions on the worksheet.

Design Station Instructions

Tell them about the tools and supplies.

The benchmark- which is an idea by another autistic group. You will have your own ideas.

Begin and I am here to help and answer questions and co-create.

Near-Peer Script

Hey! It looks like we’ve been assigned PHQ-9 question number (__). Let’s check out the instructions and work together to express our ideas. I’m here to support you as we think about how to design a better, more relatable mental health screening tool.

What is next:

We are so excited that you shared your thoughts on the worksheets! Going forward, we will combine your drawings into animations and develop scripts for the acting from your ideas. We will come back to you to make the film which will have animations in the background helping to describe the emotions that you go through while you or someone you know is experiencing anxiety and depression. Your voice as an autistic youth sharing your ideas of what depression and anxiety look like will help others feel more connected to this mental health tool that we are transforming.

Ending:

Thank you for participating, just a reminder that if you felt like you didn’t have enough time to complete the worksheet, have your near-peer photograph it at this point. Feel free to take the worksheet home to continue working on it. You will be able to photograph and send it in using the QR code and instructions on the worksheet. If you’re not taking it home with you, please hand it to your near-peer, who will hand it to the workshop leader.

Supplies:

Blank Paper and Watercolor Paper: Always put the neer peer, fake name and PHQ9 or GAD 7 # on the blank paper.
Watercolor Paint
Brushes
Sharpie S Gel Pens Black
Pens
Pencils
Water Cups
Paper Towels
Colored Pencils
Colored Paper to cut
- for speech bubbles for what it feels like
- for text boxes of the question exact phrases.
Scissors
Digital Tools like photoshop and google slides for benchmarking that you can add to this slideshow
TTT Tablet, Phones, Computer for access to sites and internet for benchmarks and slides
TTT Phone for recording the images after creation

This is the storyboard worksheet.

Benchmarks

This is an animation made by Susan's college students that explains what anxeity disorder is. This was thier idea - you will have your own ideas of what it feels like. We would like to use this water color look and the black simple people drawings if we can.

Go to the EPIC Project Mental Health Videos

In this example from the Anxiety Animation benchmark, the creators felt like they were stuck.

Drawing with simple shapes is a good way to communicate.

This is a Storyboard from the Anxiety Animation benchmark.

Keeping the characters simple is helpful.

Explaining under each drawing what you intend helps the actors, animators and filmmakers to know what you meant.

If this is for film making, you can also help direct.

You can be humorous with your drawings. Even though this is a tough and complicated subject. you can write and draw what you think the questions feel like.

You can make drawings about how the questions make you or someone you know feel. This is an example from other people with depression and anxiety.

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