Senior Honors Project Spring '23

Mental health in Highschool Students

Daylan Martinez

Santa Clara Pueblo

In the article "How places names impact the way we see language" he expresses the importance of the land & how the names make us connect to the land in many different ways. "Place names and the stones behind them define how we perceive and connect to landscape. "

The article is saying don't be afraid to be who you are. Never be afraid to talk your language, or take part in your culture. Always introduce yourself in your native language. Also always say where from. Color dont matter everyone is one. Without our language and culture we are nothing.

Citations

Armstrong, Jeanette. "Sharing One Skin: The Okanagan Community," in Jerry Mander and

Edward Goldsmith (eds), The Case Against the Global Economy. San Francisco, CA,

Sierra Club Books, 1996. Pp 460-470.

Toastie, B. "How place names impact the way we see landscape." High Country News: Know

the West, 1 May 2022,

https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.5/people-places-how-place-names-impact-the-way-we-see-landsc

ape. Accessed 27 August 2022.

Racial Trauma In the News-Tips for Coping-

Knowing what is going on in the world has its advantages and disadvantages. Because of social media we see these happen and some people could get second hand trauma from just watching the video or hearing about it on social media .

Seeing the bad in the world could stay with you forever and take a toll on you. The good thing is being able to understand the current situations taking place right now, and instead of not having any idea of what is happening. Recording the types of feelings there for second hand trauma, also giving us an acronym or steps to do to help.

Mental health challenges high-school students face post covid-

That thirty-seven percent through forty-four percent of highschool students faced low mental health during post covid like losing a loved one, parents separating, abuse from parents, parents losing a job. Life during and after covid was very difficult for students in high school. Because they lost the extracurricular activities homecoming, proms, and graduation also not having those helping hands that were there to assist him before.

There was many complications that the students went through during post covid. Highschool students lived during one of the most hardest times in the world and everyone lost something, making things hard on them. The students in high school not having they support they used to rely on to make them feel better like friends, teachers, and coaches.

Caring for the Mental Health Needs of Children and Young People- (YouTube video)

Showing the ways bad mental health makes you feel, act, see the changes in yourself. Having unsatisfactory mental health affects your schoolwork, attitude, and the way you talk to people. Also, the people who are around you the most like in the video his teacher went out of her way to assist him to get the assistance he needed and was scared to get. Then how getting the help you need will make you happier about yourself and give you more confidence. Counselors are very trustworthy and you will enjoy your time communicating with them about what is going on with you.

The negative effects it has on you as a person when you do not seek the assistance you need. Not getting the help you need will lower your positive mindset, make you a person you do not want to be, and start forming negative coping skills. People who really know you will take the time of their day to make sure you are doing well, and want to be a better individual. The counselors are good people and very good at what they do, so let them help you to better yourself.

1st) Elizza LeJeune. “Racial Trauma In the News-Tips for Coping”, no date.

https://www.pinerest.org/newsroom/articles/racial-trauma-in-the-news/

2nd) Amy Henke. “Mental Health Challenges high-school students face post covid”, May 16,2022

https://www.chnola.org/news-blog/2022/may/mental-health-challenges-high-school-students-fa/

3rd) “Caring for the Mental Health Needs of Children and Young People”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmSinPMVU2U. HNEkidshealth. October 25,2016

Daylan Mtz. Walking November 12 (1st Article)

Daylan Mtz. Bad Grades. November 12 (1st Article)

Daylan Mtz. Stressed. November 12 (3rd Article)

Daylan Mtz. Staying Active & Hanging with the Boys. November 12 (11th Article)

Daylan Mtz. Holding In the Pain. November 12th (12th Article)

Asylums War Hospital Scheme-

In January 1915 the Army council estimated a required 56,000 beds for the hurt and wounded troops in World War I. They moved out the civilian inmates out from the asylums to provide the assistance and a place to stay for the soldiers. The condition rates were very critical in the asylums which led to a very high death rate. Asylums were used for camps or bases for the soldiers fighting in the war.

They moved out the mental ill people who were in the asylums to make basically a camp for the soldiers. The Army had to use all the resources they could get to help win the war which comes with having a shelter. But even thought they did this they hardly survived because of the low living conditions they were dealing with. Hardly any soldiers survived.

Mental Health Act-

The Act states that you can be taken to hospital, kept there, and treated against your wishes. This can only happen if you have a mental disorder that puts you, or others, at risk. You should only be detained under the Mental Health Act if there are no other ways to keep you, or others, safe. Being detained under the Mental Health Act is sometimes called being ‘sectioned’, because the law has different sections.

Depending on what your mental disorder is and how bad you act. This can determine how long your locked up or “treated against your wishes” if you are going to hurt someone or yourself. Like say you are hearing voices or seeing things the asylums could choose how to treat you. They will keep if you think you are mental ill problems are bad.

What is Mental Health? (YouTube video)

Mental Health you cope with others and ups and downs in life. There is difficulties throughout our life and positive impacts this is what causes us to be depressed, stressed or have anxiety. We as humans need a strong support system to thrive off of we need that positive energy around us.

Without a strong mental health we will struggle and over time possibly develope unhealthy coping skills it just depends on the choice you choose to make. I know that having a lot of homework, losing a loved one or not having money will cause these types of mental health. Mental health varies on the person and how they deal with it.

1st) Roberts, Andrew. Mental Health History Timeline, http://studymore.org.uk/mhhtim.htm.