Students acquire the attitude, skills and knowledge necessary for achieving and maintaining mental health and wellness. Students study stress and its relationship to health and wellness and examine resources to prevent and manage stress as well as adaptive and maladaptive coping mechanisms related to stress. Students gain an appreciation for the complexity of a variety of mental health conditions including dementia and depression and the medical and integrative health approaches and resources available to manage them. Students examine the impact of mental health as it pertains to the individual, family, peers and community.

Prerequisite: HSS1010: Health Services Foundations

Using information on Teen Health and Wellness website over view and familiarize your self with different areas of mental health topics: https://teenhealthandwellness.com/subject/22

To access this site you might need to create and account with LEARN ALBERTA.click on this link below to create your account:

http://www.learnalberta.ca/UsingThisSite.aspx?HelpItem=HelpStudents&lang=en

When you are asked to input the Jurisdictional username and password use the following:

Username: LA06

Password: 4105

Here is a list of Mental Health topics:

· Addictive Personality

· Antisocial Behaviour

· Anxiety and Panic Attacks

· Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression

· Depression and Mood Disorders

· Eco-anxiety

· Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

· Phobias

· Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

· Schizophrenia

· Self-Harm

· Shoplifting and Theft

· Social Anxiety and Social Phobia

· Suicide

· The Teen Brain

Below I also included these topic in PDF format, incase you have difficulties accessing the Teen Health and Wellness website: