"If you are just sick you could make your own chicken soup". But if it's a mental illness "you can't fix yourself". Teaching secondary school students about mental illness.

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dc.contributor.author Askell-Williams, Helen
dc.contributor.author Lawson, Mike Joseph
dc.contributor.author Murray-Harvey, Rosalind
dc.contributor.author Slee, Phillip T
dc.date.accessioned 2014-11-03T03:13:20Z
dc.date.available 2014-11-03T03:13:20Z
dc.date.issued 2006-11
dc.description Published version of the paper reproduced here with permission from the publisher. en
dc.description.abstract This paper reports a classroom based investigation into the MindMatters curriculum resource “Understanding Mental Illness” (UMI). We observed the teaching of the UMI module in three secondary classrooms. We measured students’ knowledge, attitudes and behavioural intentions in relation to mental illness before and after teaching of the UMI module. We also held focussed discussions with teachers about teaching the UMI module and teaching about mental illness and mental health in general. Paired sample t-tests on students’ knowledge, attitudes and behavioural intentions, showed statistically significant improvements in students’ scores from pre-teaching to post teaching. Students’ in-class comments also indicated their increasing awareness of issues related to mental illness. Discussions with teachers raised pedagogical issues such as, finding ways to teach about profound issues such as mental illness in non-trivial ways; accommodating differing levels of development of students’ conceptual understandings; and the value of stories for changing people’s knowledge and attitudes. Teachers highlighted a lack of teacher expertise about mental illness and the implications this has for integrating modules such as UMI across the curriculum. Teachers also indicated a need for frameworks of scope and sequence to guide teaching about UMI in particular, and mental health in general. en
dc.identifier.citation Askell-Williams, H., Lawson, M.J., Murray-Harvey, R. and Slee, P.T. (2006). 'If you are just sick you could make your own chicken soup. But if it's a mental illness - you can't fix yourself.' Teaching secondary school students about mental illness. In Proceedings of the AARE Annual Conference 2006. AARE Annual Conference 2006. Adelaide, SA. Nov 2006. en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2328/35058
dc.language.iso en
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dc.publisher Australian Association for Research in Education Inc en
dc.rights © 2006 the Authors, published by the Australian Association for Research in Education Inc. en
dc.rights.holder The Authors, published by the Australian Association for Research in Education Inc. en
dc.title "If you are just sick you could make your own chicken soup". But if it's a mental illness "you can't fix yourself". Teaching secondary school students about mental illness. en
dc.type Article en
local.contributor.authorOrcidLookup Askell-Williams, Helen: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1071-5216 en_US
local.contributor.authorOrcidLookup Lawson, Mike Joseph: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0175-3683 en_US
local.contributor.authorOrcidLookup Slee, Phillip T: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4455-1141 en_US
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